Dayana Tabbara, MSF mental health counsellor, provides psychological first aid to a patient and her daughter.
11 Oct 2024

As Israeli attacks intensify in Lebanon, healthcare facilities are being forced to close, leading to devastating consequences for civilians and their access to healthcare. MSF urges all warring parties to spare civilians, medical facilities, and medical personnel.

Call to action - report on the sexual violence in DRC

Sexual violence is a major medical emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), notably in eastern provinces affected by armed conflicts like North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri or Maniema. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on the government, donors, humanitarian organisations and parties to the conflict to mobilise to invest more in the prevention of sexual violence, improve access to comprehensive victim-centered care and increase the availability of victim support programmes.

 

Psychologist Dr Trudy Rosenwald with Mental Health Gap Dr Jackson at the new mental health clinic in Balukhali project
08 Oct 2024

Dr Trudy Rosenwald, who has worked as a mental health activity manager with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Bangladesh, explains the connection between physical and mental health.

Distribution
07 Oct 2024

Lebanon is experiencing the most significant escalation of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War, with close to 1,300 people killed between 16 September and 1 October, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The intense Israeli bombardments have forced more than one million people to flee their homes. 

Distribution
07 Oct 2024

Lebanon is experiencing the most significant escalation of conflict since the 2006 Lebanon War, with close to 1,300 people killed between 16 September and 1 October, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. The intense Israeli bombardments have forced more than one million people to flee their homes. 

Omar

For almost a full year now, Israel has carried out unmitigated slaughter in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Since the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023, Israeli forces have pursued an all-out war on people in the Gaza Strip. People have been repeatedly displaced and forced into smaller and smaller areas under bombardments and increasingly inhumane conditions.

Omar

For almost a full year now, Israel has carried out unmitigated slaughter in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. Since the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October 2023, Israeli forces have pursued an all-out war on people in the Gaza Strip. People have been repeatedly displaced and forced into smaller and smaller areas under bombardments and increasingly inhumane conditions.

Lebanon
01 Oct 2024

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese families have been forced out of their houses and pushed on the roads, in a desperate search of a safe place following the large-scale Israeli bombardment in Lebanon over the past week. 

Psychologist Dr Trudy Rosenwald with Mental Health Gap Dr Jackson at the new mental health clinic in Balukhali project
08 Oct 2024

Dr Trudy Rosenwald, who has worked as a mental health activity manager with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Bangladesh, explains the connection between physical and mental health.