Lipi Upadhyay 
In one of the largest missile attacks on Ukraine, the country’s largest children’s hospital, Okhmatdyt Children’s hospital, was hit on 8 July 2024, resulting in deaths and injuries. Children with serious medical conditions, some requiring critical life support are waiting for evacuation or re-hospitalisation in other parts of Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital near the destroyed building in Kyiv, according … Read more
Adré, Chad – June 27, 2024 – As the rainy season begins in Chad, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is significantly scaling up its activities in eastern Chad for refugees who fled the war in Sudan. Our teams have launched a mass distribution of essential life-saving items such as plastic sheeting, mosquito nets, and … Read more
MSF is responding to a new measles outbreak in DR Congo, where ensuring complete vaccination in remote equatorial forests is a formidable logistical challenge. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) teams in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are responding to a new measles outbreak in the Ingende health zone in Equateur province by treating and vaccinating children, achieving a vaccination rate of … Read more
Voices of El Geneina by MSF on on Exposure
Jerusalem, 5th July 2024– As the European Gaza Hospital has shut down due to new evacuation orders, Nasser Hospital, the last comprehensive hospital in south Gaza, risks being overwhelmed with mass casualties and wounded patients, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Meanwhile, MSF teams working in the hospital are seeing acute shortages of medical supplies, leaving … Read more
The patent withdrawal is a result of an unprecedented investigation by South Africa’s Competition Commission into J&J We welcome today’s news that following the Competition Commission’s investigation initiation into anti-competitive practice, J&J has officially withdrawn its secondary patents in South Africa on the lifesaving TB drug bedaquiline, opening up generic competition in South Africa. Candice … Read more
As an international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has repeatedly witnessed how the world’s most vulnerable people are left without access to the lifesaving medicines, diagnostics tests and vaccines they need. Ensuring access to these medical products requires access to information throughout their life cycle, from the R&D stages to when … Read more
In recent weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) facilities in northern Nigeria have recorded an extraordinary increase in admissions of severely malnourished children with life-threatening complications, with two times more admissions than last year in some locations. This is horrifying, as the high influx of patients, and the increase in acute malnutrition that accompanies it, is … Read more
Names in this article have been changed to protect anonymity. “I wish for death,” says Umm Khattab, a Syrian refugee who has called a flimsy tent along the northeast border of Lebanon home for years. “We live in constant anxiety and terror. Death has become more merciful than living here.” Her words capture the stark … Read more
The extreme escalation of conflict, indiscriminate violence, and severe restrictions on humanitarian access in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have forced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend medical humanitarian activities in the townships of Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw. MSF ran 14 mobile clinics in northern Rakhine providing essential medical services to all communities, including Rakhine, Rohingya and … Read more