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Palestine: MSF teams respond to “ruthless attacks” by Israeli forces in Gaza

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In the early hours of March 18, renewed attacks on parts of Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, hundreds of people have been killed. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is horrified by the attacks launched by Israel on March 18 on the people of Gaza, shattering the nearly two-month-old ceasefire. Out of the […]

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Haiti: MSF vehicles shot during hospital evacuation amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemn the intentional opening of fire on four clearly marked MSF vehicles while we were seeking safety for staff amid escalating violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  Violence close to the Turgeau emergency centre has forced MSF to suspend again activities in the hospital on March 15 and evacuate our […]

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Afghanistan: Alarming surge of measles cases at MSF-supported facilities in Balkh, Herat and Helmand

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Afghanistan have reported a surge in measles patients at three MSF-supported hospitals since January. While measles is endemic in Afghanistan, such a high number of cases so early in the year is cause for alarm.  At least one child in Afghanistan has died from measles every day […]

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MSF briefs UN Security Council on Sudan: A catastrophic “war on people”

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Christopher Lockyear, secretary general of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), briefed the United Nations Security Council today on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by war in Sudan, calling for an end to violence against civilians and a new commitment to deliver essential aid. The war in Sudan is above all a “war on people,” Lockyear […]

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Palestine: Israeli authorities must stop collective punishment and use of aid as a tool of war in Gaza

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the Israeli-imposed siege on Gaza, which is depriving people of basic services and critical supplies, including access to water by cutting electricity supply on March 9.  Israeli authorities have instrumentalized humanitarian needs by using them as a bargaining chip, such as cutting the electricity supply to Gaza […]

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Haiti: Escalating violence, worsening health needs in Port-au-Prince

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Since Feb. 24, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Haiti have witnessed a surge in violence, resulting in an increasing number of wounded people and medical needs. Clashes between armed groups and police are intensifying, leaving civilians trapped under constant threat of crossfire. Today, 85 per cent of Port-au-Prince is under the control of […]

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Gaza: MSF project coordinator Sarah Vulstyeke on destruction, people’s immense needs in the north 

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Sarah Vulstyeke is a project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She recently returned from the Gaza Strip coordinating operations with an MSF team in northern Gaza, where MSF runs mobile clinics to provide medical assistance to people through general consultations, treatment of non-communicable diseases, dressings and health promotion. During the first and […]

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Sudan: Cholera outbreak, over 2,700 treated and 92 dead

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Since Feb. 20, when the latest cholera outbreak started in Sudan’s White Nile State, until March 5, a total of 2,718 cases have been admitted to the Ministry of Health cholera treatment centre at Kosti teaching hospital, which is supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Sadly, 92 of these patients have died.  This […]

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South Sudan: Celebrating the impact of female MSF staff

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On this International Women’s Day we highlight the incredible stories of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) female staff in South Sudan.   From a nurse in the remote area of Boma, to the head of community health in Renk, to Juba’s warehouse manager and air conditioning (AC) technician, these women working with MSF exemplify resilience […]

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Crossing the border: Palestinians’ journeys of war and survival

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The road leading south to the city of Rafah, near Gaza’s border with Egypt, is lined with destruction. Wherever you look, the scene is unrecognizable. Most people in Gaza have been displaced multiple times, forced to leave one shelter after another in the hope that the next place would be safe. But nowhere was safe. […]

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