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    Kenya: A day in an outreach activity - Triple burden of measles, malaria and malnutrition in a family
    Kenya
    Kenya: A day in an outreach activity - Triple burden of measles, malaria and malnutrition in a family
    Bringing life-saving medical services closer to the villages holds profound significance for those living far from healthcare facilities. In March 202...
    Measles
    Malaria
    Malnutrition
    Lebanon: Syrians in the country struggle to access healthcare amid fear of deportations
    Lebanon
    Lebanon: Syrians in the country struggle to access healthcare amid fear of deportations
    Syrian refugees in Lebanon are finding it increasingly difficult to access vital medical services due to reports of forced deportation and restriction...
    Refugees
    Burkina Faso: Severe humanitarian crisis for people living under blockade in Djibo
    Burkina Faso
    Burkina Faso: Severe humanitarian crisis for people living under blockade in Djibo
    Burkina Faso is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has seen 1.99 million internally displaced people flee violence perpetrated by ...
    Malnutrition
    War and conflict
    Kenya: Urgent humanitarian response required now to address rising malnutrition cases
    Kenya
    Kenya: Urgent humanitarian response required now to address rising malnutrition cases
    In north-eastern parts of Kenya, an ongoing drought rages following three consecutive seasons of failed rains, making an already dire food insecurity ...
    Malnutrition
    Burkina Faso: Doctors Without Borders condemns the brutal and deliberate killing of two of its employees
    Burkina Faso
    Burkina Faso: Doctors Without Borders condemns the brutal and deliberate killing of two of its employees
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest terms the murder of two of its employees in the Boucle du Mouhoun r...
    War and conflict
    Lebanon: Lack of safe water and sanitation threatens the ability to contain the spread of cholera
    Lebanon
    Lebanon: Lack of safe water and sanitation threatens the ability to contain the spread of cholera
    The first cholera outbreak in nearly three decades in Lebanon, is unfolding on top of the ongoing economic and fuel crisis that has further exacerbate...
    Cholera
    North Lebanon: Doctors Without Borders Starts COVID-19 Vaccination in Remote Areas
    Lebanon
    North Lebanon: Doctors Without Borders Starts COVID-19 Vaccination in Remote Areas
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is contributing to Lebanon’s vaccination efforts in the remote areas of Wadi Khaled, and Khat...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Vaccination
    Medics, Health Authorities and Patients: Keys in mitigating deaths from Non-Communicable Diseases
    Kenya
    Medics, Health Authorities and Patients: Keys in mitigating deaths from Non-Communicable Diseases
    Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. According to the World Health Organisation, NCDs kill 41 million people each...
    Non-communicable diseases
    Healthcare System in Lebanon Disintegrates
    Lebanon
    Healthcare System in Lebanon Disintegrates
    Dwindling supplies of fuel and medicine mean that Lebanon’s healthcare system is rapidly disintegrating as the country – which has been without a gove...
    Access to medicines