Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides medical care where it is needed most in nearly 70 countries.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an independent international humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency medical aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters or exclusion from health care in more than 60 countries. Every year MSF sends around 3,000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators and

other professionals to work alongside over 25,000 locally hired staff. Together they run medical projects in more than 60 countries around the world. In emergencies and their aftermath, MSF provides essential healthcare, rehabilitates and runs hospitals and clinics, performs surgery, tackles epidemics, carries out vaccination campaigns, operates feeding centres for malnourished children and offers psychological support. When needed, MSF also constructs wells and dispenses clean drinking water and distributes materials like blankets, plastic sheeting and other basic necessities. Through longer-term programmes, MSF treats patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and HIV/AIDS and provides medical and psychological care to marginalised groups such as street children. MSF was founded in 1971 as the first non-governmental organisation to provide both emergency medical assistance and bear witness publicly to the plight of the people it assists. MSF is an international network with branches in 23 countries.

29/05/2026

MSF International Secretary General Laura Leyser is in Singapore this week attending the Shangri-La Dialogue, one of Asia’s most significant foreign policy summits and today she joined BBC to speak about the Ebola crisis unfolding in DRC and Uganda, calling on countries to step up and help tackle it. The outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain: no approved vaccine, no proven treatment. MSF teams are working in Ituri alongside local health workers: setting up isolation units, tracing contacts, scaling up care. This is the 17th Ebola outbreak in the DRC since 1976, and MSF has been there, supporting and working alongside local health workers for the majority of them. The knowledge, experience and leadership of communities and health workers there is extraordinary. International support needs to match that.

22/05/2026

Around 43 million children worldwide suffer from acute , and at least 12.2 million are affected by its most severe form. The true figure may be twice as high.

To treat every child with severe acute malnutrition worldwide, would cost €2 billion.
A solution exists: A one-cent soda tax across wealthy nations to cover the funding gap.
Instead, the US dismantled USAID, severely disrupting access to care. Europe is cutting funding, withdrawing support rather than stepping in.

And millions of children are paying the price: this is a political choice, not an inevitability. The window to act is closing. Inaction is not an option.

In the coming weeks, we're sharing new episodes of our mini-series (r)evolution(s) which explores the medical breakthroughs that reshaped Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) approach to care, and highlights the innovations still urgently needed. New episodes looking into addressing cholera, malnutrition, and antimicrobial resistance -- three medical crises devastating the communities where we work.

🔗 Watch the full video here: https://youtu.be/YQPaddtDWMw

An Ebola outbreak has been declared in Ituri province, northeast DRC. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams are already on...
20/05/2026

An Ebola outbreak has been declared in Ituri province, northeast DRC. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams are already on the ground, working with health authorities to respond. The WHO has since declared this a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The outbreak has been identified across three health zones: Mongwalu, Bunia, and Rwampara in Ituri province.

At our Salama clinic in Bunia, suspected cases have been identified and isolated, and medical teams are applying strict infection prevention measures. As of 19 May, 536 suspected cases, 134 suspected deaths, 34 confirmed cases and 8 confirmed deaths have been reported. The outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there is currently no approved vaccine and fatality rates for this strain are in the 25–40% range.

This is the DRC’s 17th Ebola outbreak. MSF has long experience responding to Ebola and is preparing to scale up its medical response to help contain the outbreak and support affected communities.

Read more here: https://doctorswithoutborders-apac.org/en/news/drc-doctors-without-borders-prepares-large-scale-response-to-ebola-outbreak

"I remember his resilience. He was still so cheerful, still positive."This is how Dr Lim Chin Siah, recalls a 12-year-ol...
19/05/2026

"I remember his resilience. He was still so cheerful, still positive."

This is how Dr Lim Chin Siah, recalls a 12-year-old Palestinian boy he met during his recent assignment with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza. The boy had just lost both parents when their home was bombed, surviving falling rubble but endured multiple amputations to his leg due to an untreated infection. Eventually his leg was removed at the thigh. And yet, he smiled.

Stories like his are what Dr Lim carries home from the field.

