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
Access to Healthcare
Insecurity and lack of access to healthcare: the forgotten emergency of Ituri
Since early 2023, Djugu territory in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has seen intense intercommunal violence and armed clashes, forcing an estimated 156,000 people to flee their homes. This is the latest surge of violence in a decades-long conflict, which has seen 700,000 people displaced within Djugu territory and 1.7 million across Ituri province. Article - 27 Jun 2023
Refugees, Migration and displacement
South Sudan: A crisis within a crisis as people fleeing conflict in Sudan struggle for survival
Thousands of people who escaped the conflict in Sudan by crossing into South Sudan are now struggling for survival at transit centres in Upper Nile and Northern Bahr El Ghazal states. Press Release - 23 Jun 2023
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Little Birds: migrant children tell their stories from a shelter in northern Mexico
On International Refugee Day, MSF and the audiovisual production company ¡Hola! Combo present Little Birds, a short, animated documentary featuring the stories of seven children who fled their countries and are living at a border shelter, waiting to start new lives in the United States. Article - 20 Jun 2023
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Uganda: Over 30,000 refugees waiting for adequate help in the Nakivale refugee settlement
Since August 2022 and the closure of the transit camp in Kisoro, 30,000 persons from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have arrived in Nakivale settlement in Uganda, fleeing fighting linked to the resurgence of the M23 armed group in the province of North Kivu. Article - 19 Jun 2023
Year in Review
Year in Review 2022
War, violence, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, rising inflation and spiralling prices; these are all factors that contributed to an overall increase in people’s needs, to which nearly 63,000 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff responded in 78 countries around the world in 2022. Article - 10 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
Access to Healthcare
CAR: "Everyone arrives exhausted from Sudan, and many children are ill"
Recently, thousands of people fleeing the conflict in Sudan have sought refuge in the northern Central African Republic (CAR). Issa Moussa, deputy head of mission for MSF, is leading MSF’s emergency response in Birao. He describes how MSF is adapting to provide medical support to these refugees Stories from the Frontline - 8 Jun 2023
Cholera
MSF warns of looming health catastrophe in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps
A cholera outbreak in the camps has affected 2,786 people so far and there is an imminent risk of outbreaks of other gastro-intestinal diseases, warns MSF, which is calling for immediate action from donors and aid agencies to address the unsanitary conditions and overcrowding in the camps. Press Release - 30 May 2023
Neglected Diseases