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3rd annual Mombasa health research conference 2025
Mental Health

Mombasa youth study highlights improvements to mental health for adolescents and young people

Newly released results from the MombasaYouth Study highlight both important progress and significant remaining gaps in the mentalhealth and well-being among young people in the county. Article - 4 Sep 2025
 
Surviving sexual violence in Eastern DRC for Congolese women in Goma, nowhere is safe
Sexual Violence

Surviving sexual violence in Eastern DRC,for Congolese women in Goma, nowhere is safe

MSF teams continue to record alarming levels of sexual violence cases. Between January and April, more than 7,400 survivors of sexual violence received treatment at Ministry of Health facilities supported by MSF in Goma. West of the city, in Saké, an additional 2,400 survivors were treated during the same period. Article - 30 Jul 2025
 
Many people use HIV and AIDS like they mean the same thing but they don’t. Knowing the difference can help you take better care of your health and fight the stigma that still exists around these terms.
HIV/AIDS

HIV vs AIDS: What’s the Real Difference?

Many people use HIV and AIDS like they mean the same thing, but they don’t. Knowing the difference can help you take better care of your health and fight the stigma that still exists around these terms. Article - 23 Jul 2025
 
Don’t wait until you feel sick to care about your health. Know your status, and get the support you need
HIV/AIDS

How Does Someone Get AIDS? Let’s Break It Down

If someone living with HIV doesn’t take their medication, the virus weakens their immune system over time. Eventually, they can develop AIDS when the body becomes too weak to fight off even simple infections like the flu or tuberculosis. Article - 23 Jul 2025
 
STIs are infections passed from one person to another during sexual activity (vaginal, oral, or anal). They can also be passed through sharing contaminated objects or from a mother to baby during pregnancy or birth and breastfeeding.
HIV/AIDS

STIs 101: What They Are and Why You Should Care

STIs are infections passed from one person to another during sexual activity (vaginal, oral, or anal). They can also be passed through sharing contaminated objects or from a mother to baby during pregnancy or birth and breastfeeding. Article - 23 Jul 2025
 
In 2025, MSF assisted an average of 740 childbirths per month across the four districts where it operates in Cabo Delgado province, northern Mozambique. But in this volatile context, insecurity makes it difficult for pregnant women to reach care and for health workers to provide it, putting lives at risk and leading to dangerous interruptions in maternal health services.
Access to Healthcare

Mozambique: Rise of violence is increasingly compromising access to healthcare in Cabo Delgado

Macomia, a major town in central Cabo Delgado, was attacked by a non-state armed group in May 2024, forcing MSF, as well as other humanitarian organizations, to stop or suspend activities. We were gradually able to resume operations in April 2025. More than a year after the attack, only one health facility is operational in the district, compared to the seven health centers that were functional before. Article - 17 Jul 2025
 
A picture of different medications a person living with HIV may take on a daily basis.
HIV/AIDS

Kigali: MSF welcomes the release of WHO guidelines for ‘game-changing’ HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, but remains deeply concerned about access, including licensing limitations.

While MSF welcomes the recent strategic partnership agreement between Gilead and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (the Global Fund), the agreed pricing and supply needs to be transparent to facilitate negotiations for affordable sustainable access to this critical HIV prevention tool outside of the Global Fund agreement. Article - 14 Jul 2025
 
Bambo, North Kivu, is facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis as ongoing conflict has forced tens of thousands to flee to the town. Overcrowded shelters, food shortages, and strained health services are pushing displaced families to the brink. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing essential care to around 3,700 people each week but needs far exceed current capacity.
War and conflict

North Kivu: Living conditions worsen in Bambo – a fragile sanctuary for tens of thousands fleeing violence

Malnutrition wards have had occupancy rates over 100 percent for close to a month; dozens of sexual violence victims are seen every week; and significant numbers of patients continue to seek treatment for diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections Article - 12 Jul 2025
 
Insecurity and movement restrictions to Healthcare in Amhara: Patients Struggle to Reach Lifesaving Treatment
Snakebite

Insecurity and movement restrictions to Healthcare in Amhara: Patients Struggle to Reach Lifesaving Treatment

Additionally, MSF was forced to halt life-saving ambulance referrals for highly critical patients to Gondar University Hospital, exacerbating the challenges faced by those in need of urgent care. Article - 9 Jul 2025
 
MSF hospital and offices in Ulang were looted by armed men
Attacks on medical care

South Sudan: “If we had a closer hospital, maybe my children would be alive today”

People in remote areas of Upper Nile State in South Sudan are suffering from a lack of access to health care, since attacks on medical boats and armed looting in medical facilities since the beginning of the year have forced Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders(MSF) to close its hospital and end its support to 13 community-based primary healthcare facilities in Ulang county. Article - 16 Jun 2025