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Afghanistan: Multiple barriers increase struggle for medical care

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Despite decades of international aid and investment, Afghans still struggle to access basic and emergency medical care due to insecurity, distance, cost and the fact that many health facilities lack the staff and equipment they need, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today on the release of its report Reality Check: Afghanistan’s neglected healthcare […]

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Idlib, Syria: MSF to scale up its response as tensions reach a new peak

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With thousands of people displaced by the military offensive on northwestern Syria’s Idlib province, international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is planning step up medical assistance and aid distributions in response to their escalating needs. MSF is also asking Turkish authorities to facilitate the transit of staff and essential supplies into northwest […]

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‘People were dying’: Witnessing first-hand the deadly impact of measles in places with low vaccine coverage

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Right now, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the few organizations on the ground responding to the world’s largest currently active outbreak of measles – which has already killed more than 6,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and continues to ravage different parts of the country. Nearly 75 per cent […]

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Bangladesh: MSF tackles measles outbreak in Rohingya refugee camps

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In a pink room decorated with white flowers at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Kutupalong field hospital in Bangladesh, a woman lies curled around her sleeping child. It could be a peaceful scene, except for the intravenous lines snaking up from each child’s arm to a saline drip. This is an isolation ward and all […]

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Water, waste and vaccination: Fighting cholera and typhoid in Zimbabwe

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  In Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, recurring outbreaks of cholera and typhoid fever are a pressing health concern. In many of the city’s suburbs, public water supply is unreliable, and leaking sewage pipes, pit latrines, and poor waste management contaminate the groundwater. Using innovative borehole technology and empowering communities to manage their own water points, Doctors […]

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‘It makes you cry to see it’: An MSF doctor in Syria describes the scene as people flee attacks in Idlib region

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A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor working in Deir Hassan camp, 30 kilometres west of Aleppo, describes the situation as hundreds of thousands of people flee an offensive by government forces on the last opposition-held area in Syria. “In the past week, the army has advanced rapidly through the countryside west of Aleppo. People weren’t […]

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Conflict in Syria: As government forces move into Idlib, ‘people are facing a desperate situation’

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In northwest Syria, airstrikes combined with a ground offensive conducted by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies have triggered a huge wave of displacement in the last opposition-held area in the country. With towns and camps west of Aleppo hit by shelling in recent days, roads are packed with cars and trucks as people […]

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Colombia: Venezuelan migrants face crossroads at border

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  Nearly 44,000 Venezuelans fleeing the economic and political crisis gripping their country have arrived in Arauca, northeastern Colombia, in recent years. Although they find what they need to survive there, many face precarious situations that are not being adequately addressed. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offer vital medical services in the Tame region’s […]

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US/Mexico: Migrations Policies’ Health Impacts

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New migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico are trapping many Central Americans in dangerous conditions, with severe consequences for their physical and mental health, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a report released today.   The report, No Way Out, is based on 480 interviews and […]

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