Around 12,000 people were forced to evacuate Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos after fire completely destroyed the camp on 8 and 10 September.

Despite calls to end the containment of refugees and asylum seekers on Lesbos, the Greek government is currently constructing a new camp to house those left without shelter. The Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team in Lesbos continues to provide care to people, while urging authorities to immediately evacuate them to safety.

As COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, the danger of patients waiting too long to seek treatment is all too clear to MSF staff responding to the crisis.

Dr Rachel Lister, an intensive care doctor from New Zealand, spent six weeks working in MSF’s COVID-19 treatment centre in Aden. She highlights three patients' stories that had a profound impact on her during her field placement in Yemen.

One month after the explosion ripped through Beirut, MSF teams continue to provide aid to those injured and left homeless in a country that has been battered by crisis. Jonathan Whittall, former MSF emergency coordinator in Beirut and director of MSF’s Analysis Department, answers questions on our response since the explosion on 4 August.

More than three years since the emergency officially began, the systematic persecution of the Rohingya people continues. Now more than 860,000 Rohingya refugees live in Cox’s Bazar in southeast Bangladesh, crowded into 26 kilometres of land, dependent on aid, and with a future that appears bleak.

As the global coronavirus pandemic reshapes lives around the world, the health needs of children in low income settings continue to overwhelm already stretched health systems. The impact of COVID-19 on children is twofold: the direct effects of the disease itself, and the indirect consequences. 

More than a week after Haiti's latest earthquake destroyed his home and fractured the bones of his leg, Widnika—just two years and seven months old—sleeps in a bed at MSF's Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince, with his mother Widline beside him. 

The civil war in South Sudan has had widespread effects on civilians since it began in 2013. MSF teams are responding to the latest wave of violence, which has displaced tens of thousands of people into the bush and left them in need of healthcare, food, sanitation, and basic shelter. 

In the week since the devastating blast in Beirut, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been providing medical care and mental health support to those most impacted by the explosion. With the city already struggling with an economic crisis and a surge in COVID-19 cases, healthcare assistance is even more essential to those living in Lebanon.

On 4 August 2020, a powerful blast ripped through the port warehouses near central Beirut in Lebanon, after highly explosive material that was being stored there ignited. More than a hundred people were killed and nearly 5,000 thousand were injured.

Dr Khairil Musa, an intensive care doctor from Sydney, reflects on his time working with MSF in Aden, Yemen