A YEAR IN PICTURES
In 2024, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams witnessed the continuation and escalation of conflicts, such as those in Gaza and Sudan, where unabated wars raged into a second year, and a third year in Ukraine. Our teams were also there for people and families seeking safety throughout the year, whether at the Mexico-U.S. border or onboard our search and rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
This collection of photos, taken between December 2023 and December 2024, features the highs and lows we – and the people we assist – experience as we provide medical and humanitarian assistance in over 70 countries around the world. They show 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 diffcult 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.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
Julienne, a resident of the Kingabwa district in the commune of Limete, stands in front of her door, waiting for her children who have gone to school by canoe. Julienne’s community has experienced flooding for years now, but this time she did not have anywhere else to go, so she stayed in her flooded home. MSF logistical and medical teams work with the Ministry of Health to offer assistance to 400 households affected, including installing latrines and showers, providing tents and drinking water and conducting mobile medical clinics. Democratic Republic of Congo, January 2024. © MSF
SYRIA
A teenager draws on the wall at MSF’s mental health clinic in Al-Hol camp in the northeast. Syria, December 2023. © Azad Mourad/MSF
HONDURAS
Teresa Arteaga and Lorena Rodriguez, MSF health promotion supervisor, participate in the release of Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes in the community of Canaan. These mosquitoes carry a bacterium that decreases their likelihood of transmitting dengue fever. Honduras, September 2024. © Martín Cálix/MSF
SOUTH SUDAN
Ita Joice meets her baby girl, Juan, during her caesarean section in the MSF-supported Mundari County hospital, the only secondary healthcare facility in Kajo Keji, Central Equatoria state. South Sudan, March 2024. © Manon Massiat/MSF
NIGERIA
An MSF logistician guides a truck as it crosses a wooden bridge a short distance away from a primary healthcare facility in Cross River state. The wooden bridge was constructed after the concrete bridge collapsed. It is now old too so the truck must cross without passengers to reduce weight. Nigeria, April 2024. © Abba Adamu Musa/MSF
PALESTINE
Al Shifa medical complex in Gaza after 14 days of siege by Israeli forces. Palestine, April 2024. © MSF
UNITED STATES
MSF project coordinator Belen Ramirez comforts a boy stung by a bee at the End of the Wall camp at the Mexico-U.S. border. The boy’s mom, who is from Guatemala, holds him. The mother shared with MSF how she fled to the U.S. after she was extorted by gangs. She used to own a small business in Guatemala City. “They told me that I would have to pay or they would take my children,” she says. United States, 2024. © Maria Elena Romero/MSF
KENYA
Halitare Abdi Sene, a 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. Kenya, August 2024. © Zainab Mohammed/MSF
SUDAN
The X-ray of a toddler’s skull who was struck by shrapnel during a bomb blast while out shopping with her mother. Along with others who were injured, the girl was brought to the Bashair training hospital in South Khartoum where an MSF emergency team performed lifesaving surgery on her. Sudan, November 2024. © MSF
LEBANON
Ezdihar al Diqa with her daughter, Nouraya, in the room they share with 14 other people at Azariye camp for people who are displaced in Beruit. In response to the escalation of the conflict in Lebanon, MSF sent mobile medical teams across various regions of the country and also distributed essential items such as blankets, hygiene kits and water. Lebanon, October 2024. © Antoni Lallican/Hans Lucas
BRAZIL
MSF works with communities in the Auaris region to reduce malaria infections. The disease is endemic across the greater Amazon region, where the Yanomami Indigenous Territory is located. MSF also works with the Yanomami and Ye’kwana branches of the Indigenous Health System by providing primary healthcare, mental health and health promotion services. Our multidisciplinary team of roughly 20 staff includes doctors, psychologists, nurses, microscopists, health promoters, anthropologists and intercultural mediators. Brazil, June 2024. © Diego Baravelli/MSF
TAJIKISTAN
MSF staff Munira Gulomova speaks with Akmal Uganov at his home in Tursunzoda during a mental health consultation. Uganov fell ill with tuberculosis in 2019. MSF started to offer support to Uganov after his parents died from tuberculosis. This includes monthly medical check-ups, medication, food and psychological support to ensure effective treatment. Tajikistan, May 2024. © Natalia Chekotun/MSFs
UKRAINE
Mr. Yurii has been in the hospital for a month and a half, following a mine-blast injury that resulted in amputation. He focuses on balance exercises during his physiotherapy. Ukraine, October 2024. © Yuliia Trofimova/MSF