Children who have survived malnutrition can have long-term health consequences that need to be addressed early enough so as to not cause irreversible damage. Project Update - 4 Aug 2025

Damaged residential buildings and cars.

Reports indicate strikes on homes, hospitals, schools, and universities in residential areas where families with children live. At least 8 people were reportedly killed during last night, including a six-year-old child, and more than 100 injured — among them, children.
In recent months, attacks on Kyiv have become more frequent. Since the full-scale invasion by Russian forces in 2022, many people have come to the city seeking safety — now, even here, they are at risk. Kyiv is also home to major hospitals that provide specialised care. Patients with serious or complex medical needs are often transferred here from other parts of the country. Attacks on the city put both this care and the people who depend on it in danger.

“MSF in Ukraine is witnessing the devastating, continuous impact of intensified airstrikes on cities and residential areas across the country,” says Ainur Absemetova, MSF’s Head of Mission. “These attacks not only destroy homes and essential infrastructure like schools, hospitals, power and water systems — they also undermine people’s sense of safety and dignity, leaving them in a constant state of fear and uncertainty. This ongoing terror intensifies existing trauma, deepens insecurity, anxiety and increases the urgent need for emergency medical and psychological support.”

War in Ukraine

Increasing bombardment in Kyiv threatens lives and medical care

Kyiv, Ukraine has came under heavy attack by drones and missiles, with strikes on homes and hospitals, threatening lives and medical care. Press Release - 31 Jul 2025

MSF clinician Kenneth Mwangi(right) analyses patient data with Marsabit county health records person at Laisamis sub-county hospital Jameson Ledany as part of on job training.

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Portrait of Emad at la pointe rouge, Marseille. Emad, 36, was evacuated from Gaza to France in March 2025. He has worked for MSF for the past 9 years in Gaza, as medical team leader and head of nursing activities. Originally from Jabalia camp in Northern Gaza, he recently arrived in Marseille with his wife and three daughters. One of them, Sila, 7, has a heart disease and was already waiting for a medical evacuation before October 2023. Marseille, France, June 2025.

Gaza-Israel war

Leaving Gaza: a medical evacuation

Emad, a father from Gaza, Palestine, was evacuated with his family to France. In this documentary, he recounts what they endured during the war. Documentary - 30 Jul 2025

“La consolidación de la consulta de planificación familiar ha sido un gran logro durante mi trabajo en Médicos Sin Fronteras. Las pacientes son atendidas por un equipo médico especializado compuesto por personal de MSF y personal del hospital previamente capacitado”. Jusluis, Médico Gineco-obstetra de MSF.

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“The consolidation of the family planning consult has been a great achievement during my work at Médecins Sans Frontières. Patients are seen by a specialised medical team composed of MSF staff and previously trained hospital staff,” says Jusluis, MSF obstetrician-gynecologist.

Women's health

US plan to destroy US$9.7 million of contraceptives is unconscionable

MSF condemns the decision of the US government to destroy critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work. Press Release - 29 Jul 2025

Sandra, superviseuse en charge de la protection chez MSF, anime une séance d’information avec des femmes et jeunes filles survivantes de violences sexuelles dans la salle d’attente du centre de santé de Mugunga 3 à Goma. Elles attendent leur tour pour passer dans la tente de triage.

Sandra, an MSF supervisor, leads an information session with sexual violence survivors in the waiting room of the Mugunga 3 Health Centre in Goma. The patients are waiting to enter the triage tent.

Democratic Republic of Congo

For women in eastern DRC, nowhere is safe from sexual violence

In Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MSF teams continue to record alarming numbers of sexual violence cases, with hundreds of victims and survivors seeking care at health centres each week. Project Update - 29 Jul 2025

South Sudan

MSF condemns abduction of Health Ministry staff in southern South Sudan

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the abduction of a Ministry of Health staff member from an MSF ambulance in South Sudan’s Morobo County. Press Release - 27 Jul 2025

Asma’u sits beside her child Shamsiya who is admitted for malnutrition at the Kofar Suari Inpatient Therapeutic Feeding Centre, Katsina, Katsina state.

Nigeria

Mobilisation is urgently needed to avoid further deaths from northern Nigeria malnutrition crisis

In the first six months of 2025, our teams treated nearly 70,000 children for malnutrition in Katsina state in northern Nigeria. Press Release - 25 Jul 2025

A Palestinian mother identified as Donia Alouf, 33 years old and her son 1 year old Ahmed, who was diagnosed with malnutrition. Donia receives medical assistance in Gaza clinic in Gaza city. She is 8 months pregnant, she herself is also malnourished.

Gaza-Israel war

MSF finds one in four young children and pregnant women malnourished at Gaza facilities

At screenings in our facilities in Gaza last week, 25 per cent of young children and pregnant women were malnourished. Press Release - 25 Jul 2025

In the village of Anjara, west of Aleppo city, there are clear signs of the nearly 14-year-long war—destroyed buildings and a lack of signs of life.

The MSF mobile team provides primary healthcare to people who have recently returned to Anjara and other rural areas in Aleppo governorate.

Syria

MSF expands support to respond to people’s unmet needs across Syria

Our teams provide assistance to people in need across Syria, including in areas previously under the control of the former government, where we had not been granted authorization to operate. Project Update - 24 Jul 2025

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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MSF treats the long-term consequences of malnutrition among children in Nigeria