For more than 10 years, Médecins du Monde has been working to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer, both in low- and middle-income countries and among vulnerable populations in France.

As it does every year, the International Network of Médecins du Monde summarizes the key information from a busy year in its annual report. It highlights some of the projects that have been implemented and bears witness to our joint advocacy work. In total, 451 projects were implemented by Médecins du Monde in 2024 in 71 countries.

Médecins du Monde has been committed for many years to access to safe abortion. In line with the 2022 guidelines on abortion-related care, MdM is expanding its self-care strategies and recognises self-managed abortion as an effective method for ensuring meaningful access to safe abortion in many contexts and for reducing maternal mortality.

Discover this new 2024 annual report from the movement working to advance the right to and access to safe abortion in French-speaking Africa, tracing the achievements, challenges and learning over the past year.

In an alarming report published today, Médecins du Monde notes that in just a year and a half, acute malnutrition in Gaza has reached levels comparable to those seen in countries facing protracted humanitarian crises spanning several decades. The root cause: the siege imposed by Israeli authorities. Médecins du Monde calls on States to take immediate action to prevent malnutrition-related deaths.

Israeli obstructions to aid and attacks on humanitarian workers: Médecins du Monde's year in the occupied Palestinian territory

How have NGOs been able to work and deliver humanitarian aid this past year in Gaza? While the International Court of Justice has warned of a risk of genocide, and war is escalating in the West Bank and Lebanon, Médecins du Monde has released a report exposing Israeli obstructions of aid and the attacks that the organisation and its humanitarian workers have been facing for a year in the occupied Palestinian territory.

In 2023, Médecins du Monde has continued its tradition of the last forty years, offering its services in a world of ongoing emergencies and growing uncertainty: social crises, health crises, violations of fundamental rights, natural disasters, and specifically conflict in Ukraine and Gaza… In response to continuing and emerging events, MdM continues to face these challenges thanks to its structure, management and the commitment of everyone involved.

Discover the 2023 Médecins du Monde's Annual Report

As members of Doctors of the World-Médecins du Monde (MdM), we want a world where barriers to health have been overcome and where the right to health has been achieved.

This new Strategic Plan, seven years after the preceding one, marks the moment at which Médecins du Monde comes of age.

Health education is a key activity in any health promotion programme. Its goal is to enable everyone to make responsible choices relating to the behaviours that have an influence on their health and that of their community.

At least one in three women worldwide has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in other ways, usually by her husband or another male family member. In France, one woman is beaten to death by her partner every four days. A survey conducted in Santiago, Chile, indicates that 80% of women admit to having experienced abuse, either by a male family member or their partner. In a study conducted in Bangladesh, 18% of female deaths result from injuries, intentional or not, and 52% occur during or immediately after pregnancy. The authors conclude that the underlying causes of these deaths are clearly social, and can be viewed as the result of men’s strict control over women’s sexual and reproductive lives.

Dans le cadre d’un projet transversal, sur la thématique des Violences Liées au Genre, Médecins du Monde France a conçu un guide thématique « Violences Faites aux Femmes : genre, culture et société ».

The aim of this paper is to present the different steps and rules for the preparation and implementation of quantitative surveys which must be rigorously implemented in order to make full use of the results (i.e. capturing representative data, applicable to the entire population).