Access to Health care

Access to healthcare

Not everything strikes without warning; some disasters are slow. They unfold over decades as a disease affects a population, instability undermines the health system or people are actively excluded from receiving healthcare.

After a rapid emergency subsides people can also find it difficult to access healthcare as the area struggles to recover, the government is overwhelmed by the scale of the problems or new health problems are sparked, such as cholera outbreaks when clean water supplies are disrupted. In these cases, MSF works to give people access to health care and to tackle diseases that need long-term treatment, such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and neglected tropical diseases like sleeping sickness.

 
Mwachiro Ngala Mangale, hygeinist disinfecting a patient bed in the severe adult male ward at Utange isolation center.
Access to healthcare

Behind the mask: A hygienist’s fight against MPOX

Article 2 Oct 2025
 
Iyad looks out the window of his room at the MSF reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan.
Gaza - Israel War

We share the same pain

Article 22 Sep 2025
 
People are waiting at the triage area of MSF’s Jamtoli primary healthcare center at Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. In the Rohingya refugee camps, essential services have been affected by reductions in humanitarian funding. Causing some hospitals and clinics to close and others to reduce services, which has significantly increased patient numbers at MSF’s Jamtoli and Hakimpara clinic in the camps
Access to Healthcare

Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: The long wait for medical care

Article 8 Sep 2025
 
Emergency room at Al Nao hospital, supported by MSF in Omdurman, Khartoum state.
Access to Healthcare

Al-Nao hospital: A lifeline during war

Article 3 Sep 2025
 
A staff member approaches the main door of MSF’s Mother and Child hospital in Houban, which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Access to Healthcare

Yemen: MSF hands over the mother and child hospital in Taiz Houban after a decade of lifesaving care

Article 28 Aug 2025
 
All new arrivals are housed in sheds while they wait to be allocated a family shelter. Larger families are given priority.
Access to Healthcare

Burundi: MSF's second emergency intervention for congolese refugees in Musenyi

Article 28 Aug 2025