Stories & News

 Tsiva Aurélien, fisherman Andriamanantena Tsiva Aurélien with his family in front of their house, partially destroyed by the cyclone.
24 Nov 2023

World leaders gathering in Dubai for COP28 must take urgent measures to protect the health of the most affected communities. 

diphtheria treatment center

Several countries across West Africa are experiencing some of the worst outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease diphtheria ever recorded on the continent.

MSF team started supporting Umdawanban hospital
22 Nov 2023

An unconscionable ban that is preventing life-saving surgical supplies from being transported to hospitals in RSF-controlled areas of Khartoum is putting the lives of hundreds of people at risk and must be immediately reversed.

Intensive nutritional centre in Adré hospital
22 Nov 2023

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is warning of the worrying nutritional status of Sudanese refugee children in eastern Chad. 

MSF doctors killed

Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is horrified by the killing of two MSF doctors and a third doctor working with Al Awda following a strike on Al Awda Hospital, one of the last remaining functional hospitals in Northern Gaza. 

South Sudan floods
20 Nov 2023

As a medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) witnesses firsthand the impacts of climate change, and how they threaten people’s health.  

MSF
20 Nov 2023

MSF's Cité Soleil emergency hospital remains the only medical facility capable of treating patients in the area.
 

Lisa Searle in Haiti assignment

Dr Lisa Searle is a general practitioner from Tasmania who has built a career with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), completing 10 assignments since 2010.

MSF condemns deliberate attack on a convoy transporting staff
19 Nov 2023

On 18 November 2023, an MSF staff's relative died and another one was injured in an attack on an MSF convoy trying to evacuate 137 people - MSF Palestinian staff members and their families.

MSF flag.

 

Thousands of civilians are at risk of dying, including over a hundred of MSF staff and their families. 

 

Intense unabated fighting and shelling in Gaza city continue to prevent thousands of people from safely leaving the area.