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MSF has been responding to the disease outbreaks and emergency health needs in Nigeria since 1996. Today, we are a worldwide movement of over 67,000 people.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is an international medical humanitarian organization. We provide free medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare in more than 80 countries. We are a not-for-profit organisation and our actions are strictly guided by medical ethics. We are:

Impartial – We do not disc

riminate based on religion, ethnicity or political affiliations. Independent – We are privately funded

Neutral – We do not take sides in a conflict. During and after emergencies, MSF teams provide essential healthcare, rehabilitate and run hospitals and clinics, performs surgeries, respond to epidemics, carry out vaccination campaigns, operate feeding centres for malnourished children and offer psychological support. When needed, we also rehabilitate or construct wells or boreholes, dispense clean drinking water and distribute materials like blankets, buckets and other basic necessities to people who need them. MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors.

11/08/2026

What is therapeutic food?

This is a nutrient rich food product used to treat malnutrition, mainly in children. In Nigeria, MSF uses two types of therapeutic food in most of our projects: Plumpy’Nut and Tom Brown. What are they?

Plumpy’Nut is a specially formulated therapeutic food designed to treat severe acute malnutrition, while Tom Brown is a traditional Nigerian recipe made from a blend of nutritious grains including sorghum, soya beans, and groundnuts and can be used to treat children with less severe forms of malnutrition and helps prevent deterioration into severe malnutrition.

Here are 3 reasons why MSF uses therapeutic food to treat malnutrition:
✅ Rich in calories to help children gain weight, grow, and regain their strength.
✅ Packed with essential nutrients including proteins, vitamins, and minerals needed for healthy development and recovery.
✅ Children love the taste, making it easier for them to eat regularly and complete their treatment.

At MSF-supported nutrition programmes, therapeutic food plays a vital role in helping malnourished children recover and return to healthy growth. MSF supports State Ministries of Health in Zamfara, Katsina, Kebbi, Borno, Bauchi, Sokoto, and Kano to provide lifesaving care for malnourished children, treating more than 400,000 children for malnutrition in 2025.

10/08/2026

MSF Nigeria now has a WhatsApp Channel!🎉

Follow our channel to stay informed about MSF's medical and humanitarian work across Nigeria.

You'll get:
📌 Stories from patients, communities, and field teams
📌 Project activities and field updates
📌 Job vacancies and career opportunities
📌 Updates on trainings, workshops, research, and key MSF events
📌 Staff spotlights and team stories
📌 Health information, public health awareness content, and more

👉 Scan the QR code or click the link to follow the channel today
https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbDFzGU9WtC1qDjdCT37

05/08/2026

Five-year-old Abubakar Sadiq Umar was admitted to Zurmi General Hopital after falling ill with malaria during the rainy season. He developed severe fever and vomiting.

Abubakar is one of the many children who fall ill during the rainy season in northwestern Nigeria, particularly in Zamfara State, where the rains often bring distress, disease and preventable deaths. For communities already affected by years of armed violence, displacement and poverty, daily survival between May and September becomes a struggle as flooding, outbreaks of infectious diseases, and worsening food insecurity come together.

As rainwater gathers in stagnant pools, diseases spread rapidly. Malaria cases surge, cholera outbreaks erupt, and other waterborne illnesses like typhoid fever increase, especially among pregnant women and children. The rains also coincide with the lean season, when food stocks are exhausted and new harvests are still months away. The resultant undernutrition weakens immune systems, turning common illnesses into deadly threats, particularly for children.

Each year, MSF scales up its emergency response across northern Nigeria to meet the predictable surge in medical needs during the rainy season. Yet many of these illnesses and deaths could be prevented.

04/08/2026

Noma is a devastating but preventable disease that mostly affects young children living in extreme poverty. It starts as a small infection in the mouth but can rapidly destroy the tissue and bone in the face. Without early treatment, it is fatal in up to 90% of cases.

The good news is that noma can be prevented with good nutrition, vaccination, oral hygiene, and early treatment of common infections. When detected early, it can be treated with antibiotics, wound care, and nutritional support.

In Sokoto, MSF provides comprehensive care for people affected by noma in the Noma Children Hospital, including reconstructive surgery, nutritional support, psychosocial care, and community outreach activities aimed at promoting early detection, improving access to treatment, and reducing stigma associated with the disease.

Watch this video to learn the signs of noma, how it can be prevented, and why early treatment saves lives.

31/07/2026

Meet Ihendu Ikechukwu, a driver at the MSF project in Anambra state.

“My journey with MSF began in 2018 as a driver in the Abakaliki Lassa Fever Project. In and from 2022 to 2024, I served as a Radio Operator until the end of my contract. I returned to MSF on 1 December 2025 as a daily worker driver in the Anambra Project and became a Contract Driver in February 2026, a role I proudly hold today.

Working with MSF has given me valuable experience and taught me essential skills, including defensive driving, daily vehicle inspections, basic mechanics, speed management, eco-driving, and effective radio communication. These skills are critical in ensuring the safety of passengers, vehicles, and operations.

As an MSF driver, my role goes beyond transportation. I help move patients, medical teams, and essential supplies safely to where they are needed most. Whether navigating difficult roads or supporting emergency response efforts, I take pride in contributing to the delivery of lifesaving healthcare services. As drivers, we often find safe routes in challenging environments and play a key role in ensuring that healthcare reaches vulnerable communities.

