Healing the visible and invisible wounds of sexual violence in Central African Republic
Sexual violence has become a public health issue in Central African Republic (CAR) over the past decade, with women and minors being the most affected...
Sexual violence
Sudan
Sudan: MSF condemns attack on ambulance taking pregnant woman to hospital
In the early hours of Saturday 3 April, a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance, travelling from Rokero to A...
War and conflict
Maternal health
Myanmar
Myanmar: Hope and solidarity in the midst of crisis
The sweet fragrance of jasmine flowers strung across the rearview mirror of a taxi I was in offered the only sense of familiarity in a country that ha...
War and conflict
Ethiopia
Ethiopia: “I turned around and started running and that is when I was shot”
A number of people were killed when soldiers travelling in several vehicles opened fire near the bus station in the town of Adwa, in Ethiopia’s Tigray...
War and conflict
Mozambique
Fear and loss for people fleeing violence in Cabo Delgado
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff recently assisted two women caught up in the crisis, and here they tell their stories.
Refugees
Kenya
Closing refugee camps cannot be the end point of Kenya’s solidarity
I was in Dagahaley in late March this year – one of the three camps that make up the Dadaab refugee complex – when news spread that Kenya was calling ...
Refugees
Yemen
Yemen: Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in northern Yemen generally see more children with cases of severe malnutrition at this t...
War and conflict
Malnutrition
Indonesia
Counselling for adolescents in remote areas of Indonesia
Stephanie Amalia, or Fani as she’s commonly known, is a counsellor-educator from Depok, in West Java, Indonesia. Fani started working with Doctors Wit...
Health promotion
Adolescent health
Malaysia
Reaching thousands with a click: How the Rohingya helped guide COVID-19 awareness
With COVID-19 hitting the Rohingya refugee community hard, Elko Brummelman and his team knew they needed a new strategy in Malaysia. They wanted exper...
