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EnglishWhat news, reports, and updates can I find on msf.org?
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msf.org publishes four main types of editorial content — press releases, opinion pieces, project updates, and photo stories — plus an annual International Activity Report. These cover MSF's medical humanitarian work in more than 70 countries, organised by crisis and by region, so you can follow a specific emergency or a specific country over time. The site is the official English-language outlet of Médecins Sans Frontières, an international, independent medical humanitarian organisation.
The content types you will find
| Content type | What it contains | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Press release | Official organisational statements and positions | Tracking MSF's public stance on a crisis |
| Opinion | Signed commentary on humanitarian issues | Understanding why an operation succeeded or failed |
| Project update | Field-level reporting on an ongoing response | Following how a crisis is developing |
| Photo story | Image-led reporting from a programme | Seeing conditions on the ground |
| International Activity Report | Annual figures and country-by-country activity | Getting aggregate numbers and a yearly overview |
The homepage excerpt shows all of these running side by side. Recent examples include a photo story on palliative care for women with cervical cancer in south Malawi, an opinion piece titled "Why we could not stop cholera in Sudan," a project update on Ebola in North Kivu, DRC, and a press release on Gaza and Israel.
What topics the updates cover
MSF's stated scope is medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. In practice, the news and updates section reflects that range:
- Conflict — for example, the war in Gaza and Israel, and conflict in Sudan
- Disease outbreaks — Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, cholera in Sudan, malaria
- Displacement and access to care — people seeking safety in Greece
- Specific medical programmes — such as palliative care, described in the Malawi photo story
- Country situations — explainer-style pieces such as "Five things to know about the situation in the south of Yemen today"
The annual report and headline figures
The International Activity Report is the site's yearly reference document. The 2025 edition is linked from the About Us section and is the place to go for aggregate numbers rather than single-crisis reporting. Figures published alongside it include:
- 17.1 million outpatient consultations
- 3.6 million malaria cases treated
- 1.8 million patients admitted
- Activity in 72 countries
Use the report when you need scale and year-on-year context; use the news and updates stream when you need what is happening now.
How the content is organised
Two navigation paths matter most:
- By country — the "Where we work" section lists more than 70 countries, with both a list view and a map view. This is the fastest route to everything published about one country.
- By theme or latest — the latest items are grouped on the homepage and in the updates stream, mixing press releases, opinion, project updates, and photo stories.
One caveat on the map: MSF states that place names and boundaries on it do not reflect any position on legal status, and that it uses the Gall-Peters equal-area projection.
How to use the site for tracking a crisis
If you want to follow one situation rather than browse:
- Open "Where we work" and select the country.
- Read the most recent project update first — it usually carries the current operational picture.
- Check the press release stream for MSF's formal positions on the same crisis.
- Use the opinion pieces for analysis of why the response did or did not work.
- Return to the International Activity Report for the annual totals once the year closes.
This sequence separates what is happening now from what MSF is publicly demanding and from its own retrospective assessment — three different things that the site keeps in separate formats.