In 2022, we saw the effects of climate change and conflict on a scale we haven’t seen before. From natural disasters to the war in Ukraine, we witnessed the population of displaced people and migrants grow at an unprecedented rate. Our teams responded to various epidemics, from cholera to ebola. We cared for people […]
Read More… from 2022: A review of medical humanitarian work in photos
A small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile River’s current, on it sits an entire family of eight – the youngest just a baby. Where they will end up is hopefully not as bad as what they have left behind. On this small raft […]
The municipality of Trojes, a town in Honduras, bordering with Nicaragua, has of recent years become a key focal point on the migratory route. Since 2021, according to the Honduran National Migration Institute (INM), more than 100,000 people have passed through Trojes as part of their journey to the north of the American continent. […]
Read More… from Honduras: Medical-humanitarian assistance to migrants on their way north
Jawahira was referred to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Kandahar earlier this year from a clinic in Daikundi, central Afghanistan. “I used to visit private clinics, but instead of giving me TB medication, they usually just prescribed me painkillers,” she says. The cost of searching out treatment also took […]
Read More… from Afghanistan: MSF hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
Cholera cases are on the rise. This year, 30 countries have recorded cases of cholera. Although easy to prevent and treat, there are multiple reasons this deadly disease continues to spread around the world. We broke down what you should know about cholera in 2022. What is cholera? DRC: MSF opened a dedicated cholera treatment […]
It has been 12 days since the last confirmed Ebola case, a stillborn baby of a mother who survived the disease, was reported in Uganda. MSF has been responding to the outbreak of the Sudan Ebola virus variant since its declaration on Sept. 20 by building Ebola treatment centres and treatment units, providing support to the […]
Read More… from Uganda: Three questions with an MSF epidemiologist about ebola
Malnutrition is a persistent risk to children in Yemen. The country sees seasonal and annual peaks, usually linked to the lean season caused by the disruption of agricultural production in rural areas. This pattern was seen before the escalation of the war in late 2014, but it has worsened due to the direct and […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the Latvian authorities to immediately end the unlawful and arbitrary detention of migrants and asylum seekers in Latvia, which is having severe consequences on their mental and physical health. Currently, around 50 people are detained in two Latvian Immigration Detention Centers (IDCs), managed by the State Border […]
Read More… from Latvia: Serious medical issues caused by unlawful detention of migrants
It is 9 a.m. in the war-ravaged but still bustling city of Raqqa in northeast Syria. Fatina, who is originally from Aleppo, is lying on her bed in an MSF-supported Cholera Treatment Unit (CTU). She is still feeling weak, so a nurse is helping her drink an oral rehydration solution (ORS) from a cup as […]
In 2002, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams opened the first outpatient treatment centre offering free care to people living with HIV in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Twenty years later, while great progress has been achieved in the country, major gaps remain in testing and treatment, causing thousands […]
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