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Over the past three years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of children admitted to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospitals in Yemen for measles. In the first half of 2023, the number of measles patients received in MSF-supported facilities has nearly tripled, at almost 4,000, compared to the whole of 2022.

In the shadow of conflict, the Central African Republic (CAR) is grappling with a decades-long health crisis. Here, in a country of 5.5 million people, access to healthcare is all but impossible and life expectancy is little more than 54 years.

For years, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has repeated calls for more action from governments and humanitarian actors. Yet, the situation worsens, and our teams and the communities we serve are left wondering: where is everyone? 

It’s been six years since 700,000 Rohingya people fled their homes in Myanmar to escape violent persecution and sought refuge in neighbouring Bangladesh. 

Six years after an unprecedented exodus of the Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, medical needs in the world's largest refugee camp remain pressing and care increasingly inadequate.   

In a global context marked by multiple large-scale humanitarian crises, international funding allocated to the humanitarian response for these one million stateless people is under increased pressure year on year. 

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. 

In the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is partnering with a Rohingya community to bear witness to the challenges, experiences and survival of Rohingya people.

A huge scabies outbreak is affecting Rohingya refugees as the 6-year anniversary of their expulsion from Myanmar approaches.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been supporting and running medical projects in 

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.