The number of displaced people seeking safety in Burkina Faso’s Centre-North region has almost doubled in six months to 386,000 as a result of growing insecurity and violence. Many have no option but to stay in improvised shelters in remote areas, without basic services and exposed to the elements. In Pissila, a town some 130 […]
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An increasing number of refugees in Greece with severe health and mental health conditions are being threatened with eviction from their accommodation, cut off from cash assistance and left in the streets without access to shelter, protection or proper healthcare, says international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Looking for a quick […]
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As members of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), we are shocked and deeply saddened by the news of the killing of a community health worker who was supported by our organization in South-West Cameroon. We offer our deepest condolences to his family and community. We were notified of his killing through an official statement […]
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120,707 people signed petitions urging the corporation to drop the price.
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A review on COVID-19, climate crisis and systemic inequality.
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The number of displaced people is growing in Cabo Delgado. In February, at least 200,000 people were displaced due to the conflict. Since, numerous attacks on villages across the region have uprooted thousands more from their homes. Armed groups are waging attacks in this complex, resource rich region. Today, the north of Mozambique is the epicenter […]
Thousands of people have fled into the bush in the Greater Pibor Administrative area in eastern South Sudan as intense fighting over several days yet again threatens the lives of entire communities, warns the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The new and brutal rise in intercommunal clashes has led MSF […]
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The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance will meet this week on June 24-25.
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The MSF team is visiting shelters, hostels, hotels and community kitchens to provide medical care and psychological support and to offer advice and practical help on preventive measures, aimed at the people using these facilities as well as the staff and volunteers who run them.
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As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise in India, MSF opened a 100-bed temporary treatment centre for COVID-19 patients in Patna, the capital of Bihar state in the northeast of the country.
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