Efforts respected traditional practices to improve medical care within the territory. Instead of hospital beds, hammocks serve as resting places for patients treated at the Auaris health center in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (YIL), in the Brazilian Amazon. Anyone walking around the site – which was renovated and expanded through a partnership between Médecins Sans … Read more
MSF healthcare facility was hit during an airstrike on Wednesday 3 December, in the morning hours, in the town of Pieri, Jonglei State, South Sudan. After the facility was hit, and the gunship helicopter left, MSF teams found bullets that hit the infrastructure within the facility. After Pieri, MSF teams witnessed additional airstrikes in Lankien, … Read more
Launched in 2014, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) began its project in Beira, Mozambique, to respond to the urgent medical needs of key populations at higher risk of HIV, including sex workers, adolescents, men who have sex with men, and transgender people. The initiative extended along the corridor from Beira to Tete, reaching into neighbouring Malawi … Read more
Farzana’s Journey Farzana, 30, from Faryab province, northern Afghanistan, arrived at the MSF-supported Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Abo Ali Sina Hospital in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh province, with her four-month-old son, Umar. Their journey had been long, filled with uncertainty, and marked by desperate attempts to find the right medical help. My son was sick, and … Read more
Patna, Bihar – December 1, 2025: This World AIDS Day, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) India, in collaboration with Bihar State AIDS Control Society (BSACS) and Guru Gobind Singh Hospital (GGSH), unveiled a wall mural at Garima Ki Kiran Clinic, the advanced HIV centre within GGSH. The mural carries a message to dispel myths … Read more
At Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we believe that understanding our patients goes far beyond their medical symptoms. That’s why we introduced the Social Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) in our Advanced HIV project in Patna, Bihar, in April 2023, a powerful tool that helps us see the whole picture of a patient’s life, challenges and … Read more
Faced with the urgent needs of people who have been displaced by the latest escalation in fighting in Fizi territory, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as well as the departure of several humanitarian organisations after cuts to international humanitarian funding and health services, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started two joint emergency responses … Read more
One month after RSF takeover of El Fasher, displaced people survive in precarious conditions while others remain blocked or unaccounted for MSF patients in Tawila describe mass killings, torture, and kidnappings for ransom in El Fasher and along escape routes. Their stories confirm fears for those still missing. MSF continues to expand its capacities in … Read more
Governments must act now to ensure no child is left behind in the fight against this deadly disease. Copenhagen, 18 November 2025 – At the World Conference on Lung Health this week, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released data from its operational research highlighting that using the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended treatment decision algorithms, for … Read more
In the spring of 2025, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) decided to join forces with French association Utopia 56 to take part in coastal patrols in the north of France. Since the start of these joint activities, the MSF team has met more than 1,800 migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who were survivors of shipwrecks or … Read more