Dilmini Weerasinghe

Malnutrition crisis in northern Nigeria: mobilization is urgently needed to avoid further deaths

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Abuja 25th July 2025– Northern Nigeria is currently facing an alarming malnutrition crisis. In Katsina State for instance, where Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been present since 2021, the teams are seeing an ever-increasing number of malnourished children in its therapeutic feeding centers, with increasingly severe conditions and higher mortality rates. In … Read more

Premature babies fight for their lives in north Gaza

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Gaza, Palestine- As prematurely born babies fight for their lives, medical teams in Gaza lack essential equipment such as ultrasounds, incubators, medical supplies, and even premature infant formula, to keep them alive. From the MSF-supported Al-Helou hospital in northern Gaza, Dr. Joanne Perry shares her experience treating premature babies in the facility’s neonatal intensive care … Read more

Mozambique: Rise of violence is increasingly compromising access to healthcare in Cabo Delgado

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Pemba, 16 July 2025– As Cabo Delgado experiences an alarming rise in violence, access to healthcare for communities in vulnerable circumstances is being severely compromised. Nearly eight years of conflict in northern Mozambique has already take a huge toll on people living in the province, where more than 400,000 people are displaced. Fighting and insecurity … Read more

MSF statement on Congress’ rescission of US aid funding

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MSF remains committed to providing global health and humanitarian aid, but we can’t do it all alone. The US Congress’ decision to pull back around $8 billion it had previously promised for foreign assistance will exacerbate an already dire situation for people caught in conflict and crisis all over the world, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins … Read more

Hebron: Never ending violence by Israeli settlers and military psychologically scars its Palestinian community

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Hebron, Palestine- The constant fear of aggression and violence, committed by Israeli settlers and armed forces, takes a massive toll on the mental health of Palestinians in the West Bank, especially those living in Hebron’s southern countryside like Masafer Yatta. There, the daily threats of forcible transfer, injury, and as we have seen in recent … Read more

Ethiopia: MSF releases findings of internal review into 2021 Tigray killing of three staff members

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Nairobi / Madrid, 15 July 2025 — Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published the findings of an internal review into the brutal killing of three of its staff members — María Hernández Matas, Tedros Gebremariam Gebremichael, and Yohannes Halefom Reda — in central Tigray, Ethiopia, on 24 June 2021. The review confirmed that … Read more

Rwanda: MSF welcomes the release of WHO guidelines for HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir

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Kigali, Rwanda: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the release of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) HIV prevention guidelines for lenacapavir at the International AIDS Society Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. Lenacapavir has the potential to transform the HIV prevention landscape. Current medical HIV prevention options include oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the dapivirine vaginal ring … Read more

Gaza: Acute malnutrition reaches all-time high in two MSF facilities

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing a sharp and unprecedented rise in acute malnutrition among people in Gaza, Palestine. In Al-Mawasi clinic, in southern Gaza, and in the MSF Gaza City clinic in the north, we are seeing the highest number of malnutrition cases ever recorded by our teams in the Gaza Strip. A … Read more

Chad: Water crisis intensifies amid soaring temperatures and shrinking funds

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Faced with deepening gaps in international aid and rising needs, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is increasingly stepping in to provide life-saving water and sanitation services for hundreds of thousands of refugees and local residents across eastern Chad. With particularly high temperatures in recent months, the daily search for clean water has become a relentless struggle … Read more

Pakistan: Afghan refugees fear seeking medical care

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Balochistan, Pakistan- “Since the deportations were announced, we live in constant anxiety,” says an Afghan refugee and father of two girls, while he visits a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Balochistan, Pakistan. He describes how Afghan refugee communities are gripped by fear. “We avoid going out due to fear of arrest. Families are afraid to … Read more