A year in pictures 2023

Pictures from a year of humanitarian response This collection of 58 images, taken between November 2022 and November 2023, highlights stories and voices from around the world where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working. Over the last 12 months, multiple acute humanitarian crises have emerged. Climate change continues to take a devastating toll on people’s … Read more

Afghanistan: MSF’s new project aims to fill critical gaps in the provision of paediatric and neonatal care

“I really don’t know the pain she’s going through, but I am here with her hoping she gets better soon,” says Farida, the mother of nine-month-old Hadia. For two days, Hadia has refused to eat anything, even her favourite fruit, bananas. Her mother took her to several health facilities and doctors, but her condition never … Read more

No safe place in Gaza as people are being crushed by intense, continuous bombing

Two months into the war, Israel’s unrelenting, indiscriminate strikes on Gaza have turned the north of the Strip into a pile of rubble and are now pounding the Middle Area and the south with increasing brutality. The suffering of Palestinians trapped in Gaza can no longer be put into words. With nearly the entire 2.2 … Read more

Noma: MSF joins survivors in celebrating inclusion in WHO neglected tropical diseases list

Amsterdam, 15 December 2023 – Three years into its campaign to have noma recognised as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomes the decision by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), to include noma in the WHO’s official list of NTDs. Following a … Read more

Pakistan: After responding to devastating floods in Dadu, MSF hands over medical activities to local health providers

In June 2022, extreme monsoon rains struck Pakistan and submerged more than one third of the country. The floods caused extensive destruction of crops and buildings, including health structures. People had to leave their unsafe homes and spend months living in camps, often without shelter, access to basic services, or clean drinking water and food. … Read more

Out of fear: Rohingya youth trapped in violence and despair

This thought-provoking 28-minute documentary is set in the sprawling camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the temporary home of an estimated one million Rohingya refugees. Over half of the refugees here are children, a new generation growing up in the shadows of pervasive fear and despair, their lives seemingly stopped in time. As you journey through … Read more

Hospitals in south Gaza overflowing with hundreds of injured as Israeli forces step up bombardment

Since the fragile truce in the Gaza Strip, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, collapsed on 1 December, aerial and ground attacks by Israeli forces have resulted in hundreds of people killed and injured. Two hospitals supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – Al-Aqsa in the Middle Area and Nasser in the south of the Strip – … Read more

Gaza: “It must all stop now.” Letter to UN Security Council

MSF International President Dr Christos Christou writes to the United Nations Security Council, asking they use their leverage and help stop the bloodshed being committed in Gaza. I am writing to you on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to implore you to do everything within your power to ensure an immediate and sustained ceasefire in … Read more

At COP28, more failure is not an option for vulnerable communities

Geneva, 23 November 2023 – Too little is being done to protect the most vulnerable people against the negative impacts of climate change, warns international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). World leaders gathering in Dubai for COP28 must take urgent measures to protect the health of the most affected communities. The world’s most vulnerable … Read more

“No one came to our rescue”: The new normal of EU migration policies in the Central Mediterranean

Rome, 22 November 2023 – With almost 2,200 children, women, and men reported missing or dead in the Central Mediterranean this year, 2023 has already earned the unenviable record of being the deadliest year on this migration route since 2017. In its new report, No one came to our rescue, the international medical organisation Doctors … Read more