Like every morning, Dr. Ramah Essa arrives at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in the Al-Abbasi subdistrict in Kirkuk governorate, northern Iraq, to follow up on patients with chronic diseases. It’s around 8 a.m. and several patients are already waiting for him to arrive. He starts his day with an older woman […]
Read More… from Iraq: Bringing vital medical care closer to the people of Hawija district
Recently CE-certified, the Antibiogo application will be deployed as of this summer in several Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) laboratories. This innovative diagnostic tool, developed and tested by the MSF Foundation to meet the needs of LMIC (Low and Middle Income Countries) will eventually be available in the form of a free, offline […]
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Medical data and accounts from patients evacuated on Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s medical referral train show that the war in Ukraine is being conducted with an outrageous lack of care to distinguish and protect civilians. Over 40 percent of the war-wounded on the train have been elderly people and children with blast wounds, traumatic […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on safe countries such as European and North American states, among others, to offer protection to migrants currently trapped in Libya to urgently accelerate the evacuation of the most vulnerable people by strengthening existing mechanisms and opening alternative pathways for them to leave the country. Since the start […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is witnessing alarming indications of a deadly and escalating nutritional crisis in Ethiopia’s Afar region, requiring an urgent scale up of the humanitarian response. In Afar, hundreds of thousands of people have fled from recent conflict only to find themselves grappling alongside host communities with drought, hunger and staggering […]
Somalia and Somaliland are facing one of their worst droughts in decades, following four poor rainy seasons and a locust invasion that was sweeping across the Horn of Africa. Severe water shortages and dry pastures have decimated livestock, affecting the livelihoods of Somali pastoralist communities. As crops fail and food prices rise, the ability of […]
Read More… from Somalia and Somaliland: Drought intensifies health crisis
After 100 days of the war in Ukraine, our mental health teams across the country are raising the alarm on the worrying psychological symptoms they are seeing. […]
Read More… from Ukraine: 100 days of war take a significant toll on mental health
Since Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with District Health Authorities, launched activities in Niafounké in June 2021, teams have provided more than 1,100 children aged 0 to 15 with in-patient healthcare at the local referral health centre. In addition, more than 2,200 outpatient medical consultations have been carried out by community health teams for […]
Jessica had her first child at the age of 14. The second at 15. The third at 18, and then she had four more children before she turned 25. In total she has seven children. She lives in Tumeremo, a mining area in the state of Bolivar, in southeastern Venezuela. “My husband works in […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the inhumane treatment of migrants turned back from Algeria and Libya and calls for the respect of human dignity in border control. From January to May 2022, MSF recorded 14,196 migrants expelled from Algeria, including 6,749 non-Nigeriens. Some 139 of these migrants were women, and 30 were minors. […]
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