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Extreme violence in Las Anod forces MSF to close activities

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reached the difficult decision to withdraw our services from Las Anod General Hospital, Sool region, located within the internationally-recognized borders of Somalia,* due to increased volatility and repeated security incidents which have impacted the safe delivery of medical care.   Recurrent attacks on medical facilities and the level of […]

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Khartoum: Aid in jeopardy as MSF staff face beatings, death threats and theft

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On the afternoon of July 20, four MSF staff as well as four truck drivers and a team of 10 daily workers were stopped by a group of armed men while transporting medical supplies to the Turkish Hospital in southern Khartoum, where MSF provides health care. After arguing about the reasons for MSF’s presence, the […]

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Flash Quote: Bangladesh Scabies Follow-up

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Nearly 40 percent of people in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh have scabies according to the results of a prevalence survey conducted by the health sector in May. In some camps this figure is as high as 70 percent. This reflects what Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen in our clinics where we’ve conducted […]

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