Year in Review 2025

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

Measles out break in Rokero, Central Darfur. Sudan — In Rokero, nurse Salah Aldeen inserts an intravenous line for 3-year-old Marwa, who was admitted the day before with symptoms of measles. | Sudan 2025 © Thibault Fendler/MSF

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.

Providing medical care in Jebel Marra goes beyond logistics. We cross mountains to support people who live in isolation and face difficulties accessing basic health care services after years of neglect and conflict.
Resit Elcin, Doctors Without Borders project coordinator in Kass

Gaza: Saving lives from starvation

Abed al Raheem, an MSF pediatrician, examines a child at Mawasi Rafah primary health care clinic in southern Gaza. | Palestine 2025 © Nour Alsaqqa/MSF

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.

Due to widespread malnutrition among pregnant women and poor water and sanitation, many babies are born prematurely. Our neonatal intensive care unit is severely overcrowded, with four to five babies sharing a single incubator.
Dr. Joanne Perry, Doctors Without Borders physician

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Providing vaccinations amid epidemics

An MSF staff member vaccinates a child in Businga, DR Congo. — MSF teams are treating children with measles and malaria as part of an emergency intervention in the Businga health zone in North Ubangi province. Alongside the vaccination campaign, our teams have treated 2,341 patients, of whom 30 percent had measles and 70 percent had malaria. | DR Congo 2025 © MSF

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.

The epidemiological situation, coupled with international budget cuts, is extremely concerning.
Emmanuel Lampaert, Doctors Without Borders representative in DRC

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.

Parents are telling us they do not find sufficient services at local clinics and cannot afford treatment at private clinics, so they come here where we provide free care.
A Doctors Without Borders pediatric triage nurse at Herat Regional Hospital

Nigeria: Ensuring families have access to food

Long-term impact of malnutrition — An MSF medical staff feeds a malnourished baby using a feeding syringe connected to the feeding tube at the ITFC ward in Zurmi General Hospital. | Nigeria 2025 © Isaac Buay/MSF

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.

The most urgent way to reduce the risk of immediate death from malnutrition is to ensure families have access to food. This can be done through large-scale distribution of food or nutritional supplements, as we are currently doing in the Mashi area.
Emmanuel Berbain, Doctors Without Borders nutrition advisor

Mexico: Treating mental health for migrants

Mexico: MSF Denounces Increased Risks for Migrants Following the Closure of the U.S. Asylum Process — An MSF team helping migrants in Coatzacoalcos. | Mexico 2025 © Yotibel Moreno

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.

Specialized care is required, as many patients experience changes in their perception of safety, trust, and wellbeing.
Joaquim Guinart, Doctors Without Borders care coordinator

How you can help

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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.