The Pulse: September 2025
Highlights from this issue:
- Feature: Navigating Global Pressures on Humanitarian Aid
- Feature: Malnutrition in Nigeria
- Letter from Gaza: Displacement Orders Drive a Cycle of Grief
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I was 17 when I sat in Psych 101 and studied the infamous 1971 Stanford prison experiment, in which a mere toss of a coin designated the student volunteers to the role of ‘prisoner’ or ‘guard’. Intended to last two weeks, the experiment was shut down after less than a week because of what unfolded.
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During a war that has made 8 million people internally displaced and forced a further 3 million people to seek safety in neighbouring countries, Sudan is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak it has had in years.
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The rapid decrease in global foreign aid budgets is already impacting the delivery of humanitarian aid. With crises becoming increasingly protracted, and with states increasingly linking aid to national interests, the future has become even more uncertain for the world’s most vulnerable.
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More than 50 years after outrage over war and famine in Nigeria sparked the creation of MSF, another malnutrition crisis is gripping the country’s north. But it’s a crisis largely unnoticed by the global community. MSF Australia’s Simon Eccleshall, recent head of mission in Nigeria, shares what he saw.
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Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, has become host to the world’s largest refugee camp. For the Rohingya people living there for years or only just arrived, the struggle to survive threatens to erase connections to culture, tradition and home.
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More than 30 displacement orders have been issued since Israel broke the ceasefire on 18 March this year. The constant state of alert brought on by these orders has devastating consequences on people’s mental health. MSF mental health supervisor Iman Abu Shawish explains.
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I’ve seen it in every assignment. But there has been a big improvement, and I feel that the ‘There is no health without mental health’ message is getting through.
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During the last quarter, 46 staff from Australia and eight from New Zealand covered 58 assignments with MSF.
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