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Rafah: Airstrike shows “complete disregard for the lives of civilians in Gaza”

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On the night of May 26, the trauma stabilization point Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports in Tal al Sultan, Gaza, recorded 180 wounded patients and 28 dead after Israeli airstrikes hit a camp sheltering displaced people in a designated safe zone. Most of the patients we treated had shrapnel wounds, fractures, traumatic injuries, and […]

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Women on the move: mothers’ stories from Kanyaruchinya, North Kivu

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Over the past two years, more than one million women, men and children have fled the ongoing fighting in the DRC’s North Kivu province. More than half of them have sought refuge near the provincial capital of Goma, with many living in inhumane conditions on improvised sites where everything is lacking: decent shelter, water, food, […]

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Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF calls for protection of patients, medical facilities and civilians following Drodro hospital attack

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In an escalation of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, armed men attacked the town of Drodro on the night of 6 to 7 March, killing a patient in her bed ransacking the general hospital, and looting medical equipment, says international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), whose teams work in […]

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Gaza: “Staff at Al-Shifa are struggling to care for patients because the needs are huge”

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Last November, Al-Shifa hospital, located in Gaza City, Palestine was brought to a standstill after the Israeli army massively bombed the area around the facility. The hospital was hit several times, then surrounded before being evacuated. The largest hospital in the Gaza Strip was gradually transformed into a camp for displaced people, and now houses […]

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MSF statement on cease of funding to UNRWA

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MSF is deeply alarmed by the decision of some countries to suspend their funding to UNRWA, which is a lifeline for millions of Palestinians in Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the region. In the Gaza strip, the humanitarian crisis has reached catastrophic levels, and any additional limitations on aid will result in more deaths […]

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South Sudan: Amid deadly hepatitis E outbreak, MSF launches mass vaccination campaign to reach remote communities and prevent more deaths

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In response to a deadly hepatitis E outbreak in South Sudan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a vaccination campaign in collaboration with the Ministry of Health to provide protection to women and girls of reproductive age, who are at greatest risk of death from the disease. Fatality can be as high as […]

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Rafah, southern Gaza: Displaced, pregnant, and living in a tent

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Maha* went to the hospital as her labor had just begun, only to be turned away because all delivery rooms were full. Discouraged, she returned to her makeshift tent, one of many in Rafah’s camps for internally displaced people, in the cold winter weather. Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, housed 300,000 Palestinians before the […]

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Gaza: With Nasser hospital out of commission, people in southern Gaza run out of healthcare options

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Amid ongoing heavy fighting and bombing in Khan Younis, south Gaza, Palestine/OPT, vital medical services have collapsed at Nasser hospital, currently the largest functioning health facility in the enclave. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) deplores a situation in which people have been left with no options to go for treatment in case of a […]

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MSF joins noma survivors in celebrating inclusion in WHO neglected tropical diseases list

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Three years into its campaign to have noma recognised as a neglected tropical disease (NTD), international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the decision by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), to include noma in the WHO’s official list of NTDs. Following a meeting in Geneva on […]

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Jenin: Staggering increase in Israeli attacks against civilians and healthcare

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In the dim light of a hospital room, Amin, 17, is lying on a bed after being shot in both legs by Israeli Forces on 19 November 2023, during a ground and air assault on Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. Prior to October 7th in 2023, Israeli Forces had killed 205 Palestinians […]

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