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Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders UK. providing medical care where it's needed most since 1971. Independent. Neutral. Impartial.
London
Joined May 2008
📲For more stories, news, videos and photos from MSF UK, you can find us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube. You can sign up for updates in your inbox on our website: https://t.co/J4oQa9Yga8
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🤔 What are muac bands and what do we use them for? Here, Amber explains this useful bit of kit that helps us diagnose acute malnutrition in children.
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📢 South Sudan's health system is stretched to breaking point. In a new MSF report, released today, we describe the human impact of a faltering health system and humanitarian response 👇 https://t.co/Pbm8nNVWQM
@FCDOGovUK @JennyChapman
msf.org.uk
Communities are facing multiple overlapping crises: conflict, large-scale displacement, flooding, malnutrition, and disease outbreaks
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First in our two-day mini-series of virtual posters, find out how a community-integrated intervention in Malakal, South Sudan, overcame a lack of toys and limited space to assist severely malnourished children’s recovery through psychostimulation including play.
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🌟 Less than 24 hours left to enter the Glastonbury Festival fundraising prize draw for the chance to win one of the first 25 pairs of tickets to the 2027 festival! 👇
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Enter Glastonbury Festival’s fundraiser to win 1 of 25 pairs of 2027 tickets, supporting MSF’s work with people affected in Gaza and Sudan.
Just 24 hours left to enter our prize draw for the first 25 pairs of tickets to Glastonbury Festival 2027. Enter now at https://t.co/EyQ8MmHNBm All funds raised (after payment processing fees) will support @MSF_uk's vital work providing medical care to people affected by the
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📢 Live webinar on the health impacts of climate change in humanitarian settings. Register now to attend the launch event of the 2025 MSF and Lancet Countdown's Joint Brief, on 4 November 12pm GMT. Find out more 👇 https://t.co/5h1zQ5IAWw
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TFN is @scvotweet's magazine for the #VoluntarySector This month we hear the powerful – and shocking – testimony of humanitarian workers on the frontline in #Gaza, with: @MSF_uk
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@Oxfam
@ActionAid
@MedicalAidPal Read it here: https://t.co/h9x5C4pKUu
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More than one million Palestinians are still being forced to survive on a tiny patch of land, and in dangerous living conditions in southern Gaza, says Doctors Without Borders (MSF). 🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/d7iGltL0pm
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“We heard loud explosions, the hospital windows were shaking — it was clear a powerful blast wave had hit,” says Olha Severyn, an MSF anaesthesiologist. “Among the wounded were two girls, aged 15 and 17, with concussions. We stabilised and referred them to a specialised facility”
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At our mobile clinic with @MSF_uk at RAF Wethersfield, 62% of patients seen in appointments faced severe mental distress, and 30% had suicidal thoughts. #CommunitiesNotCamps are vital for health 🔗 https://t.co/m9QnfheJpq
@AsylumMatters @HelenBamber @Care4Calais
doctorsoftheworld.org.uk
For over one year, Doctors of the World, in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières, ran a primary healthcare mobile clinic outside the main gates of the former RAF base at Wethersfield.
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MSF treats millions of malaria, HIV, and TB patients annually and works closely with organisations funded by the Global Fund. Cuts would harm patients who cannot afford care, as shown in our report ‘Deadly Gaps: Don’t turn away from saving lives.’ https://t.co/cm7Ka4zjH5 4/4
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MSF released a report covering the challenges that the worldwide response to malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis may face if the Global Fund's upcoming replenishment conference is insufficient.
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Liz Harding, MSF’s Humanitarian Representative, says: "This is a pivotal moment for the Global Fund and for global health more broadly. No host has ever reduced its previous pledge – the UK must not be the first.” 3/4
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For 20+ years, the Global Fund has been the largest financial backer in the fight against HIV, TB, and malaria — saving 70 million lives. Yet, reports suggest the UK may cut its previous £1B pledge to £800M. The world’s most vulnerable will pay the price. 2/4
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🚨 With just over a month until the Global Fund replenishment summit, MSF warns the UK must ensure the fund remains fully financed and not reduce its pledge. Cutting its pledge would have catastrophic consequences for global health. 1/4
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Yesterday, MSF representatives joined with @KensingtonRoyal and others from across the humanitarian sector to to commemorate all humanitarians who have been killed in service – of whatever nationality – and to celebrate humanitarianism.
Launching the Global Humanitarian Memorial today in Gunnersbury Park. Recognising humanitarian work and honouring the lives of aid workers is more important than ever. Their work is critical to the preservation of life and human dignity for millions of people around the world.
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...and to everyone taking part in the prize draw - it will make a life-saving difference. Enter the prize draw here👇 https://t.co/2EUY80QSXL
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Enter Glastonbury Festival’s fundraiser to win 1 of 25 pairs of 2027 tickets, supporting MSF’s work with people affected in Gaza and Sudan.
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Earlier this year, Glastonbury Festival made a donation to support our work in Sudan and our Reconstructive Surgery Hospital in Amman, Jordan. We want to say a huge thank you to everyone at Glastonbury Festival for their continued support and fundraising...
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⭐Want to support our work AND be in with a chance of winning one of 25 pairs of tickets to @glastonbury 2027? Enter the Glastonbury Festival prize draw! The money from the prize draw will support our work providing medical care to people affected by conflicts in Gaza & Sudan.
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We’re pleased to offer the first 25 pairs of tickets to Glastonbury Festival 2027 (Wed 23rd June to Sun 27th June, 2027) - in a prize draw raising emergency funds for @MSF_uk. Enter now at https://t.co/EyQ8MmHNBm All funds raised (after payment processing fees) will support
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Just over a week ago, we witnessed the entirely preventable deaths of at least four people, one of whom, tragically was an unaccompanied child supported by our team in Calais. What we need are safe, accessible routes - not more cruelty disguised as policy.
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Instead, they force men, women and children to take even more dangerous and desperate journeys with devastating - sometimes fatal consequences.
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