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The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies. With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled. 

In the first of a new weekly audio diary series, MSF Hospital Director Kaylene Tomkins’s shares what it’s like to respond to mass casualties in a war zone.  

Despite constant insecurity and complex health challenges, Dr Gerald Riordon focused on building strong and respectful working relationships in his first assignment with MSF. With a background as a general paediatric advanced trainee, Gerald managed a team of 20 doctors providing paediatric and neonatal specialist healthcare to people in the large Rohingya refugee camp and local population.  

Life in Kiribati is influenced by its remote location, high disease burden and the worsening impacts of climate change. The country's healthcare system is under immense strain. With health workforce shortages, Kiribati relies on skilled and dedicated members of the community to provide care on the outer islands. 

Isabella Mayes is a midwife activity manager who has recently returned from Old Fangak, South Sudan. Isabella shares how her experience in remote and rural healthcare helped her on her first assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). 

Palestinians are perpetually on the verge of losing access to essential medical care and clean water due to deliberate actions by Israeli authorities.

MSF has started to roll out a new HIV prevention tool: a long-acting injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis. If we can get this drug to people at risk of HIV infection, and they accept it, this will be a turning point in ending the HIV epidemic.  

More than 20 months into the conflict, the extremely dire situation in the Gaza Strip is devastating millions of Palestinian lives. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called a press conference in Brussels to confront the EU Member States with their responsibilities in the face of the patterns consistent with genocide that our teams are witnessing daily in Gaza.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured as they waited for food at the newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution centres in Rafah and close to the Netzarim Corridor, according to the Ministry of Health. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital, Khan Younis. 

Life in Kiribati, an island nation in the central Pacific Ocean, is influenced by its remote location, high disease burden and the worsening impacts of climate change. The country's healthcare system is under immense strain. With health workforce shortages, Kiribati relies on skilled and dedicated members of the community to provide care on the outer islands.