Healthcare, hunger and 'shared humanity': How MSF teams are tackling malnutrition
There’s a health condition which affects around one child in every 16 worldwide. It can be deadly in itself, but it puts people at increased...
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UK asylum: Hope and healing in a mental health crisis
The word healing can mean different things. Around the world, MSF teams are caring for people caught in conflict zones, escaping violence, o...
Ebola in DRC: Suiting up and saving lives
The current outbreak of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become the third largest on record. It is also the f...
Palliative care in MSF projects: Reducing suffering and putting patients first
Right now, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams are working to provide life-saving care in crises around the world...
Snakebite, malaria and Gaza: The science of saving lives
Every May in London, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hosts Scientific Days , an annual innovation conference. The e...
Sudan: Spiralling needs after three years of crisis
April marked a sobering milestone: the three-year anniversary of the ongoing war in Sudan. The scale of the crisis has become enormous, with...
Afghanistan: How do you respond to a 'mass casualty incident'?
For the past weeks, the world’s media has been focused on the crisis in the Middle East. The sharp escalation in violence has brought fear t...
What next for medical aid in Gaza?
Last year in Gaza, MSF assisted in one in three births, supported one in five hospital beds, and provided 800,000 medical consultations. Thi...
A crisis in the crossfire: Making childbirth safer in Northern Nigeria
In Northern Nigeria, the conflict between government forces and armed groups is hitting communities hard. Vast numbers have been forced to f...
Moments that mattered: MSF's life-saving work in 2025
For this special episode of Everyday Emergency, we’re taking a look back at MSF’s work over the last 12 months. This year, MSF teams were on...
The unexpected power of play: Healing children in humanitarian crises
In almost any humanitarian crisis – from disease outbreaks to conflict zones – children are among the most vulnerable. Last year alone, almo...
Art in the aftermath: Ella Baron on assignment in Ukraine
The artist and political cartoonist Ella Baron has recently returned from Ukraine, where she worked with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors...
Ukraine: From bylines to the frontlines
In February 2022, Yuliia Trofimova was a journalist living in Eastern Ukraine, where she’s from. With the violent escalation of the conflict...
"We built a hospital in a house": An MSF medic returns from Syria
War has taken a heavy toll on the people of Syria. Since 2011, 14 million Syrians have had to flee the violence that wracked the country. Th...
The E-Team: Inside MSF's emergency response unit with Dr Natalie Roberts
When a crisis hits, our emergency specialists - known as the E-Team - launch into life-saving action to coordinate the response. In this epi...
AMR: A threat hidden in plain sight
In places where MSF operates, getting access to the right antibiotics is a matter of life or death - but what happens when they stop working...
Eastern DRC: Critical care in a complex place
In the latest episode of Everyday Emergency, we’re looking at the humanitarian crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DR...
The Debrief: Dr Javid Abdelmoneim on the crisis in Sudan
Two years ago, MSF doctor Javid Abdelmoneim received a cryptic message from his cousin in Khartoum that said "Your dad is safe". But safe fr...
The Debrief: Chris Lockyear, MSF Secretary General
In crisis zones across the world, hospitals have been attacked, supply trucks blockaded and funding cut. So, what is the state of humanitari...
Rebuilding lives: Inside a specialist war-wound hospital
At a groundbreaking hospital in the Jordanian capital Amman, a dedicated team from Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)...