2023: A year in photos

2023: a year in photos
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MSF TEAMS AROUND THE WORLD CONTINUED TO RESPOND TO CRISES IN 2023. OUR YEAR IN PICTURES OFFERS A GLIMPSE INTO THE WORK CARRIED OUT BY OUR TEAMS IN OVER 70 COUNTRIES LAST YEAR.

Unloading of the MSF cargo in Rhoe camp, where around 70’000 people live in dire conditions. Dujgu territory, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. January 19, 2023.
© MSF/Philomène Franssen
People on the move from South to North America traverse a river in the Darién Gap, the dangerous jungle border between Colombia and Panama. From January to November, almost half a million migrants crossed the Darién Gap. Panama, 2023. © Juan Carlos Tomasi/MSF
MSF staff treat a young patient at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza on Oct. 19. Providing healthcare and scaling up lifesaving assistance were nearly impossible because of the intensity of bombings and shelling, as well as intense fighting. Medical staff and patients have been arrested, abused and killed. Since the war began, MSF medical teams and patients were forced to evacuate nine different healthcare facilities in Gaza, as of February 2024. Five MSF colleagues were killed during that same period. Palestine, 2023.
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Beatriz* (left), a midwife trainee, speaks with colleagues at Chingussura health centre in Beira, where MSF supports Ministry of Health staff who provide safe abortion care and maternity services. A year ago, when she was still in school, Beatriz came to the health centre as a patient for safe abortion care. She had heard about the centre’s services from other health workers. “I had support from my family, from my husband. At first, he didn’t accept it, but after we discussed my situation, that I was studying, he accepted it.” Mozambique, 2023. *Name changed. © Miora Rajaonary
19-year-old Naqiba leaves the MSF-supported Band-e-Amir community health facility after receiving a postnatal consultation. MSF opened Band-e-Amir community health facility in late December 2022. The facility offers antenatal care (ANC), postnatal care (PNC), delivery and maternal care, under-5 paediatric consultations, malnutrition monitoring and referrals of complicated cases.
© Nava Jamshidi
After an accident in 2016 in the Central African Republic, Bienvenu (young male with pink jersey) had his right leg amputated. He received medical care and physiotherapy treatment from MSF, who performed the surgery. On average, our teams at the SICA hospital in Bangui perform operations and provide follow-up care to approximately 320 people each month who have been injured in road accidents or violent situations. © Kristen Poels/MSF

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