Throughout 2025, as the world was shaken by ongoing violent conflicts and other crises, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams continued to provide essential medical services and humanitarian aid—because when our patients need us, we are there.
This past year, MSF responded to war and disease outbreaks, helped improve health care for people on the move, provided urgently needed malnutrition and sanitation support, and so much more.
Our efforts never stop, so we’d like to take a moment to review the lifesaving work that was made possible this past year thanks to the incredible generosity of our global movement.
Sudan: Bringing care to neglected communities
Access to health care is one of the most urgent and challenging issues in conflict-affected regions. The situation is extremely dire in the town of Kass, located in the hard-to-reach mountainous area of Jebel Marra, Darfur.
Despite difficult terrain and ongoing fighting, thanks to you, our teams in Kass have managed to perform over 23,200 medical consultations and treat nearly 3,000 malaria patients in the first half of 2025.
Gaza: Saving lives from starvation
The Israeli forces’ siege and blockade of food and aid has led to a rise in malnutrition cases. In parts of Gaza, famine has been declared by international experts. While we welcome the ceasefire, the end of conflict does not mean the end of people’s suffering.
Thanks to you, our teams are supporting a 10-bed inpatient therapeutic feeding center in Nasser Hospital alone. We are also providing malnutrition screening in multiple health care facilities. Our teams are also providing access to clean water, distributing 1.9 million liters of water per day in August alone.
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Providing vaccinations amid epidemics
As violence continues to surge, people in DRC are experiencing increasing epidemics of deadly diseases like measles and cholera. Resources are already dramatically insufficient, and recent cuts to international humanitarian aid risk intensifying the immense health and humanitarian needs.
Between January and June, our teams launched more than 20 emergency interventions. Your generosity helped vaccinate over 437,000 children against measles and treat more than 5,430 infected patients. Our teams also treated almost 12,800 cholera patients and vaccinated more than 11,000 others.
Afghanistan: Expanding pediatric care
Following the cancellation of over $1 billion in U.S. international aid to Afghanistan, some 422 health facilities have suspended or ended activities, putting pressure on hospitals to meet the surge in pediatric patients.
Because of you, our teams at the Boost hospital emergency room treated 13,738 children under five in April—the highest monthly total since at least 2020. And at Herat Regional Hospital in the first five months of 2025, an average of 354 children daily received emergency room consultations.
Nigeria: Ensuring families have access to food
Malnutrition is a growing public health emergency in northern Nigeria, and funding cuts to international aid now threaten to deepen this existing crisis.
In the northwest, with your support, we treated almost 100,000 children suffering from severe and moderate acute malnutrition in outpatient treatment centers and 25,000 children in hospitals during the first six months of 2025 alone.
Mexico: Treating mental health for migrants
Fueled by new restrictive US immigration policies, migrants and asylum seekers increasingly face violence from armed groups along the migration route through Mexico and Central America. The violence leaves deep scars, not only physically, but also emotionally and psychologically.
At our specialized Mexico City center, you helped provide 485 individual mental health sessions in the first three months of 2025, a 36 percent increase from the prior three months. The majority of our patients are women and children.
How you can help
Not everyone can treat patients in emergencies. But everyone can do something.
Some humanitarian crises make the headlines—others don’t. Unrestricted support from our donors allows us to mobilize quickly and efficiently to provide lifesaving medical care to the people who need it most, whether those needs are in the spotlight or not. And your donation is 100 percent tax-deductible.
