In Iraq’s northern sub-district of Qayyarah, merely 60 kilometers south of Mosul the capital of Nineveh province, traces of a war subsided three years ago are still starkly evident. There, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the only hospital specialized in burns in Nineveh, a province still reeling from the shock of a ferocious war […]
Issue: Access to Healthcare
COVID-19 in Iran: MSF ‘deeply surprised’ as Iranian authorities put a stop to coronavirus response
MSF is ready to deploy its emergency team and inflatable 50-bed facility elsewhere in Iran or to other countries where they are urgently needed.
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World Tuberculosis Day 2020: COVID-19 and TB require global solidarity
TB is the world’s leading infectious disease killer with nearly 10 million people affected and 1.5 million deaths in 2018
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COVID-19 in Iran: MSF provides support with response in second worst affected province
MSF has sent a 50-bed inflatable treatment unit and an emergency team of nine people to Isfahan, the second worst affected province in Iran, to increase hospital capacity for treating the critically ill.
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COVID-19: Ocean Viking arbitrarily quarantined by Italian authorities over fears
« Il s’agit d’une action discriminatoire – les seuls navires mis en quarantaine sont ceux qui effectuent des opérations de sauvetage. »
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Northwest Syria: The struggle of the population continues
The military offensive carried out by the Government of Syria and its allies in Northwest Syria, has led to the displacement of almost a million people in the space of just four months in the Idlib region. People have had to flee from their homes or from the camps they were already displaced in, to […]
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Jonglei & the Greater Pibor Adminstrative area: Massive influx of wounded and displaced people
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams have received a mass influx of 83 wounded patients in Pieri and Lankien over the space of just five days between March 9-13, and have treated 45 gunshot wounds in Pibor over the past months as waves of intercommunal clashes in Jonglei State and the Greater Pibor […]
Libya: Asylum seeker dies in detention centre fire
During the night of Saturday February 29 to Sunday March 1, a fire broke out in Dhar el Jebel detention centre, where over 500 refugees and migrants are arbitrarily detained south of Tripoli in the Nafusa Mountains in Libya. A 26 years old Eritrean man tragically lost his life as he got caught up in the flames […]
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International Women’s Day 2020: Why are so many women dying of cervical cancer?
In 2018, an estimated 311,000 women died of cervical cancer. More than 85 percent of those women lived in low- and middle-income countries. In the same year, 570,000 new cases were diagnosed.
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Photo story: Preventing cervical cancer in Malawi
In late January 2020, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) implemented an HPV vaccination campaign for 8,500 nine-year-old girls in the Chiradzulu district of Malawi. Cervical cancer is largely preventable, and yet it is fatal for a disproportionate number of women in low- and middle-income countries. Particularly in sub-saharan Africa, cervical cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related mortality in women. Effective prevention The most effective prevention […]
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