The year 2020 has been considered a historic one for Afghanistan. In February, 20 years since the US-led invasion, the US signed a deal with the Islamic Emirate – otherwise known as the Taliban – to pave the way for a conditions-based withdrawal of US troops. In September, intra-Afghan talks between the Taliban and the […]
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Latest Facts • 1,320,100 vaccinations against measles • 59,400 people on first-line HIV anti-retroviral therapy • 4,970 people treated for meningitis • 10,384,000 outpatient consultations Mass outbreaks of cholera, Ebola, measles and tuberculosis have shaken healthcare systems across several countries, including Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lebanon and Central African […]
Renewed conflict on the frontlines to the south of Hudaydah Port on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast has become some of the most intense in the country, and the number of civilians needing major war-trauma surgery is rising, says medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since October, the MSF trauma hospital in the […]
Around one-quarter of our medical humanitarian assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict. Armed conflict devastates lives and destroys communities. Targeted, harassed and caught in hardship and poverty, people are forced into flight or to live under siege and face indiscriminate attacks. Access to basic needs such as food and medical care is often […]
Over 100 countries support the landmark proposal. […]
As winter approaches in northwest Syria, the already harsh living conditions of more than two million displaced people are becoming even more difficult to deal with. People living in camps across the region face the prospect of leaking tents, mud-filled streets and freezing temperatures. For many, it won’t be their first winter in such […]
Read More… from Northwest Syria: Displaced people prepare for another harsh winter
As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) starts meeting today and later this month to discuss emergency use authorization of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that any eventual COVID-19 vaccine approval won’t be enough to solve the global pandemic unless corporations take urgent steps […]
MSF policy briefing for Lancet Countdown.
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On November 4, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered military action against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, following an attack on a military base. The escalating conflict is already affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and it runs the risk of destabilizing other parts of the country and the region, with potentially […]
As a result, HIV remains a leading cause of death in the country. Last year, around 4,800 people died of HIV/AIDS in CAR, while some 5,500 new cases are confirmed every year.
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Read More… from World AIDS Day 2020: Critical HIV situation in Central African Republic