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Thank You for 2017

January 12, 2018

Thanks to our donors for supporting our work in 2017.

 
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Using Smartphones to Tackle Malnutrition

September 27, 2017

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is using smartphones to collect vital data about malnutrition in Borno state, Nigeria, where there has been a devastating food crisis. Using mobile technology in creative ways allows medical teams to respond quickly and effectively to emergency situations.
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A Humanitarian Crisis in Ngala, Borno State, Nigeria

August 11, 2017

People have fled violence perpetrated by Boko Haram and ongoing military operations in the Ngala area of Borno State. At least 45,000 people are sheltered in a camp for internally displaced people there. MSF’s hospital provides outpatient consultations, maternity care, and treatment for malnourished children.
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Targeting a Root Cause of Malnutrition in Pakistan

August 02, 2017
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Babies Impacted by Violence in Mosul, Iraq

July 21, 2017
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South Sudanese Take Refuge in Uganda

May 18, 2017
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What Constitutes a Famine?

April 21, 2017

The definition of a famine is very precise and the experience of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in this area can provide some context. The term famine can be used when the following criteria are met: the mortality rate exceeds two deaths per 10,000 people per day; acute malnutrition exceeds 30 percent; and one person in every five is not getting enough to eat. 
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Video: Dadaab to Somalia—Forced Back Into Danger

October 13, 2016

October 2016 marks 25 years of the existence of the Dadaab camps in north-eastern Kenya. Established in 1991 when conflicts in neighboring Ethiopia, Sudan and Somalia forced thousands to flee to Kenya, the camps have swelled to far more than their capacity over the last quarter of a century. Today, 277,000 people—the majority Somalis—call Dadaab home. Consisting of five camps, it is still today the world’s largest refugee camp complex.
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Testimony: Forced from Home by Boko Haram

March 30, 2016

Fanta Meleram, 30, lives on the outskirts of Yebi, a village in Bosso District, in south of Niger. She fled northern Nigeria when Islamic State’s West Africa Province (Boko Haram) attacked her village. 

More than 2.7 million people have been forced from their homes by violence in the Lake Chad basin, which is now the site of one of the African continent’s largest humanitarian crises.
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Keeping Children Alive in Mali

September 15, 2015

Koutiala in southeast Mali has extremely high rates of infant mortality, mainly due to malaria and malnutrition. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing lifesaving care.

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