Your lifesaving impact in 2023
Your support enabled us to provide care whenever and wherever disaster struck.
Bangladesh 2023 © Victor Caringal/MSF
UKRAINE: First aid and psychological support amid war
The war in Ukraine continues to drive enormous medical demands and disrupt healthcare access. With your help, MSF has provided medical and humanitarian aid throughout the country.
Our teams are responding with psychological first aid, counseling, and comprehensive mental health care. In 2023 alone, we provided more than 8,000 mental health consultations in seven different regions of Ukraine.
NIGERIA: An escalating malnutrition crisis
Widespread violence has exacerbated a malnutrition crisis impacting children in northwest Nigeria. Armed groups regularly raid towns, loot property, and kidnap residents for ransom. More than 500,000 people have fled their homes and lands—others have stayed but can’t access their farms, leaving less food for everyone.
With your support, MSF has scaled up our lifesaving response in the region. From January to May 2023, our teams across northwest Nigeria provided care to 10,200 severely malnourished children at 10 inpatient therapeutic feeding centers.
PANAMA: Urgent action for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers
Between January and April 2023, over 127,000 people crossed the Darién Gap between Colombia and Panama. Migrants who traverse the area’s dense jungle, rivers, and cliffs have also experienced extreme violence at the hands of armed groups who control the land.
Thanks to your generosity, in just three months, MSF has treated 669 people in this area with chronic conditions—nearly three times the number of patients treated during the same period the previous year.
SYRIA: Relief efforts after deadly earthquakes
The catastrophic earthquakes that hit Syria and Türkiye in February killed over 51,000 people and left millions injured or homeless across both countries. Thanks to you, MSF-supported teams were among the first to respond to the needs of displaced people in Syria following the earthquake.
MSF has been working with local partners to meet the immense need for emergency medical and mental health care. In collaboration with a local organization, our mobile clinic teams in Jindires, Syria, performed 1,550 medical consultations and offered 670 mental health sessions in the first month of operation.
SUDAN: Saving lives amid armed conflict
In Khartoum, Darfur, and many other parts of Sudan, millions of people have been forced from their homes by the continued escalation of violence that began in April. Heavy fighting from gunfire, shelling, and airstrikes has caused many hospitals to close or face staffing and supply shortages.
Your support fuels the efforts of our 1,089 staff members who are treating the ill and injured throughout Sudan. In El Fasher, MSF transformed a small maternity facility with no surgical capacity into the main referral hospital for all of North Darfur state. To date, we have treated more than 1,000 war-wounded patients at this new trauma center.
How you can help
Not everyone can treat patients in the field. 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.
