Mozambique: MSF scales up medical response in Mueda as thousands are displaced

Pemba, 17 October 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has scaled up activities in Mueda town and district following yet another wave of displacement after repeated violent incursions of a non-state armed group in Mocímboa da Praia and other areas of northern Mozambique. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than … Read more

MSF regret to announce the permanent closure of its Emergency Centre Turgeau in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Port-au-Prince, 14 October 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to permanently close its Emergency Center in Turgeau due to increasing insecurity in the centre of Port-au-Prince. This health facility had temporarily closed its doors and suspended its activities in March 2025 following a serious incident targeting MSF. For several weeks now, the … Read more

Haiti: MSF supports the reopening of a major maternity hospital in the capital

Port-au-Prince, October 13, 2025 – Access to health care has become severely limited amid a broader crisis of violence and insecurity in Haiti. In response, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting the reopening of the Isaïe Jeanty Maternity Hospital, one of the largest in the country, which had closed during a wave of violence in … Read more

Enduring crisis in Yemen: The mental health strain

More than a decade of conflict in Yemen has resulted in the destruction of vital infrastructure, displacement of families, loss of loved ones, and a severe deterioration of essential service, including health care. But beyond the physical destruction, the conflict has caused high levels of distress across communities, due to exposure to violence, displacement, and … Read more

Ceasefire in Gaza: Humanitarian aid must flow immediately

The announcement of the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza brings a welcome moment of relief for exhausted, starved, and grieving Palestinians and a great relief to the families of all hostages — but it comes after more than two years and over 67,000 lost lives. While we welcome the ceasefire, it does not … Read more

World Mental Health Day: MSF work in Italy with migrant minors

Agrigento, Italy- Since July 2024, the MSF team working on the ‘People on the Move’ project has been supporting migrant minors in Agrigento, in Italian island Sicily which receives the majority of people crossing the deadly route of the Mediterranean Sea. The project is being carried out in collaboration with local health authorities. Many of … Read more

Life after conflict: Why mental health care in Tigray cannot wait

Tigray, Ethiopia – 7 October 2025 – Three years after the cessation of hostilities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, communities continue to face the devastating consequences of violence, displacement, and the collapse of essential services. In this region in the country’s north, more than 760,000 people remain displaced; many are living in overcrowded camps … Read more

Bangladesh: How collective healing and art, support mental health in Rohingya refugee camps

Following decades of persecution, culminating in ethnically targeted violence in 2017, over one million Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar have carried an unbearable weight of displacement, violence, and loss.  While physical wounds eventually heal, psychological distress is a deeply persistent challenge that continues in the face of ongoing trauma. For Rohingya, life in the camps … Read more

Haiti: Health system and civilians trapped in escalating violence

As Haiti’s capital sinks deeper into a crisis marked by violent clashes between armed groups and police forces, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reports a rise in the number of civilian casualties arriving at its facilities and highlights the impact of this violence on the availability of healthcare in the capital. In a context … Read more

MSF concludes assistance activities for migrants in Panama

From April 2021 to August 2025, MSF teams provided 163,000 medical consultations and 8,100 mental health consultations to people in transit and host communities. After almost four years in Panama, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has ended its medical and humanitarian activities in the country, which have focused mainly on providing care to migrants … Read more