Between humanitarian crises and medical emergencies: all the latest news
Ethiopia
Health facilities targeted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Health facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to teams from MSF.
Ethiopia
Tigray Crisis: “We are suffering from a lack of medical care”
Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. Inside Tigray, most of the displaced people stay with the host community, while tens of thousands live in informal sites or are still hiding in the bush or the mountains.
Open letter to governments
Countries must stop blocking and move toward formal negotiations on pandemic monopoly waiver at WTO.
Syria
MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing
In the wake of the killing of one of its staff members and the injury of three others in Al-Hol camp for displaced people in northeast Syria, MSF expresses its shock and sadness at the incidents and its profound concerns about the insecurity facing camp residents, two-thirds of whom are children.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bringing family planning closer to home
Self-injectable options can overcome barriers to contraception in DRC.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
MSF starts intervention in North Kivu in support of community affected by EBOLA
Less than a year after the end of two Ebola outbreaks in the country, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces the 12th Ebola outbreak in hits history
Yemen
Severe malnutrition in northern Yemen
There are many reasons why we are seeing malnourished children in Abs, but most of them are connected to the brutal, six-year long conflict that has plagued Yemen since 2015.
South Africa
Southern Africa needs the right COVID vaccines, at the right price – right now
MSF urges wealthy countries and pharma companies to immediately equitably distribute the right vaccines, at the right price, to low- and middle-income countries.
Self-care tips for managing your own health
Take charge of your own health by becoming more familiar with your body and monitoring it regularly.
Self-Care
Self-care means giving people the tools, the information and the choice to take a central role in their own health and healthcare. It's an approach that MSF is supporting for more and more people around the world, because we have seen how it can improve access and quality of healthcare.