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27/08/2026

Did you know one of the ways charities receive support isn't only through regular donations, but also through gifts in Wills?

Leaving a gift in your Will to MSF can create a lasting legacy. This act of generosity and kindness is a powerful way to leave the world a better place for people affected by conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion and disasters.

Here are a few things you need to know.

Find out more: https://vist.ly/5gabi

MSF colleagues are proud to be representing MSF at COINN 2026 in sunny Darwin. We’ve set up our booth alongside other ex...
26/08/2026

MSF colleagues are proud to be representing MSF at COINN 2026 in sunny Darwin.

We’ve set up our booth alongside other exhibitors for the first day today, and we’ll be here all week taking part in the conference. We’re ready to meet with people who are equally passionate about newborn care, and promoting the essential role of neonatal nurses in ensuring quality of care for small and sick babies.

In posters and an oral session we’ll be highlighting training programs we’ve run in Burkina Faso, Pakistan and Tanzania to improve quality of care, plus the work of the MSF Academy for Healthcare and the importance of strengthening nurse competencies and positioning neonatal nursing as an essential care domain in humanitarian contexts.

Come find us at COINN!

25/08/2026

Nine years after fleeing extreme violence in Myanmar, children make up more than half of the 1.3 million refugees living in conditions of indefinite containment.

At Kutupalong Hospital in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh - MSF’s largest hospital and main referral hub for people in the camps - medical teams are witnessing the largely overlooked impact of this crisis. What was once a hospital treating routine, seasonal illnesses have turned into an emergency facility managing children arriving in life-threatening conditions.

Paediatric healthcare needs of children presenting at MSF’s Kutupalong Hospital are increasing in complexity. Children are arriving later, sicker, and with multiple overlapping vulnerabilities, particularly malnutrition and mental health distress.

At the same time, primary healthcare capacity, referral pathways, and services provided by other organisations in the Cox’s Bazar camps are shrinking due to funding cuts and putting increasing pressure on MSF facilities.

100 days since the Ebola disease outbreak was declared in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), communities are not receiv...
24/08/2026

100 days since the Ebola disease outbreak was declared in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), communities are not receiving adequate support to contain the disease.

This outbreak has become the largest and deadliest in the country’s history, and it continues to spread at an alarming rate within communities who already contend with conflict, violence, displacement, and hunger, among other health emergencies, in their daily lives.

Over the past week, deaths due to Ebola disease have been reported at a rate of roughly one every half hour. Since the outbreak began and as of 16 August, national authorities have reported more than 5,000 confirmed cases and over 2,400 deaths.

On the evening of 21 August, as people were returning home from work, Russian forces struck one of the largest shopping ...
24/08/2026

On the evening of 21 August, as people were returning home from work, Russian forces struck one of the largest shopping centres in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, with drones. The city is around 60 kilometres from the frontline. The attack came in two waves: around half an hour after the first strike caused a fire, a second strike hit while emergency responders were working at the scene.

At least 16 people were reportedly killed and 130 injured, including children. Nine people remain missing, and search operations are ongoing.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the city with ambulance services during mass-casualty events. Following the attack, MSF paramedics transferred a 16-year-old girl from a hospital in Kryvyi Rih to a hospital in Dnipro for specialised care.

“A patient had sustained blast injuries while on the ground floor of the shopping centre, choosing a jumper. She was stable during the transfer and received oxygen, infusions and other necessary care. She required anaesthesia. After the transfer, doctors urgently prepared her for surgery to remove a fragment lodged in her forehead.” - Borys Mitiai, MSF paramedic

Meanwhile, hospitals and healthcare workers in Ukraine continue to come under attack on a weekly, and sometimes daily, basis.

On the morning of 22 August, the district hospital in Snihurivka, Mykolaiv region, which has a long-standing partnership with MSF, including support for tuberculosis screening, was reportedly hit by drones. Fortunately, no medical staff or patients were injured.

The appalling pattern of attacks outlined in MSF report “No safe place to heal” continues. Healthcare and civilians must be protected. Healthcare facilities and medical workers must be safe.

22/08/2026

"If we don't work together, Ebola will spread more and more. It will have an impact on the most forgotten people."

