2022: Pictures from a year of humanitarian response

A child plays with a balloon, as part of a mental health activity, at Al-Sweida camp for internally displaced people. Marib, Yemen, December 2021. © Hesham Al Hilali

Patients and their families are transported to Bunia hospital in the UN helicopter. Following attacks in Drodo, forcing the hospital there to be abandoned, the helicopter was the only way to refer people from the MSF-run health centre in nearby Rho displaced people’s camp to hospitals that provide more advanced care. Democratic Republic of Congo, December 2021. © Alexis Huguet

MSF teams try out a water pump as part of a bid to provide clean water and latrines to displaced people in Rho camp. Democratic Republic of Congo, December 2021. © Alexis Huguet

Lithuanian emergency services workers prepare to take a man, who had crossed the border from Belarus and was no longer able to walk, to hospital. Kabeliai, Varėna district, Lithuania, December 2021. © Vidmantas Balkunas/BNS

An MSF staff member inspects the remains of Barangay health centre, which was severely damaged by typhoon Rai (known locally as typhoon Odette). Surigao City, Philippines, January 2022. © Regina Layug Rosero/MSF

Gul washes his hands with the help of his son at the MSF-supported Boost hospital in Lashkar Gah. Helmand province, Afghanistan, January 2022. © Oriane Zerah

Nimo Abdi* rests on her bed in MSF’s drug-resistant tuberculosis ward in Hargeisa. Somaliland, Somalia, February 2022. *name changed to protect identity.  © Sean Sutton

Seven-year-old DR-TB patient Vaishnavi speaks with MSF nurse Prachi during a home visit, as Vaishnavi’s mother Vishaka looks on. Mumbai, India, February 2022. © Prem Hessenkamp

MSF staff walk towards Paukaw township to set up a clinic where they will provide medical and mental healthcare for displaced people in Ah Nau Ywe camp. Myanmar, March 2022. © Ben Small/MSF

Mosquito larvae thrive in standing water in Ramba, Kalehe Territory, where MSF has distributed insecticide-treated mosquito to families to prevent malaria. South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, February 2022. © Norah Mbadu/MSF

Sera James, a resident of Akello village, shares a laugh with her friends as she draws water from a pump MSF teams have just installed to improve the community’s access to clean water during the dry season. Pibor country, South Sudan, March 2022. © Njiiri Karago/MSF

Prototypes of hand and arm prostheses, made as part of MSF’s programme to 3D print prostheses for amputee patients, sit on a shelf. Amman, Jordan, February 2022. © MSF/Soriya

A portrait of M., from Guinea, who was treated by MSF teams in Agadez, Niger, after fleeing Libya, where he was burned, beaten and imprisoned. Agadez, Niger, March 2022. © Yarin Trotta del Vecchio

Children watch a cartoon in the women's area on board MSF’s search and rescue ship, the Geo Barents, following their earlier rescue. Central Mediterranean Sea, March 2022. © Kenny Karpov

Refugees who escaped from Ukraine try to find warmth in a makeshift humanitarian point at the Hrebenne border crossing. Poland, March 2022. © Maciej Moskwa

A mother comforts her daughter while waiting to board a bus at a departure dispatch point for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war. Palanca, Moldova, March 2022. © Maxime Fossat

An MSF staff member wears a prosthetic chest so she and the health promotion team can demonstrate breast self-examination, a technique that women can use to detect lumps for potential breast cancer. Bamako, Mali, March 2022. © Maxime Fossat

MSF teams clean and rehabilitate the wards of a hospital, which was partially destroyed by two cyclones which went through the area in February. Nosy Varika, Madagascar, March 2022. © iAko M. Randrianarivelo/Mira Photo

A fisherman repairs his canoe while he’s unable to fish; there have been no fish since cyclone Batsirai hit the area in early February, devastating livelihoods. Nosy Varika, Madagascar, March 2022. © iAko M. Randrianarivelo/Mira Photo

Aminata looks over her newborn baby, who she delivered at the MSF-supported community health centre in Mile 91, Tonkolili. Tonkolili, Sierra Leone, March 2022. © Oliver Barth/MSF

A man from Venezuela holds his daughter and looks out from the pier along the Tumbes River. The pier, which is 23 kilometres from the Peru-Ecuador border, is where people rest and take shelter before continuing their journey to the border. Central Tumbes, Peru, March 2023. © Max Cabello Orcasitas

A man hangs clothes inside the Integral Attention Centre in Mexico City, where an MSF team offers medical and mental health care to survivors of extreme violence, torture, or inhumane treatment. Mexico City, Mexico, March 2022. © Jordi Ruiz Cirera

Muawiyah Al-Wahidi, who had his right leg amputated after being injured during an airstrike in Gaza City in 2021, is able to continue working as a barber with support from his wife, community, and an MSF psychologist. Gaza City, Palestine, April 2022. © Giles Duley

Amro Ayman Alhadad spends his time drawing and looking after his pet bird since having his leg amputated as a result of an injury from a bullet during the Great March of Return protest movement in 2018. Gaza City, Palestine, April 2022. © Giles Duley