Médecins Sans Frontières
@msf.org
The account of MSF International 🌎
We've been providing independent, impartial, and neutral humanitarian medical care since 1971.
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.”
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
👋 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.”
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.”
Seeking safety is not a crime.
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Seeking safety is not a crime.
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
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 👇
🤖 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 ⬇️
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
🤖 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 ⬇️
Check out how our team in Tondo, Philippines, uses AI-assisted radiography to interpret x-rays quickly and accurately ⬇️
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.
📸 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
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.
📸 At our mother and child hospital, play therapy helps children regain confidence, overcome developmental delays, and build lifelong mental health resilience.
👋 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.”
“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 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.”
“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.”
👋 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.
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
👋 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.
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.
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:
Khader’s mother describes what it’s like to wait for his medical evacuation:
December 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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:
Khader’s mother describes what it’s like to wait for his medical evacuation:
“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:
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
“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:
Hanan, a mother from Gaza, Palestine, describes what it is like waiting for her to be medically evacuated:
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 👇
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
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 👇
We’re delivering tents and heavy plastic sheeting for people to use as shelter. More from our colleague, David Croft 👇
Seeking safety is not a crime.
December 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Seeking safety is not a crime.
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 ⬇️
📸 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
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 ⬇️
📸 Using his own photography, he explains how conflict is playing into overlapping crises in the country’s eastern region ⬇️
🎨 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.
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
🎨 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.
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.
🎥 Simi Basheer describes how our teams are responding to people and communities affected by Cyclone Ditwah in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka.
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🎥 Simi Basheer describes how our teams are responding to people and communities affected by Cyclone Ditwah in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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 8, 2025 at 5:41 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 👇
📸 We're working with patients in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to overcome challenges of managing type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Self-monitoring blood glucose meters and clay pot storage for insulin are bringing care closer to home, so people don’t have to travel so often to the clinic.
December 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
📸 We're working with patients in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to overcome challenges of managing type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Self-monitoring blood glucose meters and clay pot storage for insulin are bringing care closer to home, so people don’t have to travel so often to the clinic.
Welcome to the workshop of our Kunduz trauma centre in Afghanistan, where our logistics team makes medical devices that help people with their mobility, on site and for lower cost.
Check out how they make a pair of crutches from start to finish 👇
Check out how they make a pair of crutches from start to finish 👇
December 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Welcome to the workshop of our Kunduz trauma centre in Afghanistan, where our logistics team makes medical devices that help people with their mobility, on site and for lower cost.
Check out how they make a pair of crutches from start to finish 👇
Check out how they make a pair of crutches from start to finish 👇
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.
📸 At our mother and child hospital, play therapy helps children regain confidence, overcome developmental delays, and build lifelong mental health resilience.
December 5, 2025 at 3:19 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.
📸 At our mother and child hospital, play therapy helps children regain confidence, overcome developmental delays, and build lifelong mental health resilience.
Six-year old Mustafa can go back to school and play cricket again, following his successful treatment for tuberculosis, after our teams started supporting TB treatment in Baldia, Pakistan, earlier this year.
https://www.msf.org/tuberculosis-patients-find-strength-and-care-baldia-pakistan
https://www.msf.org/tuberculosis-patients-find-strength-and-care-baldia-pakistan
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Six-year old Mustafa can go back to school and play cricket again, following his successful treatment for tuberculosis, after our teams started supporting TB treatment in Baldia, Pakistan, earlier this year.
https://www.msf.org/tuberculosis-patients-find-strength-and-care-baldia-pakistan
https://www.msf.org/tuberculosis-patients-find-strength-and-care-baldia-pakistan
🚨 We are calling for the immediate protection of medical staff and facilities in South Sudan, after our healthcare facility in Pieri, Jonglei state, was hit in an airstrike during the early hours of 3 December.
https://www.msf.org/msf-healthcare-facility-hit-airstrike-south-sudan
https://www.msf.org/msf-healthcare-facility-hit-airstrike-south-sudan
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
🚨 We are calling for the immediate protection of medical staff and facilities in South Sudan, after our healthcare facility in Pieri, Jonglei state, was hit in an airstrike during the early hours of 3 December.
https://www.msf.org/msf-healthcare-facility-hit-airstrike-south-sudan
https://www.msf.org/msf-healthcare-facility-hit-airstrike-south-sudan
In Ukraine, @chrislockyear.msf.org recently saw first-hand the impact the ongoing war is having on both people's mental health and on medical facilities. He explains more 👇🎥
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In Ukraine, @chrislockyear.msf.org recently saw first-hand the impact the ongoing war is having on both people's mental health and on medical facilities. He explains more 👇🎥
Using solar panels to power hospitals means lower costs and uninterrupted care. That’s why we upgraded the power system at Mudug hospital in Somalia.
Mohsin Rafiq explains why this change is better for our patients and the environment 👇
Mohsin Rafiq explains why this change is better for our patients and the environment 👇
December 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Using solar panels to power hospitals means lower costs and uninterrupted care. That’s why we upgraded the power system at Mudug hospital in Somalia.
Mohsin Rafiq explains why this change is better for our patients and the environment 👇
Mohsin Rafiq explains why this change is better for our patients and the environment 👇
Seeking safety is not a crime.
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Seeking safety is not a crime.
On World AIDS Day, Deepak Bhatia explains a tool our staff use to understand the challenges a person living with HIV might face, and how we tailor solutions for them, to ensure the best care possible at our Advanced HIV clinic in Patna, India.
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
On World AIDS Day, Deepak Bhatia explains a tool our staff use to understand the challenges a person living with HIV might face, and how we tailor solutions for them, to ensure the best care possible at our Advanced HIV clinic in Patna, India.
In Ukraine, @chrislockyear.msf.org recently saw first-hand the impact the ongoing war is having on both people's mental health and on medical facilities. He explains more 👇🎥
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In Ukraine, @chrislockyear.msf.org recently saw first-hand the impact the ongoing war is having on both people's mental health and on medical facilities. He explains more 👇🎥