COVID-19: Our Global Response
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams around the world were quick to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the severe disruptions this pandemic had on other essential health services. MSF teams adapted to the spread of the novel coronavirus in the more than 70 countries where we had existing medical projects. Over the past three…
How MSF Responds to Maternal Health
Our obstetric care programs aim to remedy the crucial “three delays” that can threaten the lives of both mother and child. These are: delay in deciding to seek care; delay in reaching a health facility; and delay in receiving appropriate treatment at the facility. Emergency obstetric care is a key component of this strategy. Emergency care…
Emergency Response
For more than 50 years, humanitarian emergency response has been at the core of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) work around the world. As an independent, impartial, and neutral humanitarian medical aid organization, we are able to go where the needs are greatest to provide lifesaving medical and humanitarian aid—even in places where other organizations may…