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Professor James Ebdon from the University of Brighton
29 Feb 2024

When you think of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF), images of medical teams providing life-saving care probably come to mind. But MSF's impact extends well beyond medical aid, with significant efforts in areas that are not just medical. 

A displaced Palestinian family inside their tent in the southern Gaza town of Rafah’s Al-Shaboura neighborhood.

Restrictions on aid and a lack of protection for humanitarian staff makes it nearly impossible to provide care in Gaza.

Patient from Ukraine
23 Feb 2024

Two years on from the escalation of war in Ukraine on 24 February 2022, MSF teams continue to assist patients on the frontlines of a seemingly never ending war. 

Rafah Indonesian Field Hospital hospitalisation room.

In Gaza, 1.5 million now seek refuge in Rafah, in the south. Continuous displacement over four months has left them with little to hold onto.

Awa Ousman Abdelkarim walking through the camp in Daguessa.
20 Feb 2024

Almost one year on, people fleeing Sudan’s violence continue to face an insufficient humanitarian response.

Georg Gassauer/MSF
14 Feb 2024

Measles admissions to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) facilities in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria, spiked between October and December 2023, reaching record numbers. Despite the vaccination efforts, this worrying situation calls for a rapid reinforcement of routine immunization campaigns.

 Diphteria vaccination campaign in Batha Province, Chad
14 Feb 2024

A diphtheria epidemic is currently raging in the Batha region of central Chad. Since June 2023, more than 825 cases and 36 deaths have been reported. 

The MSF emergency room in Chaman, 130 kilometers north of Quetta © MSF/Gul Nayab
08 Feb 2024

After sixteen years, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is handing over its emergency room services at the district Headquarters hospital to the medical authorities in Chaman, a town 130 kilometers north of Quetta, Pakistan, on the border between Balochistan and Afghanistan.

Syria earthquake

In northwest Syria, earthquake survivors still face the emotional aftermath and damage to infrastructure already weakened by a decade of war.

view of mother and child waiting at MSF clinic in Zamzam camp
07 Feb 2024

The malnutrition crisis in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, requires an urgent humanitarian response as an estimated one child is dying every two hours.