Sudan: Escalating humanitarian needs after half a million people flee violence in Wad Madani
The war in Sudan has taken a new turn. Heavy fighting and the change of military dynamic has caused immeasurable suffering, displaced millions, killed...
War and conflict
Refugees
Palestine
Gaza: Evacuation orders and heavy bombing around hospitals leave few healthcare options for civilians
Jerusalem, 12 January 2024 – Over the past three months, the Israeli Forces’ all-out assault on the Gaza Strip has drastically diminished the options ...
War and conflict
Palestine
West Bank: Palestinians in Hebron live in constant fear as violence surges
“The situation has been bad for years here. Israeli soldiers search our houses day and night, vandalise and arrest people without any warning,” says A...
War and conflict
Mental health
Access to medicines
Palestine
Gaza: Doctor Without Borders condemns strike on shelter that killed staff member’s five-year-old daughter
Jerusalem, January 9, 2024 - Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the January 8 strike on...
War and conflict
Bangladesh
Never-Ending Challenges: Rohingya Refugees Begin to Rebuild after Fire
At one hour past midnight on January 7, a fire broke out in Camp 5, one of the 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It took three hours to bring the b...
Rohingya refugee crisis
Bangladesh
Bangladesh: The needs are here and now
Two years ago, on March 22, 2021, a devastating fire swept through the world's largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. It killed 15, injured ...
Rohingya refugee crisis
Palestine
Gaza: No safe place as people are being crushed by intense, continuous bombing
Two months into the war, Israel’s unrelenting, indiscriminate strikes on Gaza have turned the north of the Strip into a pile of rubble and are now pou...
War and conflict
Doctors Without Borders joins noma survivors in celebrating inclusion in WHO neglected tropical diseases list
Amsterdam– Three years into its campaign to have noma recognised as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), international medical organisation Médecins Sa...
Neglected diseases
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in the northern provinces
For more than two decades, Afghanistan's healthcare system has faced longstanding issues of understaffing, underfunding, and inadequate response to po...
