In September 2018, nurse Awa Abou Amadou was working at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) paediatric unit in Magaria in southern Niger. It was her most challenging experience as a nurse. “We used to admit around 140 children a day. It wasn’t easy,” she says. Among other nurses and medical personnel, she worked […]
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“We don’t have blankets to cover ourselves,” says Aafia, one of thousands internally displaced people sheltering in Yemen’s Marib governorate. “My children have no warm clothes and I don’t have enough food to feed them. I don’t have a house made of bricks; it’s only a tent, which doesn’t even stop the wind during cold […]
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On January 26, 2022, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) closed the chapter on one of its largest interventions in response to the health and humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees in Jordan. MSF’s response to the Syrian refugee crises in Jordan started in 2013, by opening an emergency surgical hospital in Ramtha to treat war-wounded patients […]
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Nine Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff members were detained by the Sudanese authorities in the capital Khartoum on the evening of January 24, 2021, before being released the following morning. At the time of their detention, our team was returning to the MSF office from the hospital where they had been working […]
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As aid organizations and volunteer groups are prevented from accessing the Polish side of the Belarus border zone, residents of the restricted areas and those living close to it are the only people who can reach those in need, although for them providing such assistance is also considered illegal. Helping these women, children and men […]
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Months of tension and protests in Burkina Faso culminated in a military takeover on January 24, 2022. The political crisis adds to a fragile context characterized by an ongoing conflict with a dramatic downturn in security and rocketing displacement. This has left many people in Burkina Faso struggling to find food, water, shelter and medical […]
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An air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition on Sa’ada City Remand Prison in the early hours of January 21, 2021 has killed at least 82 people and injured 266, according to the Ministry of Health, with the death toll likely to increase as researchers still comb the rubble. Two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans […]
Nine hundred dollars meant the difference between imprisonment and freedom for 23-year-old Kouassi [not his real name], who fled his home in Côte d’Ivoire only to be sold to human traffickers in Libya. After being rescued from an unseaworthy boat drifting in the central Mediterranean by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s search and rescue ship […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency teams will start providing medical and humanitarian assistance to communities on the remote islands of Dinagat, Siargao and other outlying areas, some of the worst affected by Typhoon Rai (local name: Odette), which struck the Philippines in December 2021 causing hundreds of casualties. Following assessments carried out between December […]
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By: Adam Houston, Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer in MSF Canada
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