As members of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we are shocked and deeply saddened by the news of the killing of a community health worker who was supported by our organization in South-West Cameroon. We offer our deepest condolences to his family and community. We were notified of his killing through an official statement […]
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In a pink room decorated with white flowers at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Kutupalong field hospital in Bangladesh, a woman lies curled around her sleeping child. It could be a peaceful scene, except for the intravenous lines snaking up from each child’s arm to a saline drip. This is an isolation ward and all […]
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In Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, recurring outbreaks of cholera and typhoid fever are a pressing health concern. In many of the city’s suburbs, public water supply is unreliable, and leaking sewage pipes, pit latrines, and poor waste management contaminate the groundwater. Using innovative borehole technology and empowering communities to manage their own water points, Doctors […]
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A Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) doctor working in Deir Hassan camp, 30 kilometres west of Aleppo, describes the situation as hundreds of thousands of people flee an offensive by government forces on the last opposition-held area in Syria. “In the past week, the army has advanced rapidly through the countryside west of Aleppo. People weren’t […]
Interview with Luis Eguiluz, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in Nigeria since 2017 on the ongoing humantiarian crisis inthe northeast of the country. You arrived in Nigeria in September 2017; do you think the situation for the population in Borno has improved since then? After more than 10 years of conflict […]
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Recent protests in Lebanon have highlighted the growing economic challenges faced by people across the country. Although the situation has worsened considerably over recent months, these challenges have been felt for years by different sections of Lebanese society. Getting hold of affordable medical care, for instance, has long been a particular problem for vulnerable people […]
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MSF is following the fast-evolving development of the disease COVID-19 (formerly known nCoV-2019) it is a type of coronavirus.
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Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killed 11 civilians in November 2019. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s teams working in Dar al Salam hospital treated an 11-year-old girl who lost her entire family and was badly injured during the raids. Her story exposes the harrowing consequences of these attacks for the helpless population of the blockaded […]
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Escalating conflict and insecurity in Libya are leading thousands of people to flee, taking their chances on unseaworthy boats across the Mediterranean. On December 20 2019, Ocean Viking rescued 112 people from a rubber boat 32 nautical miles off the Libyan coast, 21 of whom had survived a deadly airstrike on Tajoura detention centre […]
When one thinks of a nation going through a severe political and economic crisis, the first thing that comes to mind is probably not gold. But in Bolivar, Venezuela’s biggest state, illegal gold mining has been booming for years and the yellow metal has become a motivation for many Venezuelans to head towards the […]
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