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Sierra Leone: Nurses and midwives’ new skills revitalize health system

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Forty-seven nurses and midwives have returned home to Sierra Leone to take up jobs in hospitals and health centres across the country after successfully completing a two-year diploma in Ghana. The return of these upskilled medical staff will boost Sierra Leone’s efforts to recover from the devastating blow to its health service caused by the […]

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Northeast Nigeria: ‘The conflict is intensifying and the needs are massive’

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Interview with Luis Eguiluz, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in Nigeria since 2017 on the ongoing humantiarian crisis inthe northeast of the country.  You arrived in Nigeria in September 2017; do you think the situation for the population in Borno has improved since then? After more than 10 years of conflict […]

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Lebanon: Providing hospital care for vulnerable communities in Bar Elias

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Recent protests in Lebanon have highlighted the growing economic challenges faced by people across the country. Although the situation has worsened considerably over recent months, these challenges have been felt for years by different sections of Lebanese society. Getting hold of affordable medical care, for instance, has long been a particular problem for vulnerable people […]

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‘It was the first time I had seen someone in person so viscerally affected by war’: Care amid conflict in Afghanistan

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For almost two decades, active conflict has made life extremely difficult for people in Afghanistan. In addition to those who have been directly impacted by violence, many others can’t even access basic healthcare. Hazards such as landmines, bombs, active fighting and the danger of being caught in crossfire can make simply travelling to or from […]

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Northwest Syria : Advancing frontlines reduce access to hospitals in Idlib

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The military offensive carried out by the Government of Syria and its allies in southern Idlib continues, further worsening an already critical situation for the population in Northwest Syria. In the space of two months – December 2019 and January 2020 – nearly 390,000 people have fled from their homes or from the camps they were […]

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‘Remain in Mexico’ policy: Devastation continues one year later

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One year since the United States implemented its “Remain in Mexico” policy, tens of thousands of asylum seekers are trapped in danger in Mexico, facing daily violence and dealing with the mental health toll of constant risk and uncertainty, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on January 30. “The […]

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Lesvos: Greece denies healthcare to children n Moria camp

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In Moria camp, on the island of Lesvos, the Greek government is deliberately depriving at least 140 children with chronic, complex and life-threatening diseases of adequate medical care. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on the Greek government to act on these grave medical concerns and evacuate all severely ill children to the […]

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Tuberculosis: MSF protests price of lifesaving drug as J&J release earnings

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York today, demanding the pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) make the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline available for all people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) for no more than a dollar a day. The price of this crucial drug […]

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