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How MSF is responding to the earthquake in Afghanistan

Afghanistan, Sept. 2 -- Just before midnight on August 31, a magnitude 6 earthquake struck Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, near its border with Pakistan. Local sources report more than 1,400 people ... Read More


After 10 years and 1 million patients treated, MSF hands over Mother and Child Hospital in Yemen

Yemen, Aug. 28 -- Since 2015, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has operated the Mother and Child Hospital in Al-Houban, a city in Yemen's Taiz governorate-one of the few faciliti... Read More


A timeline of the Rohingya crisis

Bangladesh, Aug. 26 -- Originally published on August 23, 2019 Eight years after the mass exodus of Rohingya people from Myanmar,their future looks as uncertain as ever. Uprooted from their homelandb... Read More


Shattered hearts and lost memories in Gaza: Sabreen's story

Palestine, Aug. 26 -- Sabreen Almaseri is a physiotherapist who has been working for Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) for five years. On August 19, Israeli forces destroyed her h... Read More


MSF denounces Israel's strikes on Nasser Hospital today

Palestine, Aug. 25 -- Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) condemns Israel's deadly strikes on Nasser Hospital today, a hospital that MSF supports. This attack killed at least 20 pe... Read More


"We are still here": The taro leaf as a metaphor for the Rohingya experience

Bangladesh, Aug. 25 -- Ruhul Amin was fleeing a targeted campaign of extreme violence in his home country of Myanmar, along with 700,000 other Rohingya people, when he met Arunn Jegan in 2017 in Bangl... Read More


MSF denounces Israel's strikes on Nasser Hospital

Palestine, Aug. 25 -- Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) condemns Israel's deadly strikes on Nasser Hospital today, a hospital that MSF supports. This attack killed at least 20 pe... Read More


Expanding Health Services for Patients in Hard-to-Reach Places

Santa Barbara, California, Aug. 22 -- Over the past week, Direct Relief has shipped 769 shipments of requested medical aid to 47 U.S. states and territories and 14 countries worldwide . The shipment... Read More


Gaza City offensive sows destruction and displacement

Palestine, Aug. 22 -- As Israeli forces begin a major offensive in Gaza City, Amande Bazerolle, Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) head of emergency response, shared the following ... Read More


Israel is intentionally depriving Palestinians of water

Palestine, Aug. 21 -- After 22 months of Israel destroying and restricting access to critical water infrastructure, the amount of water available in Gaza is wholly insufficient. Israel is deliberatel... Read More