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2 months ago | 
southerneye.co.zw | Médecins Sans Frontières |Silas Nkala |Mpumelelo Moyo |Margaret Lubinda
…MSF peer educators helping people overcome stigma and misinformation to access health care.
THE streets of Mbare and Epworth, Zimbabwe, are more than a workplace for young sex workers—they are a battlefield. Violence, stigma, and a lack of access to health care have long defined their lives.
A growing network of young women, supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is rewriting this narrative.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Médecins Sans Frontières
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 16, 2025/APO Group/ -- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the armed attack on two of its clearly marked boats on the afternoon of Wednesday, 15 January 2025, in Upper Nile state, South Sudan. The boats, carrying six MSF staff members, were sailing on the river back to Ulang after delivering essential medical supplies to Nasir County hospital.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Médecins Sans Frontières
PORT SUDAN, Sudan, January 12, 2025/APO Group/ -- On January 10, an MSF ambulance was shot at in El Fasher, North Darfur, by an unknown gunman while referring a female patient in labor requiring emergency surgical procedure from MSF field hospital in Zamzam camp to Saudi Hospital in El Fasher, the only public hospital with surgical capacity still standing in the area despite relentless attacks.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Médecins Sans Frontières
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 10, 2025/APO Group/ -- MSF has taken the difficult decision to suspend medical activities at Bashair hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. This follows a violent incident on 18 December, where weapons were fired inside the emergency ward. We hope conditions will allow us to return to the hospital in the future, as people in the area desperately need access to medical care.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Médecins Sans Frontières
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, January 7, 2025/APO Group/ -- In recent days, the Masisi territory of North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has been the scene of major clashes between the armed group M23/AFC and the Congolese army, backed by allied elements. These clashes have led to large movements of people in the area - some 102,000 people in less than a week, according to OCHA.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
developmentaid.org | Médecins Sans Frontières
ByA recent survey by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) concluded that there are critical levels of malnutrition in parts of northwest Nigeria. The survey was conducted on 2,066 children of three local government areas of Katsina state, in collaboration with Epicentre (MSF’s epidemiology arm) and the Katsina State Ministry of Health. It shows that in some areas, levels of global acute malnutrition have doubled since last year, when the situation was already considered dire.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Médecins Sans Frontières
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2024/APO Group/ -- As World AIDS Day approaches on December 1, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is preparing to roll out long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in its projects in southern Africa. CAB-LA, administered as an injection every two months, has been described as a potential game changer in the fight against HIV/AIDS and is one of the closest medical tools that exist to an HIV vaccine.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
developmentaid.org | Médecins Sans Frontières
The climate emergency continues to bear consequences for people’s health, and the hardest hit places are often those least responsible for the emissions that fuel it. In Kenya, extreme climate conditions have led to three concurrent disease outbreaks—malaria in Baringo and Turkana counties, which have experienced heavy rains, and measles in Marsabit county.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Médecins Sans Frontières
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 26, 2024/APO Group/ -- The climate emergency continues to bear consequences for people’s health, and the hardest hit places are often those least responsible for the emissions that fuel it. In Kenya, extreme climate conditions have led to three concurrent disease outbreaks—malaria in Baringo and Turkana counties, which have experienced heavy rains, and measles in Marsabit county.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
africa-newsroom.com | Médecins Sans Frontières
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 19, 2024/APO Group/ -- Malaria remains a leading cause of illness and death among children in South Sudan. The country faces malaria outbreak every year, worsened by factors such as flooding, poverty and a fragile health system. Despite the predictable recurrence of malaria peaks, immunization coverage remains inadequate, contributing to overcrowded health facilities and an unbroken cycle of severe cases.
