The Humanitarian Lens

The Humanitarian Lens

The Humanitarian Lens is a podcast produced by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA. Hosted by MSF USA CEO, Avril Benoît, each episode explores humanitarian crises through the first-hand experience of our staff caring for people affected by conflict, epidemics, natural and human-made disasters, and other emergencies in more than 70 countries around the world.

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July 10, 2025 23 mins

On this episode of the Humanitarian Lens podcast, host Avril Benoît speaks with Dr. Aqsa Durrani, a US-based pediatrician and epidemiologist, whose latest assignment was at an MSF field hospital in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza.  

Dr. Durrani describes the immense suffering of civilians across the Gaza Strip after more than a year and a half of an all-out war and a brutal siege. Israeli forces are systematically destroying the cond...

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What is happening in Sudan?


On this first episode of The Humanitarian Lens podcast from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA, join host Avril Benoît and MSF doctor Mohammed Fadlalla for a deep dive into the spiraling humanitarian emergency in Sudan.


More than two years of war in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

have left more than 30 million people in...

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