Preview: Swift mental health response for migrants and asylum seekers crossing the US-Mexico border

Swift mental health response for migrants and asylum seekers crossing the US-Mexico border

MSF teams in Arizona are assisting local volunteer organizations that provide migrants with aid, mental health care, and information after crossing the US border.

AI-Powered Snake Identification: Improving Response to Snakebite Envenoming in South Sudan

AI-Powered Snake Identification: Improving Response to Snakebite Envenoming in South Sudan

By Dr Gabriel Alcoba, Medical Advisor, Snakebite/Neglected Tropical Diseases at MSF

International Snakebite Awareness Day: “I’d never seen anything like it”

International Snakebite Awareness Day: “I’d never seen anything like it”

Ahead of International Snakebite Awareness Day, we hear from Dr Paul Snape about his experiences treating people for snakebite in an MSF programme in South Sudan. When he is not working for MSF, Dr Snape splits his time in the UK between working in general practice and the emergency department of a London hospital.

MSF donates 710 kilogrammes of medical supplies to assist wounded patients across South Lebanon and Beirut

Following the attacks in Lebanon on 17 September, where close to 2,800 people were wounded according to the Ministry of Public Health, MSF immediately reached out to health actors including hospitals to provide support.

Gaza: MSF opens a second field hospital in Deir Al Balah

Gaza: MSF opens a second field hospital in Deir Al Balah

As Israeli forces continue to bomb Gaza, the health system is on its knees. Today, MSF opened a second field hospital in Deir Al Balah and have begun outpatient consultations. The expansion of other services depends on Israeli authorities, who have delayed supplies entering Gaza.

‘Fleeing danger, finding water scarcity': sanitary emergency threatens people in Abyei Special Administrative Area - South Sudan

Juba, South Sudan, 16 September 2024 – A water, sanitation and hygiene crisis is unfolding in Abyei Special Administrative Area, fuelling the ongoing hepatitis E outbreak, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

MSF statement on channel crossing deaths this weekend

MSF raises alarm over cuts to food rations for Sudanese refugees in Eastern Chad

MSF closes operations in the Russian Federation

Catastrophic situation in Zamzam camp, Sudan: every effort must be made to finally deliver food, medicines and essential supplies to blockaded and starved communities

Paris, 13 September - As the results of a nutrition screening carried out by the Sudanese health authorities and Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) earlier this month in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, indicate a catastrophic nutritional situation that is only getting worse.

Food and humanitarian response lacking one month after floods in Koukou, eastern Chad

Chad, 11 September 2024 – The situation in Koukou Angarana, in Sila province, Chad, and its surroundings remains critical after the devastating floods on 9 August.

Detention of MSF rescue ship is suspended by Italian court

MSF statement on Channel crossing deaths:"responsibility lies with the French and British governments”

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