In a new humanitarian brief for the 2021 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report, MSF medical humanitarians from around the world and across disciplines share their experiences with how climate change has likely exacerbated health and humanitarian crises.
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Northern Syria is experiencing its most severe recorded wave of COVID-19 yet, with needs fast outpacing limited oxygen supplies and health facilities running out of testing kits. In the northwest the health system is already unable to cope, while in the northeast the virus is spreading at a worrying pace, the international medical humanitarian organization […]
Read More… from Northern Syria: Health system overwhelmed in most severe COVID-19 outbreak yet
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on governments to publicly commit to monthly COVID-19 vaccine redistribution targets by end of October 2021. Ottawa, 06 October 2021 – A new report by MSF warns that millions of people are at risk of dying from COVID-19 if high-income countries, a handful of which are hoarding an estimated […]
Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in South Sudan this year, affecting more than 400,000 people so far, according to United Nations estimates, while the rainy season continues. Many of the hardest hit communities are in Jonglei State, where wetlands and tributaries of the White Nile overflowed as seasonal rains arrived earlier than usual. In […]
Read More… from South Sudan: Flooding puts lives in jeopardy
Missile attacks in the residential area of Rawdah Jadidah in Marib governorate on Sunday, October 3, 2021, have injured multiple civilians, and killed at least four people, including two young children, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF staff working in the emergency department of Marib General Hospital, in conjunction with other hospital staff, treated […]
Read More… from Yemen: MSF deeply concerned over civilians affected by conflict in Marib
The fight against cancer has become a major health issue in Mali. During Pink October, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is contributing to an information and action campaign aimed at encouraging as many women as possible to get screened in the capital’s health facilities. In late 2018, MSF teams began providing palliative care and […]
Read More… from Mali: Raising awareness of breast cancer screenings in Bamako
The new Multi-Purpose Reception & Identification Centre (MPRIC) on Samos island is an escalation of European migration policies aimed at deterring people from coming and punishing those who make it. Not only is it dangerous, but also harmful to people’s physical and mental wellbeing, as detailed in Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s recent report […]
Read More… from Samos, Greece: Inauguration of new prison like camp
Angumu is a mountainous area in Ituri province, in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), near the Ugandan border. It is a remote place and reaching the communities that live there can be challenging. The few roads that run through the mountain forest are reminiscent of dried river beds, uneven and full of loose stones […]
Read More… from DRC: The health benefits of community engagement in the northeast
Almost three months after suspending medical activities in two detention centres in Tripoli following a series of concerning incidents, Doctors Without Border/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has returned to work in these centres, to provide vital medical care for detained migrants and refugees. MSF has also resumed activities in a third detention centre, which it had […]
In the neighbourhood of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Ihsan Ali sits with his four children in their home. The 44-year-old man is enjoying the company of his family after weeks of having to isolate from them. Ihsan has had tuberculosis (TB) couple of times before, but most recently he was diagnosed with a multidrug-resistant […]
Read More… from Iraq: Tackling multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, one patient at a time