Madagascar: Ongoing assessments after Cyclone Batsirai
Tropical cyclone Batsirai hit Madagascar on February 5. According to the National Risk and Disaster Management Office (BNGRC), the initial toll amount...
Natural disasters
Nigeria
Nigeria: Prevention is key to stop children from dying of lead poisoning
Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has handed over its lead poisoning project in Zamfara, northern Nigeria, to state authorities....
Eswatini
Eswatini: Tackling COVID-19 vaccination barriers in hard-to-reach areas
With COVID-19 vaccination coverage at around 28 per cent in Eswatini, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is working to support t...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
Cambodia
Cambodia: Treating hep C, from an innovative project to fruitful avenues for other countries
Between 2016 and 2021, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams developed a care programme for hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients ...
Hepatitis C
Mali
Cancer in Mali: “My hope is to be able to treat women in time”
On the occasion of World Cancer Day on February 4th, health workers from Mali’s Ministry of Health and Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontiè...
Non-communicable diseases
Yemen
Yemen: Thousands desperate for help in conflict-hit Marib
“We don’t have blankets to cover ourselves,” says Aafia, one of thousands internally displaced people sheltering in Yemen’s Marib governorate. “My chi...
War and conflict
Palestine
Palestine: Burn injuries, a chronic health problem in Gaza
In the Doctors Without Borders clinic in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, four physiotherapists get ready for a busy day. They wear personal protective ...
Yemen
Yemen: ‘Unjustifiable’ Saudi-led coalition air strike on prison kills and injures hundreds
An air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa'ada City Remand Prison in the early hours of January 21 has killed at least 82 people and i...
Iraq
Iraq: Supporting hospitals to face a pandemic
“When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Iraq in March 2020, it was quickly clear that it would be a huge challenge to the health system,” says Dr Daniel U...
