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    Measles in South Sudan: People escaping conflict in Sudan face new health crisis
    South Sudan
    Measles in South Sudan: People escaping conflict in Sudan face new health crisis
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are recording a concerning rise in measles and malnutrition cases in the organization’s...
    Measles
    War and conflict
    South Sudan: Catastrophic floods cause mass displacement and an escalating humanitarian crisis
    South Sudan
    South Sudan: Catastrophic floods cause mass displacement and an escalating humanitarian crisis
    A small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile River’s current, on it sits an entire family of...
    Natural disasters
    World TB Day 2023: Catching up with tuberculosis in the Philippines
    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
    The Philippines: Facing the impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis in the slums of Manila
    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
    The Philippines: Five years of medical care for Marawi siege survivors
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Five years of medical care for Marawi siege survivors
    It has been five years since the siege of Marawi displaced 98 per cent of the population of the southern Philippines city. Since the conflict, Doctors...
    War and conflict
    Non-communicable diseases
    Mental health
    The triple threat of climate change, conflict, and health emergencies: A deadly mix for the most vulnerable in fragile settings
    Mali
    The triple threat of climate change, conflict, and health emergencies: A deadly mix for the most vulnerable in fragile settings
    Geneva (MSF/ICRC) – Climate change is not a distant threat. It is already dramatically affecting vulnerable people across the globe. In particular, th...
    Climate emergency
    Doctors Without Borders and Manila Health Department inaugurate mobile X-RAY van for Tondo tuberculosis project
    Philippines
    Doctors Without Borders and Manila Health Department inaugurate mobile X-RAY van for Tondo tuberculosis project
    At the World Tuberculosis Day ribbon-cutting ceremony in Tondo Foreshore Health Centre, Doctors Without Borders also signed a GeneXpert MTB/XDR cooper...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    The Philippines: Doctors Without Borders launches intervention on islands affected by Typhoon Rai
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Doctors Without Borders launches intervention on islands affected by Typhoon Rai
    Manila 17 January, 2022 – Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams will start providing medical and humanitarian assis...
    Natural disasters
    South Sudan: Hundreds of thousands still living in precarious conditions months after floods
    South Sudan
    South Sudan: Hundreds of thousands still living in precarious conditions months after floods
    Eight months since the beginning of the flooding, people in Unity State in northern South Sudan are still facing precarious living conditions and are ...
    Natural disasters
    Malnutrition