In response to the EU Crisis Regulation, MSF calls upon European States to prioritise the safety of people seeking sanctuary, and cease the instrumentalisation of human suffering. Statement - 6 Oct 2023

MSF teams providing mental health consultation and psychological first aid to people fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh. Goris, Syunik province, southern Armenia, September 28, 2023

Armenia

MSF offers mental health support to people displaced from Nagorno-Karabakh

Following an attack from Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabakh, more than 100,000 people have fled for Armenia, where our teams are addressing people's mental health needs. Project Update - 6 Oct 2023

Elena* from Donetsk. She lost her eldest son, who was killed by shelling and bombardment. Her son was a doctor and involved in humanitarian activities in their region.

*name was changed to protect identity

Russia

Belgorod: Supporting people displaced by violence

In Belgorod, Russia, we are working in partnership with a local NGO to support people who have been displaced due to violence in the Ukraine-Russia border region. Project Update - 4 Oct 2023

Returnees from Sudan gather to fetch water from a supply point in Renk transit centre, Upper Nile state.

South Sudan

Aid woefully inadequate for returnees stuck in deplorable conditions in Renk

Nearly 300,000 South Sudanese fleeing the conflict in Sudan have returned to their homeland and are now stuck in deplorable conditions, at risk of measles, malaria and malnutrition. Press Release - 3 Oct 2023

The small city of Talat Nyakoub, 95km south of Marrakesh, has been severely affected. Many buildings collapsed, but a few dozen standing in the center.

Morocco

Mental health needs a priority after Moroccan earthquake

Three weeks after the devastating earthquake in Morocco, our teams are providing psychological support to people affected, as hopes fade of rescue teams finding survivors. Project Update - 2 Oct 2023

The Sudanese Ministry of Health staff starting a measles vaccination campaign in the Um Sangour camp camp in the White Nile state. In June, MSF teams started supporting the provision of primary healthcare in three Ministry of Health (MoH) run clinics in the White Nile state camps of Um Sangour, Al Alagaya and Khor Ajwal, which hosts Sudanese population displaced from Khartoum. MSF teams are providing general healthcare, assisting patients with medical referrals, treating suspected measles cases, and supporting the inpatient therapeutic feeding centre at the hospital outskirts of the Al Kashafa refugee camp.

Photo: Mazin Al-Hadi

Conflict in Sudan

Overwhelming needs in White Nile as conflict pushes people to limit

With nearly half a million people who have been displaced living across 10 camps in the White Nile, Sudan, the situation has reached a critical point, with people living in destitution and at risk of malnutrition. Voices from the Field - 28 Sep 2023

Armenia

Nagorno Karabakh: MSF prepares to respond to people fleeing to Armenia

In the wake of violence erupting in Nagorno-Karabakh, a self autonomous region in Azerbaijan, thousands of people have fled to Armenia, where MSF teams are preparing to respond to their needs. Press Release - 27 Sep 2023

Libya

Mental health support needed after Storm Daniel destroys Derna

Two weeks after the devastation of Storm Daniel on Derna, Libya, our teams on the ground have begun mental heath support for people affected in the region. Interview - 27 Sep 2023

Farmers pick cotton on a farm land near Abdurafi. Workers who often work at night and will sleep in the fields are more exposed to the risks of kala-azar and snakebite. This young mostly male population is affected by a relatively high prevalence of HIV infection. The combination is a further challenge for effectively treating patients, and is almost impossible to cure. While a patient with a healthy immune system treated for kala azar will develop an immunity against the disease that will last for many years, HIV co-infected patients cannot generate this immunity so they will keep relapsing and eventually become unresponsive to treatment and die.

Ethiopia

Two decades of combatting the world’s most neglected diseases

In Ethiopia, our teams have been responding to two of the world's deadliest and most neglected diseases for 20 years. Here are nine quick facts about our lifesaving work in the region. Project Update - 26 Sep 2023

Vaishnavi, a 7-year-old DRTB (Drug Resistant Tuberculosis) patient interacts with Prachi, an MSF nurse as her mother Vishaka holds her.

TACTiC – Test, Avoid, Cure Tuberculosis in Children

Commitments made in today's UN TB Declaration to scale up TB testing and treatment, and improve TB care for children, require immediate, concrete action

MSF welcomes the second-ever UN Political Declaration on tuberculosis in which world leaders committed to ramp up TB testing, treatment and prevention, and to close the deadly gaps in all these areas for adults and children. msfaccess.org - 22 Sep 2023

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 statement in response to the EU “Crisis Regulation”