Ludovic Levadoux recently returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo as a logistics team leader. He speaks with ABC Radio Illawarra about his time supporting MSF's Ebola disease outbreak response

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC is now the deadliest in the country’s history, with more than 2,300 deaths and over 4,900 confirmed cases.

22/08/2026

To mark World Humanitarian Day, MSF Australia’s humanitarian affairs lead Arunn Jegan joined Felicity Gray, global head of policy and advocacy at Peaceforce, and Carol Angir, deputy head of programs at Australia, for a discussion chaired by Amra Lee, PhD candidate at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs,, Australian National University.

The discussion focused on what’s next for Australia’s leadership on the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel . Chief amongst these points, is how we must not allow the Declaration to become another statement of intent. Arunn described the dangers that aid-workers and aid itself are facing, and how that is contributing to poorer health outcomes for people in Sudan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Palestine.

International humanitarian law already requires the protection of civilians, medical personnel and humanitarian workers. What is too often missing is compliance, humanitarian access, credible investigation and accountability.

The real test of the Declaration will therefore be what happens next: whether governments use their diplomatic, political and legal influence to prevent attacks, respond when international law is violated, and ensure those responsible are held to account. “The protection promised by international law has to mean something on the ground,” said Arunn.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the decision by the Israeli Military Advocate General (MAG) to close, w...
21/08/2026

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the decision by the Israeli Military Advocate General (MAG) to close, without opening a criminal investigation, the cases MSF itself submitted for review: the multiple attacks on an MSF convoy in Gaza City in November 2023 that killed two, and the February 2024 strike on an MSF shelter in Khan Younis that killed two and injured six.

Unfortunately, this does not come as a surprise. These responses come nearly two years after MSF’s request was submitted, which was followed by a submission to the Israeli High Court of Justice challenging the MAG’s failure to provide any answer to our formal requests.

This is not justice. Two years of silence, followed by closures that raise more questions than they answer, is unacceptable. However, it is the predictable output of a military apparatus investigating itself: a system which has demonstrated itself unwilling to respond to the extent of violations that may amount to war crimes emerging from Gaza.

MSF staff and their family members are dead. Their names are known. Their locations were shared. Their vehicles were identified. We have always maintained that all elements point to a clear responsibility of the Israeli army for the deadly attacks. And yet, those responsible for their deaths have declined to pursue any criminal investigation.

MSF reaffirms what it has stated since the beginning of this violence: there is no military objective that justifies the wholesale sacrifice of civilians. And there is no internal military review that can substitute for genuine, independent, and impartial accountability.

We demand that the cases involving our colleagues be reviewed by an impartial investigative body.

To our colleagues we have lost, and to the countless civilians and humanitarian workers who have perished in Gaza: we will not let your deaths be filed away as procedural inevitabilities. You deserved protection. You deserve justice.

read the full statement: https://vist.ly/5fknt

21/08/2026

"I think we would expect that there's a greater accountability from the Israeli defence forces and that we would expect the Australian government to be pressing the Israeli authorities. And it was appreciated today that Minister Wong has expressed that outrage."

Tom Roth, executive director for MSF Australia speaks with ABC TV News about the Israeli Military’s decision to deny a criminal investigation into MSF killings and injuries.

MSF strongly condemns the decision by the Israeli Military Advocate General (MAG) to close, without opening a criminal investigation, the cases MSF itself submitted for review: the multiple attacks on an MSF convoy in Gaza City in November 2023 that killed two, and the February 2024 strike on an MSF shelter in Khan Younis that killed two and injured six.

This is not justice. Two years of silence, followed by closures that raise more questions than they answer, is unacceptable. However, it is the predictable output of a military apparatus investigating itself: a system which has demonstrated itself unwilling to respond to the extent of violations that may amount to war crimes emerging from Gaza.

The destruction of healthcare in Ukraine is not a random consequence of war, it is deliberate and calculated. Our report...
19/08/2026

The destruction of healthcare in Ukraine is not a random consequence of war, it is deliberate and calculated.

Our report “No Safe Place to Heal,” documents relentless attacks on healthcare and medical personnel in Ukraine, which appear to constitute a deliberate strategy to destroy the medical system and collectively punish the population - rather than being an incidental product of Russia's invasion.

Read the report here: https://msf.org.au/document/no-safe-place-heal

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