MSF condemns a serious and violent obstruction of medical aid, and calls for respect of humanitarian and medical action and the civilian population.
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Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 2 – June to August 2020
This report is the second of the accountability reports MSF is producing on our COVID-19 response. Read also the first report, covering the period March – May 2020.
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MSF in Honduras: Increasing activities to care for people most affect by hurricanes
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing comprehensive medical care to people affected by the recent hurricanes that have battered Honduras. As of November 25, an estimated 89,335 people are in shelters and 399,062 have been evacuated from their homes. Almost a third of the country’s population has been affected by this emergency, most […]
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Lebanon: Overlapping crises increase needs and worsen access to care
Since late 2019, Lebanon has been grappling with its worst economic crisis in decades, social unrest and political turmoil. On top of that, and following the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of 2020, a major explosion tore through the capital, Beirut, in August. These overlapping crises have exacerbated people’s vulnerability and pushed […]
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MSF is treating people injured in attacks in central Mali
An ppdate on the rise in violence in Douentza, central Mali, and MSF’s response.
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CAR: MSF denounces the killing of several civilians, including one if its staff members, in shooting incident near Bambari
The staff member had been severely wounded in the incident that took place on December 28, and which killed a number of passengers and injured several others.
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Nigeria: Long malaria season claims lives in Borno
Nigeria has some of the highest number of deaths from malaria worldwide. Usually, peak malaria season takes place during the rainy season from August to mid-October, when mosquitoes breed, after which patient numbers begin to decrease. This year, however, medical teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) working in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state have witnessed […]
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Afghanistan: Persistent insecurity amid ‘peace protest’
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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Diseases, Epidemics and Pandemics
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 […]
Recurring nightmare in Yemen: Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities
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 […]