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: MSF suspends hospital admissions in Aden after patient is kidnapped and killed
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all patient admissions to the organization's emergency trauma hospital in Aden, Y...
War and conflict
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...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
Health promotion
Sierra Leone
Joy in helping others
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) nurse Eliza Chang’s greatest joy in life comes from helping others.
Maternal health
Lebanon
In Lebanon, MSF provides care amid overlapping crises
Since late 2019, Lebanon has been grappling with its worst economic crisis in decades, social unrest and political turmoil. On top of that, and follow...
Emergency response
Health promotion
Yemen
Indiscriminate frontline hostilities and new sanctions are the latest addition to Yemen’s medical emergencies
To the south of Hudaydah Port on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast, renewed conflict on the frontlines intensified at the end of 2020, and the number of civilians...
War and conflict
Brazil
Chasing COVID-19 in the Brazilian Amazon: A story of fear, and of hope
Antonio Flores was the Medical Coordinator for the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team that arrived in April 2020 in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas S...
