MSF Paediatric Days 2024 abstracts
Published 30-Apr-2024
On 3-4 May in Nairobi, Kenya, MSF gathered staff from our projects with experts from academia, clinical practice and the non-governmental sector to consider key issues in humanitarian paediatrics. These included:
Vaccination and vaccine-preventable dise...
The climate crisis and health in humanitarian settings
Published 19-Apr-2024
The climate crisis is also a health and humanitarian crisis, disproportionately impacting people in the world’s most climate-sensitive regions—mainly low- and low-middle income countries with the least capacity to respond.
MSF and other humanitarian orga...
Medical and humanitarian harms of restrictive European migration policies
Published 06-Feb-2024
Conflict, persecution, poverty, food insecurity and natural disasters—increasingly fueled by climate change—continue to drive migration globally. Yet many wealthy countries are doubling down on hostile policies to prevent people from seeking safety within...
World NTD Day 2024
Published 23-Jan-2024
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) impact nearly 1.7 billion people each year, causing serious illness or lifelong disability among many—often leading to stigma and exclusion—and killing an estimated 200,000. The vast majority of sufferers live in the wor...
Diabetes care in humanitarian settings
Published 13-Nov-2023
Diabetes affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, a large majority of them living in low- and middle-income countries. Yet finding effective strategies, tools and policies for effectively managing this chronic illness—especially amid war, displace...
Combatting antimicrobial resistance
Published 07-Nov-2023
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health crisis, especially in countries with fragile health systems, population displacement or ongoing conflict. In 2019 antibiotic-resistant bacteria directly caused an estimated 1.27 million deaths, a toll th...
Snakebite envenoming: a neglected health crisis
Published 18-Sep-2023
Every year 2 million or more people fall victim to snakebite envenoming, mostly in poor, rural communities of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Between 83,000—138,000 of them die, while hundreds of thousands more suffer debilitating long-term complications ...
Expanding access to lifesaving new TB tools
Published 11-Sep-2023
Many settings with a high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) lack access to advanced diagnostics and to groundbreaking new treatments. The Collection linked below spotlights work by MSF and collaborators to analyze barriers, identify gaps, and ...
Safe abortion care at MSF
Published 22-Jun-2023
Unsafe abortion is one of the main causes of maternal death, and the only one that is completely preventable. Yet over 30 million unsafe abortions occur each year, leading to at least 28,000 deaths and millions of serious complications—nearly all in low- ...
Mental health in humanitarian settings
Published 06-May-2023
Complex humanitarian emergencies and other low-resource settings can be exceedingly difficult places to provide quality mental health (MH) care. Yet these environments also often have a high burden of mental health care needs.
This collection presents a ...