A Year in Pictures 2024
Over the past 12 months, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have witnessed the continuation and escalation of conflicts, such as those in Gaza and Sudan, where unabated wars have raged into a second year. Our teams were also there for people and families seeking safety throughout the year, whether at the Mexico border or onboard our search and rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
This collection of photos, taken between December 2023 and December 2024, features the highs and lows we – and those we assist – experience as we provide medical and humanitarian assistance in over 70 countries. They show the breaking points – such as when we had to suspend activities in Haiti’s capital – but also resilience and joy, as when we witnessed a mother meeting her baby for the first time in South Sudan. These photos show how bearing witness can create a point of connection.
Medical care provides relief in the most difficult of circumstances, and we remain inspired by our staff’s commitment to deliver this care to people, even as the obstacles to doing so increase around us.
A nurse walks among patients at the Centre de Traitement Epidemiologique in Siguiri, Guinea, during the country’s worst outbreak of diptheria in 30 years. A patient is seen reflected in the glass. Guinea, December 2023. © Andrej Ivanov/MSF
A teenager draws on the wall at Doctors Without Borders’ mental health clinic in Al-Hol camp. Northeast Syria, December 2023. © MSF
The day after a fire in Camp 5 of Cox’s Bazar refugee camp. The fire raged for three hours and destroyed nearly 900 shelters. Bangladesh, January 2024. © Jan Bohm/MSF
Doctors Without Borders health promotion team conduct a Tom Brown (sweetened porridge made with nutritious ingredients that are cultivated in northern Nigeria and available in local markets) sensitisation session for men in Kebbi. Convincing men to support this approach for combatting malnutrition is key, as they are mostly the main providers for their families. For cultural reasons, Doctors Without Borders organises separate sessions for men and women. Nigeria, February 2024. © Georg Gassauer/MSF
Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders holds up an image of the destroyed Doctors Without Borders shelter in Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, Gaza. A Doctors Without Borders staff member’s wife and daughter-in-law were killed, and six other people were injured when an Israeli tank fired on a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders staff shelter on February 20, 2024. Lockyear called on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to demand an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza. Addressing the Council at its monthly meeting on Gaza, Lockyear also called for the unequivocal protection of medical facilities, staff, and patients. February 2024. © UN Photo/Loey Felipe
A mother meets her baby girl for the first time during her caesarean section in Mundari County hospital, the only secondary healthcare facility in Kajo Keji, Central Equatoria state. South Sudan, March 2024. © Manon Massiat/MSF
A view of Delmas 18, Port-au-Prince, after an armed fight between gangs and the police force. Haiti, March 2024. © Corentin Fohlen/Divergence
An overcrowded boat capsized during a night rescue by Doctors Without Borders' search and rescue team. The Doctors Without Borders team managed to retrieve all 45 people safely from the water. Mediterranean Sea, March 2024. © Simone Boccaccio
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A 28-year-old patient participating in the endTB-Q clinical trial, sits for an audiometric examination in a soundproof booth to verify her hearing capacity during a routine consultation at the endTB clinic run by Interactive Research & Development in Kotri. Pakistan, April 2024. © Asim Hafeez
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip carry their belongings as they leave following an evacuation order by the Israeli forces. Palestinian Territories, May 2024. © MSF
In the operating theatre of the Salama clinic in Bunia, a team of surgeons and anaesthetists from the Ministry of Health and Doctors Without Borders work together to treat trauma patients. Democratic Republic of Congo, June 2024. © Marion Molinari/MSF
A patient with broken ribs and burns on his legs and hands is being prepared for transport. He remembers that he was blown up by a mine but is having difficulty piecing together the events of the day. Ukraine, August 2024. © Olexandr Glyadyelov
A17-year-old patient from Nuseirat Camp in central Gaza, during a physiotherapy session at Doctors Without Borders' reconstructive surgery hospital in Amman, Jordan. He nearly died after his family's house was leveled by an Israeli airstrike. He suffered severe burns to his face and other areas of his body and a serious injury to his arm. He is receiving comprehensive reconstructive surgery and physiotherapy at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Amman, Jordan, August 2024. © Moises Saman/Magnum Photos
Teresa Arteaga and Lorena Rodriguez, Doctors Without Borders Health Promotion Supervisor, participate in the release of Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes in the community of Canaan, Tegucigalpa. These mosquitos carry a bacterium that decreases their likelihood of transmitting dengue fever. Honduras, September 2024. © Martín Cálix/MSF
A caravan of migrants, escorted by police, advances along the route between the towns of La Venta and Juchitán, in southern Mexico. Mexico, October 2024. © Adri Salido
Picketing outside Novo Nordisk's office in Johannesburg, where we asked them to drop the price of insulin pens to $1 USD, and to end the double standard on insulin pen supply. South Africa, November 2024. © Bafana Ngwenya/MSF
The X-ray of a toddler who was struck by shrapnel during a bomb blast while out shopping with her mother. Along with other casualties the unnamed girl was brought to the Bashair Training hospital in South Khartoum. During the X-ray, a part of the girl’s skull cap fell onto the table. A Doctors Without Borders emergency team operated on the girl and managed to save her life. Sudan, November 2024. © MSF
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