Kinshasa/Goma/Brussels, 20 February 2025 – A staff member from international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been critically injured after shots hit the MSF base in Masisi town, in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province, on the morning of 20 February. A child who had sought refuge with his family in … Read more
Many women and children in Baidoa, Somalia, have to undertake journeys of hundreds of miles to reach medical facilities. To make matters worse, insecurity and violence often lead to delays that exacerbate health conditions and tragically, sometimes even lead to death. “Seven months ago, my wife gave birth to twin boys. She experienced excessive bleeding … Read more
Geneva, 17 June 2024 – In September 2023, the US corporation Danaher, which owns diagnostics maker Cepheid, announced a price reduction of the primary GeneXpert test used to diagnose tuberculosis (TB), from US$9.98 to $7.97, amid pressure from TB activists. Since then, officials from the Ministries of Health of Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ukraine, Belarus and … Read more
A study carried out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) indicates that almost 20 per cent of the Rohingya refugees tested in the Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh have an active hepatitis C infection. A blood-borne virus, hepatitis C is a disease that can remain dormant for a long time in those infected. If untreated, it … Read more
Public healthcare facilities, especially tertiary hospitals, such as the MSF-supported Mazar-i-Sharif Regional Hospital in the Balkh province, are struggling to cover essential running costs like staff salaries, medicines and medical supplies, fuel, and oxygen supply, due to the lack of long-term structural support for the health sector in Afghanistan. Mazar Regional Referral Hospital is the … Read more
Maputo, Mozambique – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will tomorrow host a panel discussion to reflect on its medical and humanitarian work for the past 40 years in Mozambique and discuss its challenges. Since 1984, MSF has been collaborating with local authorities and communities in Mozambique to respond to emergencies, delivering life-saving medical assistance … Read more
Amman, Brussels – International financial support to the health system in northern Syria is in decline. The medical needs in the region far exceed the available medical services, with Syrian people bearing the greatest burden due to limited support and the closure of hospitals and health facilities. Yet, this dire situation is being treated with … Read more
Ten-month-old Bilal lies in bed at Mazar-i-Sharif regional hospital, in Afghanistan’s Balkh province, where he is being treated for measles and pneumonia, watched over by his mother Zakia. When Bilal fell ill with a fever, Zakia took him to one privately-run clinic after another, but his condition got worse. “In the beginning, he had a … Read more
In July 2023, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its longest standing projects in Malawi, launched some 25 years ago in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The MSF Saturday Teen Club in Chiradzulu on 7 March 2020 begins with a general presentation of the day’s activities. ©Francesco Segoni MSF first began HIV/AIDS … Read more
In a parched landscape, an MSF tractor roars as it approaches a small village in Dentiuk, in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state. It is towing a trailer to which a creaking wooden canoe is strapped. “Are you sure we are in the right place?” asks the driver. It might not look like it, but when … Read more