In 2021, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continued its lifesaving work in more than 70 countries around the globe. Our teams responded to the needs of displaced people who fled their homes in search of safety, and in places where violent conflicts depleted local health care systems. We treated people affected by natural disasters and the climate crisis, continued our ground-breaking medical research, and worked to prevent and treat infectious diseases like drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, measles, HIV/AIDS, and cholera. The COVID-19 pandemic continued to spread around the world, as did our ongoing efforts to address it.
In these images, staff and professional photographers from around the world have captured just some of the stories of patients and staff we work with, bearing witness to an essential humanitarian need: access to medical care.