Sudan: 500 days of war, failing aid, and rising medical needs
Over half a million Sudanese refugees have settled in eastern Chad since the outbreak of the war.
Sudan’s warring parties must allow humanitarian...
War and conflict
Refugees
Child health
Infectious diseases
DR Congo
Mpox outbreak in DRC: 5 things to know
In Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the number of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) cases have been on the rise for more than two years.
Infectious diseases
Epidemics and pandemics
Yemen
Yemen: Addressing acute watery diarrhoea
After a decade of conflict in Yemen, the infrastructure has been severely impacted, and the emergence of waterborne diseases is recurrent as a resu...
Infectious diseases
War and conflict
Cholera
Transparency milestone: Doctors Without Borders reveals cost of its landmark TB clinical trial
Doctors Without Borders urges public and non-profit actors to publish clinical trial costs to improve access to medical products for all.
Access to medicines
Tuberculosis (TB)
Infectious diseases
Nigeria
Nigeria: Doctors Without Borders Urges Immediate Response to the Worsening Diphtheria Outbreak
[Abuja, September 18] – A serious diphtheria outbreak is tearing through Nigeria, where thousands of people have been infected and hundreds more have ...
Infectious diseases
Somalia
Somalia: Five facts on drought, malnutrition and disease Outbreaks In Baidoa
As Somalia approaches the fifth consecutive rainy season that is forecasted to fail, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)medical t...
Malnutrition
Infectious diseases
War and conflict
Philippines
World TB Day 2023: Catching up with tuberculosis in the Philippines
Working closely with the Manila Health Department, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian organizatio...
Tuberculosis (TB)
Infectious diseases
Philippines
The Philippines: Facing the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis in the slums of Manila
While COVID-19 raised awareness of the risks of airborne disease in the general population, vulnerable populations - such as the urban poor - were exp...
Tuberculosis (TB)
Infectious diseases
DR Congo
Measles in DRC: the never-ending fight against one of the world’s most contagious disease?
Every two to three years, measles outbreaks affect tens or even hundreds of thousands of children in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Last year was...
