Medical care is just one of the many urgent needs faced by people in crisis, who also frequently lack access to food, shelter, clean water and protection from violence. The United Nations estimates that nearly 340 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in 2023, an increase of almost 60 million over the previous […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continually calls on governments, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and others to place lives before profits and commit to making essential medicines available and accessible to the patients around the world who need them most. As a humanitarian medical organization driven by the belief that everyone should have access to essential […]
“The minute I was alone, they would have raped me.” Adanya, 34 years old, from Cameroon. “In Libya, I was sleeping under trucks and buses as I did not have any money.” Afia, 24 years old, from Ghana. “I know if I tell my mother I am in Libya, she will be crying every […]
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Persecution has long driven people to seek asylum far from home, as is the case for a small community of transgender women who have, over time, fled Cuba for the safety of Greece. Although the women are safer now, they still struggle to access healthcare in their new locations. “Most of the trans who […]
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Alicia de la Rosa is a psychologist specializing in animal-assisted psychotherapy. De la Rosa works alongside Onnie, a 4-year-old Labrador Retriever, to provide mental health support to victims of torture and extreme violence at the Comprehensive Care Center in Mexico City. The center has been managed by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without […]
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The feeling of déjà vu is so strong when crafting a post for World Tuberculosis (TB) Day in 2023 that we are reposting the World TB Day 2022 post in its entirety below. One bright spot over the past year is that our knowledge of how to treat TB using tools that already exist has […]
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Today, the Canadian government introduced amendments to the Criminal Code provisions that have been standing in the way of Canadian humanitarian organizations providing crucial humanitarian assistance to people affected by emergencies. Despite finally acknowledging that Canadian laws can inadvertently criminalize impartial humanitarian workers, these amendments unfortunately create new bureaucratic hurdles for organizations to overcome. […]
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Faced with unsustainable security risks, international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been forced to close its hospital in the Cité Soleil area of the Haitian capital as a temporary measure. Violence has been spreading throughout Port-au-Prince since 28 February, leaving those caught in the crossfire with no choice but to […]
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At midnight on Thursday, a Russian missile struck a five-story residential building in Zaporizhzhia city, in Zaporizhzhia oblast (province), southeastern Ukraine. The building housed approximately 300 people in 70 apartments. In collaboration with local authorities, emergency teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are at the scene of the attack to provide psychological first […]
On Feb. 28, the hospital Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières supports in Las Anod was hit during indiscriminate fighting for a fourth time in three weeks. This time it caused partial damage to the structure and brought a stop to activities in the pediatrics ward and blood bank. Since the fighting started at the beginning of […]
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