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Lebanon: Overlapping crises increase needs and worsen access to care

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Since late 2019, Lebanon has been grappling with its worst economic crisis in decades, social unrest and political turmoil. On top of that, and following the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of 2020, a major explosion tore through the capital, Beirut, in August. These overlapping crises have exacerbated people’s vulnerability and pushed […]

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Nigeria: Long malaria season claims lives in Borno

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Nigeria has some of the highest number of deaths from malaria worldwide. Usually, peak malaria season takes place during the rainy season from August to mid-October, when mosquitoes breed, after which patient numbers begin to decrease. This year, however, medical teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) working in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state have witnessed […]

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Afghanistan: Persistent insecurity amid ‘peace protest’

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The year 2020 has been considered a historic one for Afghanistan. In February, 20 years since the US-led invasion, the US signed a deal with the Islamic Emirate – otherwise known as the Taliban – to pave the way for a conditions-based withdrawal of US troops. In September, intra-Afghan talks between the Taliban and the […]

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Diseases, Epidemics and Pandemics

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Latest Facts • 1,320,100 vaccinations against measles • 59,400 people on first-line HIV anti-retroviral therapy • 4,970 people treated for meningitis • 10,384,000 outpatient consultations     Mass outbreaks of cholera, Ebola, measles and tuberculosis have shaken healthcare systems across several countries, including Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lebanon and Central African […]

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Recurring nightmare in Yemen: Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities

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Renewed conflict on the frontlines to the south of Hudaydah Port on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast has become some of the most intense in the country, and the number of civilians needing major war-trauma surgery is rising, says medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since October, the MSF trauma hospital in the […]

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War and Conflict

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Around one-quarter of our medical humanitarian assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict. Armed conflict devastates lives and destroys communities. Targeted, harassed and caught in hardship and poverty, people are forced into flight or to live under siege and face indiscriminate attacks. Access to basic needs such as food and medical care is often […]

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Northwest Syria: Displaced people prepare for another harsh winter

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As winter approaches in northwest Syria, the already harsh living conditions of more than two million displaced people are becoming even more difficult to deal with. People living in camps across the region face the prospect of leaking tents, mud-filled streets and freezing temperatures.   For many, it won’t be their first winter in such […]

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