As part of our commitment to reduce maternal mortality in the places where we work, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) offers safe abortion care at many of our projects. Providing this care can be challenging, and for the last several years MSF has made a global effort to address obstacles and scale up the […]
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By Michael Lawson, MSF Canada’s humanitarian affairs officer, and Léo Tremblay, a meteorologist with MSF’s Meteorological and Climate Assistance initiative South Sudan is no stranger to crises. More than eight million people in the country are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of displacement, food insecurity and exposure to violence, […]
After 10 days at sea and three days of waiting at the Catania port, finally all survivors on board of the Geo Barents could touch land in a safe place, away from the violence and suffering they fled in Libya. Italian authorities first allowed only the disembarkation of 357 people, leaving 215 on board, as […]
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In October 2020, we delivered a petition with more than 91,000 signatures to Canada’s Minister of Health, calling on the Canadian government to take immediate steps to ensure fair, affordable and equitable access to any medicines, vaccines or other health technologies developed with Canadian public funds, including in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WATCH THE RECAP The […]
Tens of thousands of people have sought safety in informal camps at Kanyaruchinya and the surrounding areas, ten kilometres north of Goma. They have fled the renewed fighting between the March 23 movement (M23) and the Congolese army in the region of Rutshuru. An urgent response from humanitarian actors is required to meet the […]
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) responds to urgent medical and humanitarian crises in more than 70 countries. Our teams are providing medical care to those who are experiencing the health impacts of the climate emergency, many of whom are the least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. MSF is […]
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The deaths of two boys while awaiting approval for emergency medical care are just two of many tragic cases featured in a new report by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that lays bare the cruelty of the long-term detainment of more than 50,000 people, the majority of whom are children, in Al-Hol, northeast […]
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Today, Nov. 2, the agreement on migration between the Italian and Libyan governments will automatically renew for three years. The EU-sponsored agreement has seen millions of dollars of financial and technical support given to the Libya Coast Guard, who have intercepted more than 100,000 people at sea since it was first signed in 2017, forcibly […]
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With hundreds of people from Somalia arriving each week in Kenya’s Dadaab Refugee Complex, living conditions in camps hosting over 233,000 refugees and thousands of new arrivals since January are worsening. Given the conditions in these overcrowded camps, there is a high risk of disease outbreaks, warns Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF urges […]
Since September 20, 2022, the day the Ebola epidemic was declared in Uganda, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working alongside the Ministry of Health to support medical care in the country. As of October 25, 95 patients were confirmed with Ebola and 28 people were reported to have died from the disease […]
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