April 24, 2025
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9min15
23 April 2025, Colombo:  — Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders convened a pivotal two-day roundtable, ‘Dousing the Blaze: Setting Priorities for Integrated Action on Health Impacts of Climate Change’, on April 21–22, 2025, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The event brought together more than 60 experts, policymakers, academics, frontline practitioners, and community leaders from across […]

March 16, 2025
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4min19
Kabul, 12 March 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Afghanistan have reported a surge in measles patients at three MSF-supported hospitals since January. While measles is endemic in Afghanistan, such a high number of cases so early in the year is cause for alarm. At least one child in Afghanistan has died from […]

March 14, 2025
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3min17
NEW YORK, March 13, 2025—Christopher Lockyear, Secretary General of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), briefed the United Nations Security Council today on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by war in Sudan, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver lifesaving aid. The war in Sudan is above all a […]

January 23, 2025
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5min51
January 22, 2025, New Delhi: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders, in partnership with the National TB Elimination Program (NTEP) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), hosted a panel discussion today to mark the culmination of 25 years of continuous medical efforts to battle tuberculosis (TB) in Mumbai. The event, held at Fire, The Park, […]


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