This image collection features the highs and lows we – and those we assist – experience as we provide medical and humanitarian assistance in over 70 countries. They show the breaking points, but also resilience and joy. These photos show how bearing witness can create a point of connection.
Medical care provides relief in the most difficult of circumstances, and we remain inspired by our staff’s commitment to deliver this care to people, even as the obstacles to doing so increase around us.
France
A small boat left the Gravelines canal, near Grand-Fort-Philippe in northern France, for England. Police were trying to prevent the last people from boarding the small boat before it set off to attempt the Channel crossing France. © Stéphane Lavoué
Bangladesh
The day after a fire in Camp 5 of Cox’s Bazar refugee camp. The fire raged for three hours and destroyed nearly 900 shelters. © Jan Bohm/MSF
Nigeria
MSF health promotion team conducts a Tom Brown sensitisation session for men in Kebbi. Convincing men to support this approach for combatting malnutrition is key, as they are mostly the main providers for their families. For cultural reasons, MSF organises separate sessions for men and women. © Georg Gassauer/MSF
United States of America
Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Médecins Sans Frontières, called on the United Nations Security Council to demand an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza Addressing the Council at its monthly meeting on Gaza, Lockyear also called for the unequivocal protection of medical facilities, staff and patients. © UN Photo/Loey Felipe
Haiti
A view of Port-au-Prince, after an armed fight between gangs and the police force. © Corentin Fohlen/Divergence
South Sudan
Ita Joice meets her baby girl, during her caesarean section in Mundari County hospital, the only secondary healthcare facility in Kajo Keji, Central Equatoria state. © Manon Massiat/MSF
Karachi, Pakistan
Shahid Khan helps his son, Abdul Rehman, with his homework inside their home in Machar Colony. Shahid Khan has successfully completed his hepatitis C treatment. © Asim Hafeez
Chad
At the Adre border crossing point between Chad and Sudan. At this point, 600,000 people already fled the war in Sudan to seek refuge in Chad and there are still new arrivals every day. © Corentin Fohlen/Divergence
Gaza
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip carry their belongings as they leave following an evacuation order by the Israeli forces. © MSF
Displaced Palestinians line up for water in Kahn Younis, after arriving from Rafah. © MSF
Mediterranean Sea
On board the deck of the Geo Barents rescue ship, people gather to watch the football champions league final. During this rescue rotation, MSF brought 84 survivors aboard. © Frederic Seguin/MSF
Southern Gaza
Hin So, MSF midwife activity manager, checks on a newborn baby at Nasser hospital. © Mariam Abu Dagga/MSF
Jonglei, South Sudan
A man standing on a canoe near the town of Old Fangak. The Sudd region is one of the world's largest wetlands. Its inhabitants have adapted their lives to the natural ebb and flow of seasonal flood, but in recent years extreme flooding has engulfed up to two thirds of South Sudan. © Simon Rolin/MSF
Eastern Chad
A health promoter, accompanies 80-year-old woman to the MSF clinic in Adré transit camp. © Ante Bussmann/MSF
Ukraine
A patient with broken ribs and burns on his legs and hands is being prepared for transport. He remembers that he was blown up by a mine but is having difficulty piecing together the events. © Olexandr Glyadyelov
Kenya
The refugee at Dagahaley camp, rolls a water jerrycan alongside her two sons after fetching it from an MSF water point on the outskirts of the camp. © Zainab Mohammed/MSF
Sudan
Destruction at the Nyala Teaching hospital. © Abdalla Berima/MSF
West Bank, Palestine
Omar stands in the rubble of his home after it was bulldozed by Israeli forces in Jenin refugee camp. © Alexandre Marcou/MSF
Lebanon
Kazem and his sister, Marimar, both Syrian refugees, hold their kittens in an informal displacement site in a parking lot in the city of Saida. This is where they have sought safety with the rest of their family from Israeli bombardments. © Dalia Khamissy
Southern Mexico
A caravan of migrants, escorted by police, advances along the route between the towns of La Venta and Juchitán. © Adri Salido
South Africa
Picketing outside Novo Nordisk's office in Johannesburg, where asked them to drop the price of insulin pens to $1 USD, and to end the double standard on insulin pen supply. © Bafana Ngwenya/MSF
Yemen
The team of MSF midwives in Mokha decided to end their shift by watching the sunset on the Red Sea. © Julie David de Lossy/MSF
Syria
In response to the recent developments in Syria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing critical relief to thousands of displaced people now seeking safety in Tabqa and Raqqa, northeast Syria. © Matthew Cowling/MSF
Mediterranean Sea
Life on Deck, Geo Barrents. © Stefan Pejovic/MSF