Our Singapore-based emergency medicine doctor has served across 17 projects in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Ukraine and Sudan. Most recently, he returned in February 2026 after working in Gaza for three months. There he bore witness to the relentless toll of airstrikes, restricted supplies and wholly inadequate water supply on the Palestinians.

Behind the headlines coming out the world's conflict zones, families' daily lives are upended by violence beyond their control. Dr Lim has seen it firsthand... and he keeps going back to offer medical care to where its needed most.

Read his full story in The Straits Times — link in bio.
🔗 https://str.sg/3Zdpv

“Medical teams in both hospitals are working around the clock to treat those patients, whose injuries can go from minor ...
12/05/2026

“Medical teams in both hospitals are working around the clock to treat those patients, whose injuries can go from minor wounds to more severe ones, requiring advanced surgeries," says Dr Thienminh Dinh, a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) emergency doctor who spends her days between Qana hospital and Jabal Amel hospital, both in the district of Sour/Tyre.

Despite a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon being announced on 17 April, and later renewed for three additional weeks, attacks continue in south .

Israeli forces are conducting daily airstrikes, which have killed and injured hundreds of people. Evacuation orders continue to be issued, leading to the forcible displacement of thousands of people, while the destruction of homes and villages has not ceased during the previous weeks.

Due to the overwhelming needs, medical teams are forced to work up to 36 hours consecutively, at faster paces, and sometimes have to coordinate several surgical procedures on the same patient at the same time.

Hospitals in southern Lebanon, where MSF teams are collaborating with the Ministry of Public Health to treat patients, continue to receive wounded people. MSF's nationwide emergency response in Lebanon has reached communities across the country, deploying 25 mobile medical units and conducting over 35,000 medical consultations. Essential services, including water-trucking, hygiene kits, and emergency shelter supplies, have also been provided. The infographic above maps our presence and outlines our activities over the past two months.

Read more here: https://doctorswithoutborders-apac.org/en/news/ceasefire-people-still-killed-by-israeli-forces-southern-lebanon

Bangladesh is currently facing a surge of measles, posing a major public health concern. Cox’s Bazar, home to more than ...
11/05/2026

Bangladesh is currently facing a surge of measles, posing a major public health concern. Cox’s Bazar, home to more than 1.2 million refugees in the world’s largest refugee settlement, is among the areas most at risk.

Since March 2026, we have seen a significant surge in measles cases across the Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox’s Bazar. Overcrowded conditions and low vaccination coverage have created an emergency situation for this highly contagious disease.

MSF teams rapidly scaled up operations, including:
· A new isolation unit in Jamtoli Primary Healthcare Centre.
· Provision of treatment – including intensive care - in several health facilities
· Health promotion activities and support for the ongoing vaccination campaign.

Our teams are responding, but the pressure on healthcare facilities continues to grow.

See the full carousel to understand the situation in the Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox’s Bazar and MSF's medical response.

06/05/2026

Where is Resolution 2286?

The 3rd of May marks 10 years since the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted the resolution. Over 80 Member States committed to protect medical and medical humanitarian personnel, infrastructure, transport and equipment.

Yet in many of the areas affected by conflict where Doctors Without Borders (MSF) works today, hospitals, health workers and patients are being attacked. Hospitals are reduced to rubble, ambulances face delays and obstruction, and doctors, nurses and patients are too often caught in attacks that result in death and injury. Patients die from otherwise treatable wounds, women are sometimes forced to give birth without adequate care, and entire communities lose access to life-saving services.

MSF has teams working in over 70 countries around the world, including in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lebanon, Ukraine, Sudan and Myanmar, as well as other areas of conflict and war. In the last decade, 21 MSF staff have been killed in 15 incidents whilst undertaking their duties. In 2025 alone, the World Health Organization’s Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) reported a total of 1,348 attacks on medical facilities, resulting in the deaths of 1,981 people.

When health care is no longer safe, it is often the clearest warning sign that the rules and norms intended to limit the harm of war are breaking down. When hospitals and those who provide care come under attack, we face not only a humanitarian crisis, but a crisis of humanity.

