On Sunday, Jan. 19, two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) workers were slightly injured when a rocket hit the MSF garage next to the Masisi General Referral Hospital (HGR) in the town of Masisi, North Kivu. On the same day, another rocket hit a latrine near the hospital. The hospital and the MSF staff […]
In recent days, the Masisi Territory of North Kivu province has been the scene of major clashes between the armed group M23/AFC and the Congolese army, backed by allied elements. These clashes have led to large population movements in the area – some 102,000 people in less than a week, according to United Nations Office […]
Esther is a mother of three sheltering at a camp for displaced people in North Kivu, a province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She and her family have fled war three times in recent months. “I had hope of returning and getting my life back,” she recently told Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières […]
Read More… from Eastern DRC: The human cost of global humanitarian funding gaps
“The most important thing you can do is let the world know what is happening here.” This recent plea from Dr. Abu Baker, a hospital director in the West Bank, is a familiar one for our teams at Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The simple request – to share the grave realities we […]
Through the power of smartphones, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is reshaping how we gather and share stories of people facing crises. In November, a group of MSF communications specialists completed the second mobile communication training in Nairobi, following a session in Geneva earlier this year. Over 25 communications specialists were trained to use […]
Read More… from Smartphones reshaping storytelling, MSF connection with local communities
Too many children with TB are neither tested nor treated, with many countries failing at the first hurdle: updating policy guidelines in line with WHO recommendations. A new report released by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), shows that children with tuberculosis (TB) continue to be left behind in the global effort to end the […]
Read More… from MSF calls for urgent action as governments and donors are failing children with TB
In a retrospective report published-on Monday, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that together with the Ministry of Health it had treated an unprecedented number of survivors and survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2023, and that this upward trend continued in the first months of 2024. The medical […]
Read More… from DRC: MSF publishes alarming figures on sexual violence admissions
Dr. Tejshri Shah, Director General of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Belgium and a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases, recently returned from North Kivu, an eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country at the epicenter of the current mpox epidemic in Africa. In this short piece, she emphasizes that containing […]
Read More… from “In Eastern DRC, mpox is just another challenge amid a torrent of vital problems”
On 13 August 2024, the Africa CDC declared the mpox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recognised the Africa CDC’s declaration and were relieved that the World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 August declared the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a […]
Esther, Rebecca, Tuliya and Daphrose are from the same family. Together, they fled the fighting between the M23 armed group and the Congolese army in North Kivu, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). For the past year and a half, the four women have been living in the Elohim […]
Read More… from DRC : “Displaced Lives” 4 women in Goma’s displaced camps