War and conflict
Gaza: trauma continues long after the bombing stop
Between 10 and 21 May, Israeli airstrikes and shelling killed more than 250 people and left close to 2,000 injured in the coastal enclave of the Gaza Strip. In the space of just 11 days, many Gazans saw their homes and their livelihoods destroyed and suffered long-lasting physical and psychological injuries. In Israel, rockets and other projectiles fired from Gaza claimed 13 lives, including a child and a teenager, and wounding some more than 700 people. Article - 31 May 2021
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Year in Review 2020
The year 2020 was extremely challenging for people all over the world, as they experienced extraordinary levels of disease, loss, fear and isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. In many countries where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works – and some in which we normally don’t – the pandemic exacerbated existing healthcare issues caused by conflict, displacement and poverty. Update - 27 May 2021
Access to Healthcare
Sudan: MSF uses camels and donkeys to reach remote mountain villages in Darfur
“The situation here was very difficult: the community in Dilli village had no access to healthcare for several years” says Mohamed Abdallah Juma, a community leader from Dilli, located in the mountainous Jebel Marra area of Sudan’s Darfur region. Article - 19 May 2021
Malnutrition
Testimonials gathered during MSF mobile clinic in Ranobe, Ambosary district, Anosy region, Madagascar (April 2021)
Testimonials Testimony - 17 May 2021
Distribution of essentials
Food and nutrition crisis in Madagascar: “It’s hard to find the words to describe what I witnessed.”
Since the end of March, MSF teams have been responding to one of the worst food and nutrition crises ever experienced in southern Madagascar. Prior to deploying medical personnel, an exploratory team was sent to Amboasary district to conduct logistical and health assessments – actions essential to the rollout of an effective humanitarian response. One of the team was Jean Pletinck, an experienced logistician who has worked with MSF for 28 years. Jean describes the catastrophic living conditions of people in remote regions of southern Madagascar Stories from the Frontline - 17 May 2021
Malnutrition
As famine looms in southern Madagascar, MSF appeals for massive increase in emergency food aid
Antananarivo/Paris, 17 May 2021 – An immediate and massive increase in food aid is urgently needed for people in southern Madagascar, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), whose teams in the region are witnessing an exceptionally severe malnutrition crisis which in some places borders on famin Press Release - 17 May 2021
Delivering Hope in the Desert: Helping Mothers Deliver Safely in Dadaab Refugee Camp
Her smile can warm your heart – a true statement that can be gravely taken out of context, depending on the person saying it. But if her picture here is anything to go by, then you know it could be true – at least partly. If you see her handle her patients, or how she interacts with the other staff she manages in her team, and her other colleagues – then it will all fall into place. Stories from the Frontline - 13 May 2021
Access to medicines