Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

GENEVA - States must urgently address growing attacks on sexual and reproductive health and rights, including through renewed investment in health systems and protection of essential healthcare servic...

Paving the Interoceanic Highway through Peru's Madre de Dios region led to more than 10,000 additional cases of dengue, study finds

The Ebola disease outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is far from over. The number of new cases has not fallen, and MSF teams are seeing cases spread into new areas.

MSF urges critical action to ensure children access Bundibugyo virus treatment and PEP research, as they face disproportionately high risks in the current DRC outbreak.

The German government is cementing its shift in geopolitical priorities, slashing budgets for global health funding and crisis preparedness. Whilst defence spending is set to further increase, assesse...

PEPFAR, or the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, started in 2003 and is the largest country-to-country bilateral investment in addressing any single disease. PEPFAR is not only funding, b...

Some pregnant women in eastern Congo are avoiding hospitals over fears of a rapidly growing Ebola outbreak, and more of them are dying around childbirth.

Im Osten der D. R. Kongo breitet sich die Ebola-Krankheit weiter aus. Ärzte ohne Grenzen unterstützt mit medizinischer Hilfe und Prävention und sichert zugleich die Versorgung von Menschen mit anderen...

Bei Unternehmen ist der Anstieg von Frauen in Führungsrollen laut der Organisation Frauen in die Aufsichtsräte »weitgehend gestoppt«. Aktuell sind es nur 37 Prozent.

Es braucht mehr Hilfe, damit die Versorgung mit Nahrungsmitteln und Wasser den Notfallstandards entspricht.

Since October 2023, Israel's attacks on Palestinians hinders their ability to live a dignified, healthy life. A shift in policy is depserately needed.

Lenacapavir is one injection, twice a year. It's a big improvement for people in high-risk groups, currently taking a pill a day against HIV infection. But its long-term impact depends on it reaching ...

The current Ebola outbreak should not be viewed in isolation. It is being met by a healthcare system that has already been pushed to its limits by years of conflict, forced displacement and chronic underfinancing. In order to successfully contain Ebola, we will have to fight much more than a virus.

MSF surgeon Dr Mohammed Obeid has been detained in Israel for more than 600 days, joining 95 Palestinian healthcare workers who remain detained by Israeli authorities since October 2023.

“There is no one here that knows definitively what is in the warehouse,” one official wrote of a USAID storage facility in Belgium as its contents were left to expire.

Die gezielte Zerstörung medizinischer Versorgung erschwert Millionen Menschen den Zugang zu lebenswichtiger Hilfe – besonders nahe der Frontlinien.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at an unprecedented pace, Africa CDC warns.

Une membre du personnel de Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) a été arrêtée et détenue pendant deux jours à Herat après avoir été accusée de non-respect présumé du code vestimentaire. Alors que les restri...

As WHO chief visits epicenter of the outbreak, MSF calls for urgent action to respond to the needs of affected communities.

“Women and girls in eastern Congo will be harmed in predictable, named ways over the next 12 months,” write researchers Lindsay Stark and Ilana Seff.

Im Kongo verbreitet sich eine tödliche Ebola-Variante. Wie gefährlich ist der Ausbruch? Epidemiologe Maximilian Gertler ordnet die Lage ein.

"Health care must never be a casualty of war"

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March 30, 2026—Developments over the past week in the handling of the allegations of sexual misconduct and retaliation against the International Criminal

​Yanar knew that wherever there is terrible violence, there are people behaving magnificently. She was one of them.

Activists from Burkina Faso, Poland and the US share their strategies to protect access to abortion and their hopes for the future.

Exklusiv: Die deutsche Entwicklungsministerin und der belgische Außenminister rufen zusammen zum Widerstand gegen Knebelregel der US-Regierung auf.

Should we permit the foundations of international law to erode, the world would slip once more into anarchy and chaos.