Unfortunately, our message from 2016 still applies:

🔴 Stop bombing hospitals.
🔴 Stop bombing health workers.
🔴 Stop bombing patients.

This is an urgent joint call for action from Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the World Health Organization (WHO). We urge world leaders to act and show the needed political leadership to end this violence. Health care must never be a casualty of war.

04/05/2026

“We need water. It does not make sense. It’s like we are asking the world for the essentials of life.”
– Ali, a Palestinian displaced and living in a camp in Deir Al-Balah.

Testimonies like these from Gaza reveal the daily reality of extreme water scarcity and collapsing sanitation systems. Nearly 90% of water and sanitation infrastructure in Gaza, including desalination plants, boreholes, pipelines, and sewage systems have been systematically damaged. Families describe queuing for hours to access minimal amounts of water, being forced to use contaminated supplies, and living without basic hygiene or privacy.

The consequences of this deprivation of access to water are far-reaching on people’s health, basic hygiene, and dignity, particularly for women and people with disabilities. This deprivation, combined with dire living conditions, extreme overcrowding, and a collapsed health system, leads to increases in diseases, including respiratory infections, skin diseases, and diarrhoeal diseases.

Israeli authorities have used access to water as a weapon against Palestinians, systematically depriving people in Gaza, Palestine, of water in a campaign of collective punishment.

MSF’s report, Water as a Weapon: Israel’s Destruction and Deprivation of Water and Sanitation in Gaza, documents how the Israeli authorities’ repeated weaponisation of water are not isolated acts, but part of a recurrent, systematic and cumulative pattern. It is occurring alongside the direct killing of civilians, the devastation of health facilities, and the flattening of homes forcing mass displacement. Together, they constitute a deliberate infliction of destructive and inhumane conditions on Palestinians in Gaza.

MSF calls on the Israeli authorities to stop impeding humanitarian access and on UN Member States, especially the ones who maintain close ties to Israel and/or are part of the Board of Peace mechanism to take active steps to ensure this too.

📃 Read the report here: https://doctorswithoutborders-apac.org/en/resources/project-reports/water-as-a-weapon

30/04/2026

“This World Immunisation Week and beyond, I would like to see a safe, effective and affordable vaccine for tuberculosis, that when combined with sustained investments and other preventive strategies, as well as diagnostics and treatment regimens, we can finally see a decrease in global mortality from this disease.”
– Dr Saifullah Khan, deputy medical coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Islamabad,

kills more than one million people every year, yet a vaccine that protects adults and adolescents still does not exist. The only approved vaccine, BCG, offers some protection to young children against severe forms of the disease, but leaves older populations vulnerable, whether or not they have already been exposed. However, with several vaccine candidates in clinical development showing some promising initial results, there may soon be a viable tuberculosis vaccine that everyone can benefit from.

Learn more here: https://msfaccess.org/world-immunisation-week-2026

29/04/2026

“For 46 days, we were trapped without basic necessities to survive. We had no medical care or anything.”
– Hamad Darweesh, the secretary of the Jal El Bahr Palestinian community in Sour, where his family was displaced in 1948 because of the Nakba.

Following the announcement of a 10-day temporary ceasefire, a fragile sense of relief is overshadowed by uncertainty and fear that violence could resume at any moment. Despite months of Israeli forces’ bombardments, ground invasion, and forced displacement orders, many people in southern remained, often because they had no means to flee or feared losing their homes and livelihoods. Many endured devastating losses, including family members and homes, while living under constant threat of sudden strikes. According to OCHA, as of 10 April, at least 100,000 people were estimated to remain in “hard-to-reach" areas across Lebanon.

The psychological toll is immense. Many live on edge, surrounded by warplanes, artillery, and drones. MSF teams are witnessing alarming levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma – both among those who have endured prolonged violence and isolation, and among those returning home, not knowing whether they will find their houses standing or reduced to rubble.

We continue to call for an urgent scale-up of humanitarian aid and unhindered access to aid for people in need across the country.

Read more here: https://doctorswithoutborders-apac.org/en/stories/lebanon-after-46-days-under-continuous-attacks-israeli-forces

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