Every year, more than 820,000 child deaths are linked to suboptimal breastfeeding. It's one of the most powerful, lowest-cost, lifesaving interventions available to us, and yet, in many of the places MSF works, it remains out of reach for many mothers. This World Breastfeeding Week, we want to share why breastfeeding support…

In Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) menstruation is both celebrated and silenced. At menarche, a girl’s first menstrual cycle, families may welcome her into womanhood. But soon after, the silence sets in. Talking openly about menstruation is considered shameful, questions often go unanswered, and secrecy becomes the rule.

It improves health, promotes recovery and dramatically increases every child’s quality of life. It has no side-effects, requires no special storage, and can be safely prescribed by anyone, anywhere.  What is this wonder-drug? In this article, we share the surprising answer … 

Access to menstrual products is an important aspect of access to health care and shapes education and livelihoods. In this article, we provide an overview of how we work to design and pilot stronger, more inclusive approaches to Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) in MSF projects and discuss why this work matters now more than ever.

In this blog we share one MSF initiative prioritizing wellbeing of people living with diabetes, the Digital Therapeutic (DTx) project in Lebanon and how the project is being leveraged to further support unmet needs of people living with diabetes in the country.

During this year’s MSF Paediatric Days in Nairobi, Kenya, we organised a workshop on ways to improve screening for malnutrition in young infants under six months of age together with the MSF Manson Unit Innovation team and others. This article shares initial outcomes of the workshops and next steps.