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The First 1,000 Days

New York, Feb. 6 -- The "first 1,000 days" is a critical period for nutritional development that begins during pregnancy and continues through a child's second birthday. This window of nutritional de... Read More


Sudan Becomes the World's Hungriest Country as Famine Spreads to Two New Areas of Darfur

New York, Feb. 5 -- New datafromtheIntegratedFoodSecurityPhaseClassificationconfirmsthatfaminein Sudan,alreadypresentintworegions, has spreadtotwonewlocationsin North Darfur. Sudan now has the most a... Read More


"You can't play if you get sick": Measles vaccination in El Geneina, Sudan

Sudan, Feb. 5 -- More than 174,000 children in El Geneina, Sudan, were vaccinated last month against measles, in the area's first measles vaccination campaign since 2021. Measles remains a leading ca... Read More


Government forces bombard MSF hospital in South Sudan

South Sudan, Feb. 4 -- A Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Lankien, Jonglei state, South Sudan, was hit in an airstrike by the government of South Sudan's forces durin... Read More


A US judicial ruling on Temporary Protected Status reflects Haiti's deepening crisis

Haiti, Feb. 3 -- Yesterday's court ruling blocking the expiration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian nationals in the US is a welcome reprieve for hundreds of thousands of people at risk ... Read More


Fighting malnutrition in one of Ethiopia's harshest landscapes

Ethiopia, Feb. 3 -- The road to Magenta in the Afar region of Ethiopia winds through vast stretches of dry earth and is framed by distant mountains and volcanoes. Afar, one of the hottest inhabited p... Read More


South Sudan's government blocks humanitarian access in opposition-held areas

South Sudan, Feb. 2 -- Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) denounces restrictions on humanitarian access that the government of South Sudan has imposed exclusively in parts of the o... Read More


US government concerns over key vaccine ingredient are not based on science

United States, Feb. 2 -- Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is concerned by recent reports that the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pressuring Gavi, the Vaccine... Read More


From snakebite to noma: Making space for neglected tropical diseases

Nigeria, Jan. 30 -- "It happened while I was on my way home from the market at 8:00 p.m.," says Noon Makor Arop, a Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) health promoter and community ... Read More


MSF will not share staff information about its colleagues in Palestine with Israeli authorities

Palestine, Jan. 30 -- Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) will not share a list of its Palestinian and international staff with Israeli authorities as part of the registration proce... Read More