Since February, another heavy wave of COVID-19 has swept through the West Bank. Over 20,000 patients are currently being treated for COVID-19.
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Article Type: Press release
Panama: MSF begins operations with migrations in the Darién forest
MSF calls for the creation of safe routes between Colombia and Panama for people in transit.
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Nigeria: Zamfara state gripped by humanitarian crisis as violence escalates
MSF is calling for an urgent humanitarian response for people in the region, who are desperately short of food, drinking water, shelter, protection and basic services, including healthcare.
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Conflict in Burkina Faso: when the whole day is devoted to fetching water
Since 2018, this region has been at the centre of a growing armed conflict, which has engulfed much of the greater African Sahel that covers also the neighbouring countries.
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DRC: Half a million without drinking water following volcano eruption
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges for further assistance to people left without water following the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) volcano eruption in May 2021. Hundreds of thousands of people have been left displaced, and over half a million in the city of Goma have been left without access to clean drinking water, following […]
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MSF tells MPs that Canada must do more to address inequitable global access to vaccines
The following is a transcript of opening words by Jason Nickerson, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Humanitarian Representative to Canada to the Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on International Trade in May 2021. Hello, thank you for having us. We’re going to speak to two issues that are part of the Committee’s study, from the perspective of our […]
Myanmar: MSF’s Yangon office becomes clinic amid collapsing health system
The violence and intimidation committed by security forces in Myanmar is creating a climate of fear and disrupting HIV patients’ access to life-saving antiretroviral treatment.
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Goma, DRC: MSF statement on volcanic eruption
By Magali Roudaut, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Head of Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Following order by the authorities to partially evacuate the city of Goma due to the risk of further eruptions and earthquakes, MSF is doing its best to ensure its staff is in safety while ensuring continuation of operations. […]
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Haiti: MSF denounces unbearable “ordinary violence” after killing of staff member
A staff member of the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Tabarre trauma hospital was attacked and struck by a gunshot on his way home from work on the evening of May 25, even though he did not resist his attackers. He was rushed back to the hospital, but he was dead on arrival. A […]
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No refuge or protection for thousands of people recently deported from the U.S.
By Laura Panqueva Otálora, MSF Head of Communications in Mexico.
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