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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Tens of thousands of migrants are trapped in extremely vulnerable conditions in northern and southern Mexico due to failed asylum policies and mass deportations from the US, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today, denouncing the overcrowded conditions and lack of access to medical and social services for migrants […]
An alarming jump in the number of patients with hepatitis E and acute watery diarrhea has been seen in the camp for internal displaced persons (IDP) in Bentiu, South Sudan. The situation is critical with two deaths already registered within a month since end July, alerted the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans […]
As Canadians prepare to vote in this year’s federal election, I am writing on behalf of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to remind you that, upon taking office, Canada’s next government will need to respond immediately to a wide range of global emergencies, including disease epidemics, natural disasters, armed conflicts, and the humanitarian impacts of climate change. As […]
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In the Al-Awda hospital paediatric unit in northern Gaza, Mohammed Aboud, a father of five, comforts his four-year-old daughter Hala as she slowly wakes up after her surgery. The scene is all too familiar to Mohammed now. Over the last few weeks, Hala has already been operated on five times. On 14 July 2021, Mohammed […]
Paediatric formulations of bedaquiline and delamanid are still out of reach.
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