Access to Healthcare
Sierra Leone’s first outpatient model of care for drug-resistant tuberculosis allows patients to stay in the community
In cooperation with Sierra Leone’s National Tuberculosis Programme, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing care to patients with drug-sensitive and drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in Bombali district, Sierra Leone. An outpatient model of care allows patients for the first time to start and continue their treatment at home. Project Update - 24 Mar 2022
Access to Healthcare
DRC: Insecurity and impunity force MSF to halt lifesaving medical work in Nizi and Bambu
MSF has announced that it will close its projects in Nizi and Bambu due to a lack of security guarantees from all parties to the conflict. Press Release - 21 Mar 2022
War and Conflict
War in Ukraine
War has been simmering in eastern Ukraine since 2014. This war escalated on 24 February 2022 when the Russian forces started a full-scale military invasion across Ukraine. This war continues to cause civilian casualties and significant damage to critical and medical infrastructure, particularly in the east, southeast and northeast of the country, where the fighting is most intense.
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
“Being a leader calls for so much”
It is estimated that almost half of Kenyan women aged between 15 and 49 have experienced physical or sexual violence.1 In the overcrowded Mathare slum area of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, Médecins Sans Frontières runs a 24-hour sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) care clinic called Lavender House, where Barbara Salano Kerre is the sexual and gender-based violence mental health supervisor. Stories from the Frontline - 7 Mar 2022
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Stories from the Frontline - 22 Feb 2022
Unaccompanied minors: From the streets of Cameroon to a tent in Paris
A street child in Cameroon, Yannick was kidnapped by people traffickers in 2019 and sold as a slave in Libya. He escaped and made it to Europe, where he found refuge in France and receives support from MSF. Now recognised as an unaccompanied minor, he tells us his story.Stories from the Frontline - 22 Feb 2022
Sexual and Gender Based Violence
Democratic Republic of Congo: an urgent need to end sexual violence in Salamabila
Survivors of sexual violence can have a lot to deal with, from physical and psychological injuries to exclusion from the community, sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies. Article - 18 Feb 2022
Malnutrition
Democratic Republic of Congo: Malnutrition rises as miners fight over gold
MSF has launched an initiative to help reduce child deaths from malnutrition by training and equipping 112 people from the local community to help detect malnutrition early. Article - 18 Feb 2022
Mental Health
Cancer in Mali: “My hope is to be able to treat women in time”
On the occasion of World Cancer Day on February 4th, health workers from Mali’s Ministry of Health and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) describe their day-to-day struggles in the fight against cancer in Bamako. Cases of cancer have more than doubled in Africa in the last 20 years. Article - 4 Feb 2022
Mental Health