What motivates me most is knowing that my work directly supports patient care and humanitarian action. Knowing that every safe trip contributes to saving lives and reducing suffering gives me a strong sense of purpose.

Working with MSF means upholding the humanitarian values of impartiality, neutrality, and independence. I believe that healthcare is a universal right and that saving lives comes before borders, politics, or backgrounds. At MSF, doctors, logisticians, and all staff —both local and international work together as one team to bring hope and care to people in crisis.”

30/07/2026

Seventeen-year-old Hadiza Rabiu was admitted to MSF supported Cholera treatment center in Maiduguri after developing cholera symptoms.

“We arrived by ourselves, not by ambulance. Hadiza started having stomach pain and diarrhoea and was feeling very dizzy. We know that there is a surge of suspected cholera in the town, so we rushed here. Hadiza is the only one in our community who has suspected cholera. First, we went to another hospital, but they told us to come here. We don’t know she got affected. She feels better now that she had treatment.” Says Aisha Usman, mother to Hadiza.

Hadiza is one of thousands of people affected by suspected cholera since the first patients were reported on 1 May 2026. As of 12 July, the Borno state Ministry of Health (MoH) had reported more than 35,500 patients with suspected cholera and 198 deaths in the state. As of the same date, MSF had treated over 24,000 patients with suspected cholera since responding to the surge, with over one in four presenting with severe symptoms.

MSF is responding to the surge in collaboration with health
authorities and other humanitarian organisations. Across Borno state, MSF now supports two Cholera Treatment Centres and five Cholera Treatment Units - specialised facilities providing inpatient care for people with severe symptoms of suspected cholera – alongside 17 oral rehydration points which offer treatment closer to affected communities.

28/07/2026

MSF successfully conducts reconstructive surgery for children affected by noma disease

MSF and the Ministry of Health (MoH) have successfully completed 2026’s first round of reconstructive surgeries for survivors of noma disease at the MSF-supported Noma Children's Hospital in Sokoto, Nigeria.

Between 17 April and 1 May, teams of Nigerian and international surgeons performed life-changing reconstructive surgeries for 55 noma survivors from across the country.

Noma is a preventable, non-contagious disease that mainly affects children under seven years old living in extreme poverty. Without early treatment, noma destroys facial tissues and bones and is fatal for up to 90%. Those who survive face lifelong disfigurement and stigma.

Despite noma being formally recognised by the World Health Organization as a neglected tropical disease in 2023, it remains largely invisible within the Nigerian healthcare system.

Since 2014, MSF has been supporting the Nigerian Ministry of Health’s Noma Children’s Hospital in Sokoto, one of the few in the world that specializes in treatment of noma. Here, MSF provides comprehensive care for children and adults affected by noma, including reconstructive surgery, nutritional support, psychosocial care, and community outreach activities aimed at promoting early detection, improving access to treatment, and reducing stigma associated with the disease.

27/07/2026

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was founded in 1971 in France by a group of doctors and journalists in the wake of war and famine in Biafra, Nigeria. Their aim was to establish an independent organisation that focuses on delivering emergency medicine aid quickly, effectively and impartially.

24/07/2026

Meet Comfort Binta David, Health Promotion Supervisor at MSF.

"My name is Comfort Binta David, and I joined MSF in 2017. Over the past nine years, I have grown through several roles, starting as a hygiene agent, then community health educator, health promotion officer and now health promotion supervisor.

Working with MSF has taught me that successful health interventions depend on trust, strong community relationships, and culturally sensitive communication. I have learned the importance of addressing barriers such as low literacy, which can affect people's ability to adopt healthy behaviours.

I feel great working with MSF and serving communities as a health promotion supervisor. What motivates me most is the impact MSF has on the communities it serves. We support people in vulnerable positions, provide lifesaving care free of charge and work to improve the health and wellbeing of those who need it most.
Working with MSF is a life-changing, intense and deeply rewarding experience. It is a commitment to providing medical care to people regardless of race, religion or political affiliation. My work continually leaves me with a renewed sense of purpose, humility and dedication to humanitarian service."

Health promotion plays a vital role in our projects by strengthening community engagement, building trust and supporting people to make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing.

22/07/2026

In Borno state, northeastern Nigeria, thousands of people have been affected by a rapid surge in suspected cholera, leaving healthcare facilities overwhelmed while healthcare workers struggle to keep pace.

Among those affected is 13-year-old Muhammad Usman, who was brought by an ambulance to the MSF-supported Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) in Maiduguri after developing symptoms.

"He started vomiting, had diarrhoea and complained of stomach pain," says Hadiza Ali, Muhammad’s mother. "Later, he lost consciousness. We realised it could be cholera.”

Muhammad is one of thousands of people affected since the first patients with suspected cholera were reported on 1 May 2026. Infections have risen rapidly, driven by overcrowded informal settlements, limited access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and poor waste management. As of 12 July, the Borno state Ministry of Health (MoH) had reported more than 35,500 patients with suspected cholera and 198 deaths in the state.

As the transmission has intensified, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the surge in collaboration with health authorities and other humanitarian organisations.

With health facilities under sustained pressure and new infections continuing to emerge, strengthening access to clean water, sanitation, surveillance and timely treatment is critical. Furthermore, vaccination campaigns must urgently be expanded across affected areas to help slow transmission and prevent further loss of life.

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