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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
    Yemen: Not just numbers – an alarming rise of measles in the country
    Yemen
    Yemen: Not just numbers – an alarming rise of measles in the country
    Over the past three years there has been a substantial increase in the number of children admitted to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontièr...
    Measles
    Malnutrition
    War and conflict
    Yemen: Five reasons why acute childhood malnutrition is surging in the country
    Yemen
    Yemen: Five reasons why acute childhood malnutrition is surging in the country
    Rising childhood malnutrition in Yemen is causing preventable deaths, especially of children under the age of five. Doctors Without Borders respond...
    Malnutrition
    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
    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
    Innovation: Antibiogo is already implemented in DRC and Jordan, and soon within other Doctors Without Borders' Labs
    Yemen
    Innovation: Antibiogo is already implemented in DRC and Jordan, and soon within other Doctors Without Borders' Labs
    Responding to the global health emergency, the MSF Foundation is taking action and providing a concrete response that can be used immediately in low- ...
    Antibiotic resistance
    Doctors Without Borders exerts proactive efforts to address abusive behaviours
    DR Congo
    Doctors Without Borders exerts proactive efforts to address abusive behaviours
    In late 2020, a media investigation revealed multiple accounts of abuse from employees of organisations involved in the response to the 10th outbreak ...
    Ebola
    Yemen: Thousands desperate for help in conflict-hit Marib
    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
    Yemen: ‘Unjustifiable’ Saudi-led coalition air strike on prison kills and injures hundreds
    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...