News – Climate emergency

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How to provide health care without harming the environment

Entre 2022 et mars 2024, nos équipes, en collaboration avec le ministère de la Santé Publique, ont diagnostiqué et traité 2 205 enfants souffrant à la fois de malnutrition et de paludisme dans le district d’Ikongo, dans le sud du pays.

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Malaria on the rise in Madagascar as climate change leaves healthcare out of reach

MSF Arbovirus project in Honduras

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Innovative science uses mosquitos to combat dengue in Honduras

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Dedicated health professionals improve care for people on Kiribati

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Harnessing Solar Power in Nigeria

A hand of a refugee woman holding Praziquantel tablet, the medicine used the for treatment of Schistosomiasis.

MSF completes Mass Drug Campaign to tackle Schistosomiasis in Dagahaley Refugee Camp

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Cyclone Chido: How is MSF responding in Mayotte and Mozambique?

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Power up! Four reasons MSF teams in Nigeria are going solar

Climate, health, and misinformation: Protect yourself from fake news

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Climate Change Worsens Food Insecurity for Populations in Madagascar

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Being a single mother displaced by floods in South Sudan

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Progress towards meeting our carbon emissions target

MSF Urgence Climatique Innovation Tchad

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Mobile solar energy – does the solution lie in this container?

At COP28, more failure on climate change is not an option for vulnerable communities

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Strengthening health centres' roofs to stand against climate shocks in Mozambique

Dr Lachlan McIver MSF

Dr. Lachlan McIver, on the health consequences of the climate emergency

MSF in Madagascar

Madagascar: struggling to survive a triple crisis

Urgent action needed to tackle cholera across Horn of Africa

MSF South Sudan

How communities in South Sudan prepare for rainy season floods

Des mères attendent avec leurs enfants au sein du poste de santé du camp de réfugié·e·s de Dagahaley à Dadaab. Juillet 2019, Kenya. © MSF

Looming health catastrophe in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps

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People in Kiribati threatened by climate crisis and multiple health threats

Kiribati

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Kiribati: Where planetary and public health collide

Kiribati : MSF provides paediatric support

Madagascar: our response to Cyclone Freddy

Southern Mozambique: MSF provides emergency aid for flood victims

Madagascar: Climate factors contribute to malnutrition spikes

Urgent action needed to mitigate deadly consequences of climate change

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Kiribati: Where planetary and public health collide

Breaking: A message from our Director General live from the COP27

Honduras : the changing climate impacts the transmission of dengue

Cameroon: Climate change changes seasons and denies regular harvests

Lancet Countdown 2022: Policy brief for Médecins Sans Frontières

Lancet Countdown 2021: Policy brief on humanitarian impacts

4 questions to Stephen Cornish, General Director MSF Switzerland

MSF at COP26, Speech on Climate Change and Health by Stephen Cornish

MSF’s 2020 Environmental Pact

“If the rain abandons us again, we don’t know what we will do”

Responding in the aftermath of the Pakistan floods

Seven weeks of emergency response in Pakistan

MSF commits to reduce carbon emissions to help safeguard the most vulnerable

Innovation: Solar-powered hospitals in remote DRC

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Lack of water a growing crisis in Burkina Faso

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Cyclones cut people off from healthcare in eastern Madagascar

Drought intensifies health crises across Somalia and Somaliland

Reduce carbon emissions by at least 50% by 2030

How will we reach this target? 90% of the total reduction will be reached through 8 solutions:

Reduce air travel

Sea and road freight v. air freight

Repair and recycling of equipment

Avoid and reduce waste

Car fleet size, composition and movements

Environmental criteria for purchases

Deployment of renewable energy

Reduce energy consumption

More info on our carbon footprint