Access to Healthcare
Somalia: “Health promotion is vital”
Fatumazahra Khalif is a senior health promotion manager with MSF in Somalia. She explains the impact health promotion can have, and why working alongside local communities is key when it comes to saving lives. Stories from the Frontline - 24 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
Access to Healthcare
Sudan: Obstructive bureaucracy and insecurity hampering humanitarian response
MSF continually faces extensive and obstructive administrative and bureaucratic restrictions in Sudan. If the current policies and practices persist, it will be impossible to provide the adequate medical and humanitarian response that people desperately need. Press Release - 22 Jun 2023
Malnutrition
Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF calls for a rapid and tangible increase in humanitarian aid in response to North Kivu crisis
Some 600,000 displaced people are living in desperate conditions, with inadequate access to food and exposed to violence in camps around Goma, in the North Kivu region. MSF’s medical teams have witnessed alarming rates of malnutrition and mortality in some of the camps. Press Release - 21 Jun 2023
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Little Birds: migrant children tell their stories from a shelter in northern Mexico
Videos and Photos - 20 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
Refugees, Migration and displacement
El Geneina: MSF calls for civilians to be spared and enabled to flee the city safely
Almost 900 wounded people have arrived in Chad over the last four days. They report people being shot at and killed as they try to escape violence in the city. Article - 19 Jun 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
Surgery