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    Afghanistan: Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in the northern provinces
    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...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
    At 11:10 am local time on Saturday, October 7, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan, followed by three subsequent aftershocks. As of ...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    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
    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
    Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
    The future of female patients and health workers in Afghanistan is being threatened by the recent decree issued by the Ministry of Economy prohibiting...
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders condemns the ban on women working for NGOs and their erasure from public life
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders condemns the ban on women working for NGOs and their erasure from public life
    After months of continuous restrictions placed on the female population of Afghanistan, limitations placed on their participation in everyday life, ac...
    Afghanistan: The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
    Jawahira was referred to the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Kandahar earlier this year from a ...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Lithuania: Repeated pushbacks at the border causing mental and physical suffering to people on the move
    Europe
    Lithuania: Repeated pushbacks at the border causing mental and physical suffering to people on the move
    Asylum seekers and migrants, including families with young children, are being subjected to repeated pushbacks between the borders of Lithuania and Be...
    Refugees
    Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
    Zainab didn’t sleep well last night. The lights and the incessant beeping of the machines in the intensive care unit would keep anyone awake. But main...
    Measles
    Malnutrition