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The account of MSF International 🌎

We've been providing independent, impartial, and neutral humanitarian medical care since 1971.
👋 Meet Kemoh Kargbo, play counselor at our mother and child hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone! 

He helps children regain their strength after illness: “Play can really benefit children’s development and mental well-being. It fosters confidence, and lays a vital foundation for their mental health.”
December 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Seeking safety is not a crime.
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Dr Salah Eltahir is a surgeon in Somalia, working at our new fistula care unit in Baidoa. He tells us what fistula is, and why comprehensive treatment is so important 👇
December 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🤖 AI isn’t just for writing emails- it's for diagnosing tuberculosis, too!  

Check out how our team in Tondo, Philippines, uses AI-assisted radiography to interpret x-rays quickly and accurately ⬇️
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In Kenema, Sierra Leone, play is more than fun—it’s healing.  

📸 At our mother and child hospital, play therapy helps children regain confidence, overcome developmental delays, and build lifelong mental health resilience.
December 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
👋 Meet Helina Tsegaye! She is a counsellor with us in Tigray, Ethiopia. Helina has an important message to share:

“The brain is part of the body; just as the stomach can get sick, so can the mind. It is important to seek professional help when needed. Mental health care saves lives.”
December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
👋 Meet Nombuso Ntshalintshali, our laboratory manager at Sitsandziwe clinic in Eswatini!

Her lab uses a ‘test and treat’ approach, giving fast, accurate results for sexually transmitted infections so that patients can get targeted medications that reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance.
December 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Measles cases are rapidly rising across Central, South, and West Darfur, Sudan. Our teams are treating patients, and know that “countless lives could be saved” if an urgent measles vaccination campaign is launched:

Measles cases surge in Darfur | MSF
Our teams in Central, South, and West Darfur are seeing measles cases rise in the absence of an urgent and effective vaccination campaign.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Dr Zaid Seni sat down with us to discuss the legacy of our work in Beira, Mozambique, where we spent 11 years providing care to people living with HIV ⬇️

11 years of HIV care in Mozambique | MSF
We recently concluded our HIV prevention and treatment services in Beira, Mozambique. Our colleague reflects on the 11 years we cared for stigmatised groups in the community.
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December 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The city of El Fasher quickly became one of the most violent flashpoints in the raging war in Sudan.

We spoke with people from the city who are now living in Chad, to hear what El Fasher was like before the war, and what forced them to flee:

El Fasher under siege | MSF
Four people from El Fasher, Sudan, share their testimony about the destruction of their city.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Dr Zaid Seni worked with us in Mozambique for six years, providing care to stigmatised community members in Beira.

Now that our work in Beira has finished, he looks back at the 11 years we spent providing HIV care in the city ⬇️

11 years of HIV care in Mozambique | MSF
We recently concluded our HIV prevention and treatment services in Beira, Mozambique. Our colleague reflects on the 11 years we cared for stigmatised groups in the community.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Khader has a medical condition which requires a special formula for his nutrition. Living in Gaza, he has now gone two years without this formula, causing his medical condition to worsen.

Khader’s mother describes what it’s like to wait for his medical evacuation:
December 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
100,000+ people fled their homes in northern Mozambique a few weeks ago. The places where they are staying lack adequate shelter, sanitation services, and access to food.

How our teams are responding:
MSF begins emergency response in northern Mozambique | MSF
MSF teams are providing displaced people, and host communities, with medical care and essential services.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Throughout the war in Sudan, Noor, Mohammed, Mawahib, and Nasr have seen their city, El Fasher, bombed, besieged, and destroyed. Today, from a refugee camp in Chad, they use their phones to bear witness to the suffering in their neighbourhoods.

El Fasher under siege | MSF
Four people from El Fasher, Sudan, share their testimony about the destruction of their city.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“The shells didn’t differentiate between who was a civilian, or who was a small child.”

In our latest documentary, people from El Fasher, Sudan, describe what it was like living in the city before the war started, and what forced them to flee ⬇️

El Fasher under siege | MSF
Four people from El Fasher, Sudan, share their testimony about the destruction of their city.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
As part of an emergency response in northern Mozambique, where 100,000+ people fled their homes in recent weeks, our teams are providing:

🩺 Consultations
🤰 Maternity services
🧠 Mental health support

More on our activities:
MSF begins emergency response in northern Mozambique | MSF
MSF teams are providing displaced people, and host communities, with medical care and essential services.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“Things were okay back then. There was treatment, even if it was little. But now, there is nothing.”

Hanan, a mother from Gaza, Palestine, describes what it is like waiting for her to be medically evacuated:
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Cyclone Ditwah caused devastating floods and landslides across Sri Lanka.

We’re delivering tents and heavy plastic sheeting for people to use as shelter. More from our colleague, David Croft 👇
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A few weeks ago, 100,000+ people were forced to flee their homes in northern Mozambique.

Here’s how our team is responding ⬇️

MSF begins emergency response in northern Mozambique | MSF
MSF teams are providing displaced people, and host communities, with medical care and essential services.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Seeking safety is not a crime.
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
For nearly three years, we worked with communities in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Brazil to address high rates of malaria and mental health concerns ⬇️

MSF wraps up activities in northern Brazil | MSF
Over nearly three years, our work in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory strove to respect traditional practices and improve medical care.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In the Yanomami Indigenous Territory, we adapted our medical work to respect the traditional knowledge of the people who protect Brazil’s forests.

Read how we worked with cultural mediators to provide care to communities in the area:

MSF wraps up activities in northern Brazil | MSF
Over nearly three years, our work in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory strove to respect traditional practices and improve medical care.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Our new emergency service at Gwoza General hospital in Nigeria is run out of a rehabilitated facility, where patients can receive care in a resuscitation room, wound-dressing room, and separate observation rooms for men and women.

MSF launches emergency medical services in Gwoza | MSF
MSF began emergency medical activities at Gwoza General hospital in Borno state, northeast Nigeria, in August 2025.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sam Bradpiece recently returned from Democratic Republic of Congo.

📸 Using his own photography, he explains how conflict is playing into overlapping crises in the country’s eastern region ⬇️
December 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
🎨 We’re commemorating 40 years of humanitarian action in Colombia.

Since the eruption of the Nevado del Ruíz Volcano in 1985, our colleagues have been providing medical care to people affected by natural disasters, violence, and epidemics in rural and urban areas.
December 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM