The number of people attending Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s services in Cox’s Bazar with scabies is the highest we have seen in three years. Cases of skin diseases in 2021 were more than double those of 2019, with 73,000 people treated, and infections are continuing to climb in 2022. Almost 90 percent of […]
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Zainab didn’t sleep well last night. The lights and the incessant beeping of the machines in the intensive care unit would keep anyone awake. But mainly she couldn’t sleep because she was worried about her one-year-old son, Takberullah. He also had a restless, irritable night as he was having trouble breathing until the doctor gave […]
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Paula Gil, President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Spain: “Today, March 17, 2022, The New York Times published an investigation into the killings of our colleagues María Hernández, Tedros Gebremariam, and Yohannes Halefom in Tigray, Ethiopia, on June 24, 2021. The story places responsibility for the killings on the Ethiopian National Defense Force […]
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Mimi and Paty were married in their home region of Maniema, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Now 42, Paty is an electromechanical engineer and video cameraman, while Mimi, 35, is a professor of Islamic theology who did her studies in Iran. After living through years of ethnic violence in Maniema, they finally made […]
On March 14-15, 2022, an MSF a surgical team provided mass casualty influx training and advice for the staff in Kyiv.
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Felipe Van Braak is one of the medical team leaders in MSF’s emergency team working in Poland and at Poland’s border with Ukraine.
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Marta Wnorowska is currently working on the Slovakian-Ukrainian border as a project coordinator with MSF.
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By Adam Houston, Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer for MSF Canada.
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By Adam Houston, Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer for MSF Canada.
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Tanatswa (20) is a vibrant peer educator for Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). She is a core member of the MSF Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH) project in the high-density suburb of Mbare, Harare in Zimbabwe. Growing up, Tanatswa had a passion to do something meaningful and life-changing in her community. She grew up in Mbare, […]
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