2024 Annual Report

EDITO

The events of 2024 were a continuation of preceding years, dominated by multiple humanitarian crises resulting in waves of suffering for the victims of wars and devastating social and economic crises.

Environmental conflicts and political instability compounded the effects of conflicts, which were already having a particularly deadly impact on civilians, leading to mass movements of exiles. At the same time, the biggest public sector funders in the humanitarian ecosystem, the United States and Europe, announced drastic cuts to their funding.
Despite outbreaks of violence, our international medical and activist organisation stood firm, continuing to represent humanity at the heart of the conflicts. Over the year, Médecins du Monde intervened in around thirty countries, including France, caring, bearing witness, and striving to be an actor of social change and to promote fundamental rights.

On 24 January 2025, the Trump administration announced the immediate suspension (for 90 days) of current and future projects funded by the United States. Almost US$70 billion, destined for the Department of State and USAID, the United States international development agency, was frozen.

This represented around 40% of total humanitarian aid around the world. Less brutally but with equally serious consequences, France reduced its budget for official development assistance (APD) by 37% at the start of 2025, while most other European countries announced cuts of around 50%, contributing to the chaos of the current system with disastrous humanitarian consequences, at a time when needs have never been so pressing. Under these conditions, it is clear that international solidarity – crisis management mechanisms and those involved in it, including the United Nations – is under full-scale attack.