Statements & Opinion

Refugees in eastern Chad are in dire need of food, water and healthcare, with many suffering from malaria, diarrhoea and malnutrition.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)  calls on the UN, international donors and humanitarian organisations to urgently respond to the vital needs of people in eastern Chad. 

28 August 2023: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been made aware of a data breach affecting Pareto Phone, a third-party tele-fundraising supplier that we engaged until 2018.

For the past six years, Medecins Sans Frontieres has been alerting the world that the Rohingya people living in refugee camps in Bangladesh are at extreme risk of a critical outbreak of disease and that their living conditions are unacceptable and inhumane. 

People who have fled violence in Sudan are in urgent need of shelter, food, water, sanitation, healthcare and protection services.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has witnessed extremely vulnerable people being pushed back indiscriminately by French police.

We call for the end of arbitrary detention of people on the move and the use of violence at borders.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has repeatedly called for the protection of hospitals and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, and once again condemns this outrageous attack on a medical facility.

More than 140,000 people, mostly South Sudanese women and children fleeing from Khartoum, have newly arrived in White Nile state since conflict broke out in Sudan and are now facing huge unmet needs for food, shelter, healthcare and water and sanitation.

More than two months on, despite the magnitude of Cyclone Mocha, scaling up of an emergency response to address the immense needs of people impacted is still not happening due to restrictions imposed by military authorities.

MSF calls again on Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) to withdraw or abandon extended patents on lifesaving TB drug as main patent expires in India on 18 July, opening the door to more affordable generic brands.

Following the shipwreck of 14 June which left up to 500 people dead or missing off the coast of Greece, Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced EU migration policies, calling for accountability over the lives lost and for a dedicated, proactive, state-led search and rescue mechanism at sea.