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Burkina Faso: providing healthcare in a region ravaged by violence

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Burkina Faso’s North region hosts more than 100,000 internally displaced people who fled recurring violence in this part of the country. Since January 2021, MSF’s mobile teams have been offering healthcare support to people in the villages of Sirfou, Todiame, Rounga and Ouindigui, where thousands of these displaced persons have settled, but where access to […]

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As famine looms in southern Madagascar, MSF appeals for massive increase in emergency food aid

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An immediate and massive increase in food aid is urgently needed for people in southern Madagascar, says international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose teams in the region are witnessing an exceptionally severe malnutrition crisis which in some places borders on famine. “We’re seeing totally destitute people who have literally nothing to […]

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Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: Focus on fighting ‘terrorists’ ignores humanitarian needs

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The following is an op-ed by Jonathan Whittal, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Director of Analysis Department in Johannesburg.  Three important developments took place in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province in less than six weeks, all of which will have a significant future impact on human lives.  First, in mid-March the United States government designated […]

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It’s not only vaccines: Oxygen must be at the heart of the COVID-19 response

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With vaccines unavailable in the majority of countries worldwide, people will continue to fall ill with COVID-19 and without a significant investment in oxygen infrastructure, those whose illness is severe and who cannot access oxygen will continue to die.

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Search and rescue in Central Mediterranean: MSF urged to keep saving lives at Sea for the seventh consecutive year

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MSF announces the relaunch of its search and rescue activities in the central Mediterranean to save the lives of refugees and migrants attempting the deadly sea crossing from Libya.

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