Crisis of care - Dr Maria Guevera on the State of the Humanitarian Sector

Dr Maria Guevera, MSF medical secretary, explores the impact global humanitarian funding cuts are having on the humanitarian sector and how these cuts are set to place more pressure on MSF and other humanitarian actors that are still able to operate. The video looks at the pressures faced by humanitarian actors in the face of increasing levels of conflict, climate change related disasters, and global health threats which are converging to intensify humanitarian crises.

With rising needs, shrinking global funding for partner organisations, and weakened partnerships, MSF faces a challenge as it looks to respond to emergencies worldwide.

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Date taken / Date Recorded 30/06/2025 9:39 AM

Commissioning section MSF-SOUTH AFRICA

Photographer / videographer / producer Tadeu Andre

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The emergencies are that much more complex

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and we need more hands on the ground.

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In the last decade

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for MSF, we're seeing -
especially post-Covid, we're seeing

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this triple crisIs of conflict, contagion
and climate change.

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And they are really working to complexify
each other,

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compounding, making emergencies
more severe, more frequent,

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more violent, more challenging for MSF

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to meet all the needs.

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Now that the cuts are there,

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not only from the US,
but it's also been ongoing.

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We've seen it from

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the UK, we've seen it from France,
across the board in the last years,

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and this is putting a significant pressure
on medical humanitarian action.

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We're losing the partners that we have
on the ground that we usually refer to.

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It's not only the UN or the W.H.O.

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task force to really see how
they can merge their different, agencies.

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it's also affecting local NGOs
and international NGOs.

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Some of them are the partners we actually
refer to in cases like, for example, HIV.

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That's huge, especially for key
populations in the access

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to programming
that may not be running anymore,

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which puts a question to MSF
having to face significant contexts

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that are very violent today,
as we know, like Gaza

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or South Sudan or Sudan.

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But we're also having to now
look at the other programmes

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and how much more can we expand
or expand into HIV or TB

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or malaria, or sexual
reproductive health programs, which is a

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huge element of the work of MSF.

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And then outbreaks, and we know that is -
if we learned anything from Covid,

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we know that is not, if it will happen,
but when, and are we ready?