Lipi Upadhyay 
There are currently around 860,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Most of them live in Cox’s Bazar district. The activities which Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) carries out for these refugees are centralised around the so-called ‘mega camp’, a large collection of 26 camps. In recent years, barbed and razor wire fencing was erected. The living conditions … Read more
ADDIS ABABA – Health facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Of 106 health facilities visited by MSF teams between mid-December 2020 and early March 2021, nearly 70% had been looted, and more than 30% had … Read more
Opinion by Brice de le Vingne, head, MSF emergency desk One year ago, on 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic. At Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – where providing medical care during epidemics and pandemics is at the core of what we do – we faced dual challenges. … Read more
On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, a worldwide pandemic. Since January 2020, MSF teams around the world have been responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, in both countries where we’ve previously worked, and those we haven’t had to work in before. Meanwhile, we have also ensured people … Read more
We all want the power to invest in our wellbeing, to be able to take care of our emotional, physical and mental health. But without reliable information and appropriate tools, reasonable options and adequate support, it’s not always possible. Self-care is changing the face of healthcare. It focuses on equipping and entrusting people to take … Read more
Take charge of your own health by becoming more familiar with your body and monitoring it regularly. Here are a few things you can do to ensure your health stays on track: Download ‘Self-care tips: Managing your health’ CHECK YOUR MOVEMENT Ensure you’re moving your body adequately throughout the day—extended periods of time sitting can … Read more
AMSTERDAM – In the wake of the killing of one of its staff members and the injury of three others in Al-Hol camp for displaced people in northeast Syria, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses our shock and sadness at the incidents, and our profound concerns about the insecurity facing camp residents, two-thirds of whom are … Read more
Opinion by Muriel Boursier, MSF head of mission in Yemen Hamdi is not yet two years old, but this is already his second time as a patient at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Abs hospital, in northern Yemen. The first time he was five months old. Now, just over a year later, he … Read more
On 14 February 2021, the authorities in Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak. As one of the key medical organisations responding in the huge 2014 – 2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) immediately started mobilising a team of Ebola-experienced specialists to form the core of a response team. Anja Wolz is the Ebola Emergency … Read more
Since last December, the security and humanitarian situation has deteriorated rapidly in Central African Republic (CAR), as a coalition of armed groups, called Coalition des Patriotes pour le Changement (CPC), and the government, supported by UN military personnel and foreign troops, are clashing in the wake of presidential and general elections. After numerous offensives across the country, fighting … Read more