“About 85 per cent of the city is in ruins after Cyclone Mocha wreaked havoc here. All hut-like houses are destroyed. People who live in houses like these are in dire need of emergency aid since they have no place to stay,” says Daw Nu, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) community health worker […]
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More than 140,000 people, mostly South Sudanese women and children fleeing from Khartoum, have newly arrived in White Nile state since conflict broke out in Sudan and are now facing huge unmet needs for food, shelter, healthcare and water and sanitation in 10 camps that host around 387,000 people, according to the local authorities. Doctors […]
“Please don’t mind, Shanika,” my colleague Shirin prefaces, as do many Bangladeshis I have met before saying something that could be potentially offensive, “maybe they will forget about here.” “Here,” in this case, is the only primary health care centre with childbirth services in Camp 23, a relatively small displacement camp of 23,000 Rohingya refugees […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been mobilised urgently in the territory of Rutshuru, in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in response to an outbreak of suspected cases of cholera, particularly in the Binza and Rutshuru health zones. More than 1,500 patients have been treated since the beginning of […]
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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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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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In the town of Abyei, a contested area between South Sudan and Sudan, there is an electric atmosphere rivalling that of any World Cup match. This soccer field, however, serves as a witness to community engagement, woven into life by a team working with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Abdulrahman Khaleel was two months […]
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Rivers serve as roads and tropical rainforest stretches to the horizon in Delta Amacuro state, a vast area bordering the Atlantic Ocean in northeastern Venezuela. Largely inaccessible, this region is home to a large number of Indigenous communities who face significant challenges accessing healthcare. Adelia, an 18 year old, is 38 weeks pregnant but has […]
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Recent deal offering controlled generics access in limited countries does not go far enough as main patent expires in India today, opening door to more affordable generics. As Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) 20-year primary patent on the critical, lifesaving drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) drug bedaquiline expires in majority of countries including India today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins […]
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An outbreak of scabies, the skin disease, is affecting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya living in refugee camps in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, demanding an urgent response, says Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). To bring the outbreak under control, the response needs to be fast and comprehensive and include improvements to water, sanitation and […]