Access to Healthcare
Kenya: Everyone is welcome at MSF’s youth-friendly health services in Mombasa
“Key populations”, as they are usually called, have been defined by the Ministry of Health as those who may have unique health needs, including sex workers, people who use drugs, transgender and gender non-binary people, and sexual minority groups (e.g., men who have sex with men, women who have sex with women) and other special vulnerable groups such as street populations. Article - 7 Jul 2023
Malnutrition
Ethiopia: MSF calls for immediate resumption of food distributions
As malnutrition rates surge beyond emergency levels in many areas of Ethiopia, MSF calls for the immediate resumption of food distributions which were suspended across Ethiopia in early June 2023. Press Release - 6 Jul 2023
HIV/AIDS
Central African Republic: MSF hands over the fight against HIV to the Ministry of Health in the region
After seven years of intervention in the health district of Haut Mbomou, Central African Republic, MSF is scaling back its HIV-related activities and transferring the successful differentiated care model to the Ministry of Health. Article - 18 Jun 2023
Medical Emergencies
MSF's life-saving response via the blood bank in Northern Mozambique
MSF health promotion teams at the Nametil health centre blood bank regularly run blood donation campaigns with the goal of finding at least three voluntary donors per day. Article - 14 Jun 2023
South Sudan
Access to medical care in South Sudan boosted as 64 healthcare workers graduate from MSF Academy for Healthcare training programme in Malakal
Sixty-four healthcare workers including nurses and nurse aides have graduated from the MSF Academy for Healthcare programme in Malakal Town, Upper Nile State. The graduates successfully completed an 18-month Basic Clinical Nursing Care Training programme designed to enhance their skills to better serve the patients. Press Release - 8 Jun 2023
HIV/AIDS
5 key facts about MSF in Eswatini
As MSF prepares to leave the Shiselweni region after 16 years of work, its project in Nhlangano draws to a close. However, to ensure the continued success of the Shiselweni HIV & tuberculosis (TB) programme, MSF’s teams in Eswatini remain dedicated to working with the country’s Ministry of Health. Stories from the Frontline - 26 May 2023
Distribution of essentials
One year on: Soaring needs in Twic County, South Sudan
People living in Twic county suffer from limited access to food, water, sanitation and healthcare Article - 15 May 2023
Access to medicines
MSF demands J&J give up its patent monopoly on TB drug to put lives over profits
Ahead of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) annual shareholders meeting, MSF demanded that the US corporation publicly commit now to not enforce its secondary patents on the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline in all countries with a high burden of TB, and allow generic manufacturers to supply more affordable, quality-assured generic versions of this lifesaving drug to everyone, everywhere who needs it. Press Release - 26 Apr 2023
Access to Healthcare
Overcoming taboos for women's positive sexual health
MSF projects in Greece, Honduras and Zimbabwe have shown that strengthening women’s own agency and community support can work hand-in-hand to enable positive engagement with women’s sexual and reproductive health needs in a way that reverberates through the social fabric. Article - 8 Mar 2023
Maternal Health