In the early hours of Saturday, April 3, a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance, travelling from Rokero to Al-Fasher Hospital in Sudan was carjacked. The passengers, which included a pregnant woman being referred to hospital for emergency treatment, had all their belongings stolen and were left by the roadside in a […]
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The MSF surgical team in Bambari hospital and colleagues in the Ministry of Health treated a total of 36 war-wounded patients at Bambari Regional Hospital.
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It’s time for Big Pharma to do the right thing
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By Omar Ebeid, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Project Coordinator working in Baghdad, Iraq.
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In recent weeks, tens of thousands of displaced people have arrived in cities in the conflict-hit region of Tigray, northern Ethiopia.
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Nineteen-year-old Kundyz, from Karakalpakstan, in northwest Uzbekistan, has been on treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) for more than eight months. Initially treated in hospital, she later switched to taking her medication at home in the company of a nurse – a method known as directly observed treatment, or DOT. Taking multiple drugs, many with unpleasant […]
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MSF is seeing a dramatic influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in Aden and many other parts of the country.
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Latest facts (Updated June 19, 2023) • Out of the 108 million displaced people estimated by UNHCR, over 62.5 million are IDPs. • There are over 35.3 million refugees around the world. • There are approximately 5.4 million asylum seekers, people whose claim for refugee status has not yet been determined. • Lower-income nations host 76 per cent of the […]
Terms of a deal disclosed show that we cannot rely on pharma’s goodwill to do the right thing, even in a pandemic.
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There are currently around 860,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Most of them live in Cox’s Bazar district. The activities which Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) carries out for these refugees are centralized around the so-called ‘mega camp’, a large collection of 26 camps. In recent years, barbed and razor wire fencing was erected. The living […]
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