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    Women on the frontline: Defying the consequences of conflict to care for each other
    Chad
    Women on the frontline: Defying the consequences of conflict to care for each other
    In contexts of conflict and war around the world, women are fulfilling indispensable roles to address the healthcare needs of other women in their com...
    Refugees
    War and conflict
    Women’s health
    Syria: Mental wounds remain deep a year after the earthquakes
    Syria
    Syria: Mental wounds remain deep a year after the earthquakes
    People in northwest Syria continue to struggle with the mental health impacts of more than a decade of war, compounded by the devastating earthquakes ...
    Natural disasters
    Mental health
    Syria: 11 years of war through a Syrian Doctors Without Borders Hospital
    Syria
    Syria: 11 years of war through a Syrian Doctors Without Borders Hospital
    In 2012, a year after war broke out in Syria, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a burn care unit in Atmeh, in northweste...
    Surgery and trauma care
    War and conflict
    Refugees
    Syria: The humanitarian isolation of northwest must be prevented
    Syria
    Syria: The humanitarian isolation of northwest must be prevented
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to renew the cross-border resolution (UNS...
    War and conflict
    Measles in DRC: the never-ending fight against one of the world’s most contagious disease?
    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...
    Measles
    Infectious diseases
    Syria: Doctors Without Borders aid convoy in relief of earthquake victims enters northwest Syria
    Syria
    Syria: Doctors Without Borders aid convoy in relief of earthquake victims enters northwest Syria
    Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)calls for the urgent scaling up of humanitarian supplies, which currently fail to even match pr...
    Natural disasters
    Earthquake in Syria: "Hospitals were full of wounded and dead"
    Syria
    Earthquake in Syria: "Hospitals were full of wounded and dead"
    According to the latest estimates, the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria have killed more than 35,000 people. In Northwest Syria, a largely landl...
    Natural disasters
    "There is no time to waste in reaching the people of this region"
    Syria
    "There is no time to waste in reaching the people of this region"
    According to the latest estimates, the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria have killed more than 35,000 people and injured tens of thousands more. ...
    Natural disasters
    HIV/AIDS in the DRC: Behind the progress, huge challenges remain
    DR Congo
    HIV/AIDS in the DRC: Behind the progress, huge challenges remain
    In 2002, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams opened the first outpatient treatment centre offering free care to people livi...
    HIV/AIDS
    Access to medicines