Angumu is a mountainous area in Ituri province, in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), near the Ugandan border. It is a remote place and reaching the communities that live there can be challenging. The few roads that run through the mountain forest are reminiscent of dried river beds, uneven and full of loose stones […]
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Almost three months after suspending medical activities in two detention centres in Tripoli following a series of concerning incidents, Doctors Without Border/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has returned to work in these centres, to provide vital medical care for detained migrants and refugees. MSF has also resumed activities in a third detention centre, which it had […]
In the neighbourhood of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Ihsan Ali sits with his four children in their home. The 44-year-old man is enjoying the company of his family after weeks of having to isolate from them. Ihsan has had tuberculosis (TB) couple of times before, but most recently he was diagnosed with a multidrug-resistant […]
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People are facing a desperate situation in northern Syria, as limited access to clean water over the past few months has reached breaking point. A decade of war has left water and sanitation infrastructure destroyed and neglected, and today over three million people, mostly displaced by the conflict, are suffering dire consequences. “Even when water […]
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A message to newly re-elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from MSF Canada.
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Fighting in the city of Kunduz in north-eastern Afghanistan ended on August 8, 2021. During the clashes, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) transformed its office space into a temporary trauma unit to treat the people wounded. That unit is now closed and on August 16, all patients were transferred to the nearly-finished Kunduz Trauma […]
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The incidence of malaria cases has decreased by 80 percent in areas where teams from MSF work alongside local authorities in the northeastern state of Sucre.
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In her State of the European Union speech of September 15, 2021, EU Commission President Von der Leyen has yet again underlined the importance of global access to vaccines in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Does this mean the EU’s words will finally turn into deeds? Or is her speech just another empty promise? Since April […]
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all activities in the Amhara, Gambella and Somali regions of Ethiopia, as well as in the west and northwest of Tigray region, to comply with a three-month suspension order from the Ethiopian Agency for Civil Society Organizations (ACSO) on July 30, 2021. […]
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The greatest number of deaths and injuries from Haiti’s August 14, 2021, earthquake occurred in the country’s southernmost region, the Sud department. Prior to this disaster, hospitals and clinics were already scarce in remote areas of Sud, and the earthquake damaged or destroyed many health facilities and roadways, making it difficult for earthquake survivors in […]
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