“We have to be grateful that we now have water, but we don’t usually have enough water when we enter the dry and hot season,” says Adama. She was forced from her home by the violence that has spread throughout Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. Adama now lives in a camp for displaced people in […]
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by Dr. Gilles van Cutsem, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Senior HIV/TB adviser and international HIV/AIDS working group lead.
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Dotted across Marib governorate, in northeast Yemen, are 134 camps – temporary home to Yemenis displaced from their homes by the six-year-long conflict, African migrants stranded in Yemen, and members of a vulnerable minority group from Yemen known as Al-Muhamasheen. Before the start of the conflict, Marib was home to almost 400,000 people, according to […]
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Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people.
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The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the renewed processing of asylum claims by the United States at some points along Mexico’s northern border, but remains concerned about the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who remain stranded in poor conditions in Mexico. The US and Mexico have prioritized processing […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the national response to the new Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), through a mobile intervention to the benefit of patients, their families and the communities living in the affected area. “We are supporting the Matanda general hospital, in the Vungi […]
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MSF International President appeals to governments stonewalling on landmark proposal.
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Since the start of the war in Syria 10 years ago, the lives of Syrian people have been under threat. Back in 2011, the situation quickly shifted from localized protests to a full-scale war, leading to a devastating humanitarian situation that persists a decade later. In the course of 10 years, 12 million Syrians – […]
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Self-care offers an opportunity to empower patients to manage their own health.
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We all want the power to invest in our wellbeing – to be able to take care of our emotional, physical and mental health. But without reliable information and appropriate tools, reasonable options and adequate support, it’s not always possible. Self-care is changing the face of healthcare. It focuses on equipping and entrusting people to […]