Samos, Greece: Inauguration of new prison like camp

The new Multi-Purpose Reception & Identification Centre (MPRIC) on Samos island is an escalation of European migration policies aimed at deterring people from coming and punishing those who make it. Not only is it dangerous, but also harmful to people’s physical and mental wellbeing, as detailed in Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s recent report […]

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DRC: The health benefits of community engagement in the northeast

Angumu is a mountainous area in Ituri province, in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), near the Ugandan border. It is a remote place and reaching the communities that live there can be challenging. The few roads that run through the mountain forest are reminiscent of dried river beds, uneven and full of loose stones […]

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Libya: MSF returns to Detention Centres

Almost three months after suspending medical activities in two detention centres in Tripoli following a series of concerning incidents, Doctors Without Border/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has returned to work in these centres, to provide vital medical care for detained migrants and refugees. MSF has also resumed activities in a third detention centre, which it had […]

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Iraq: Tackling multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, one patient at a time

In the neighbourhood of Sadr City, in Baghdad, Iraq, Ihsan Ali sits with his four children in their home. The 44-year-old man is enjoying the company of his family after weeks of having to isolate from them. Ihsan has had tuberculosis (TB) couple of times before, but most recently he was diagnosed with a multidrug-resistant […]

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Northern Syria: Acute water crisis poses serious health risks

People are facing a desperate situation in northern Syria, as limited access to clean water over the past few months has reached breaking point. A decade of war has left water and sanitation infrastructure destroyed and neglected, and today over three million people, mostly displaced by the conflict, are suffering dire consequences. “Even when water […]

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Overcoming obstacles: Treating trauma in Kunduz

Fighting in the city of Kunduz in north-eastern Afghanistan ended on August 8, 2021. During the clashes, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) transformed its office space into a temporary trauma unit to treat the people wounded. That unit is now closed and on August 16, all patients were transferred to the nearly-finished Kunduz Trauma […]

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State of the European Union: more hollow promises about a global COVID-19 vaccine equity?

In her State of the European Union speech of September 15, 2021, EU Commission President Von der Leyen has yet again underlined the importance of global access to vaccines in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Does this mean the EU’s words will finally turn into deeds? Or is her speech just another empty promise? Since April […]

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Forced suspension of majority of MSF activities, amid enormous needs in Ethiopia

The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all activities in the Amhara, Gambella and Somali regions of Ethiopia, as well as in the west and northwest of Tigray region, to comply with a three-month suspension order from the Ethiopian Agency for Civil Society Organizations (ACSO) on July 30, 2021. […]

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