Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador have been responding to the COVID-19 emergency for the last six months and all three countries are now showing a decreasing number of cases.
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Read More… from Mexico, Honduras & El Salvador: A Multidisciplinary COVID-19 response
Indigenous communities in Brazil have been especially vulnerable to COVID-19. In the central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, which is home to many indigenous communities, teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are helping prevent, diagnose and treat COVID-19. With few doctors in Mato Grosso do Sul, there is often no […]
By Aurélie Ponthieu, Humanitarian Specialist for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
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Read More… from Moria Camp: If the only way to break free is to burn your house, something is wrong
Gwoza, a garrison town in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, is home to 60,000 people, many of them displaced from their homes elsewhere by the conflict. Living conditions are difficult, there is little humanitarian aid, and frequent clashes take place between the military and armed groups. Many people in Gwoza have witnessed acts of violence or […]
Read More… from Borno state, Nigeria: Difficult living conditions and frequent clashes
MSF humanitarian affairs advisor, Hassiba Hadj-Sahraoui provides an overview.
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The hospital in Batangafo – a town of 31,000 people, including 22,000 displaced from elsewhere in the Central African Republic – is bustling with activity.
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Approximately 12,000 men, women, and children urgently need a safe place to stay.
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Read More… from Greece: Fire destroys Europe’s largest refugee camp
An interview with Jonathan Whittall, former MSF emergency coordinator in Beirut and director of MSF’s Analysis Department.
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On June 1, 2020, a new Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak was declared in Équateur province, western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the country’s eleventh recorded epidemic. Declared while DRC was still grappling with the tenth Ebola epidemic in the country’s northeast, and amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, this new Ebola outbreak has already spread to […]
Read More… from DRC: Responding to the new Ebola outbreak in Équateur province
More than 2,000 asylum seekers sheltering in a camp in Matamoros, at the Mexican border with Texas, are now dealing with even more fear and uncertainty as the number of COVID-19 cases rises in Mexico and the government fails to take decisive action. These people are living in tents packed closely together, unable to practice social distancing and with […]
Read More… from Mexico: Asylum seekers stranded in Matamoros tent camp face threat of COVID-19