An alarming jump in the number of patients with hepatitis E and acute watery diarrhea has been seen in the camp for internal displaced persons (IDP) in Bentiu, South Sudan. The situation is critical with two deaths already registered within a month since end July, alerted the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans […]
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An Open Letter to the Leaders of Canada’s Federal Parties
As Canadians prepare to vote in this year’s federal election, I am writing on behalf of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to remind you that, upon taking office, Canada’s next government will need to respond immediately to a wide range of global emergencies, including disease epidemics, natural disasters, armed conflicts, and the humanitarian impacts of climate change. As […]
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Treating child injuries in blockaded Gaza
In the Al-Awda hospital paediatric unit in northern Gaza, Mohammed Aboud, a father of five, comforts his four-year-old daughter Hala as she slowly wakes up after her surgery. The scene is all too familiar to Mohammed now. Over the last few weeks, Hala has already been operated on five times. On 14 July 2021, Mohammed […]
Lifesaving TB medicines must be affordable and available to make all-oral treatments for children a reality
Paediatric formulations of bedaquiline and delamanid are still out of reach.
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Lebanon: Healthcare System disintegrates as political vacuum persist
Dwindling supplies of fuel and medicine mean that Lebanon’s healthcare system is rapidly disintegrating as the country – which has been without a government for a year now – grapples with one of the worst economic crises in the world. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are directly experiencing the consequences of the system’s […]
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Colombia: Humanitarian crisis grows in Telembi Triangle region as armed groups fight for control
More than 21,000 people have been displaced from their homes since start of 2021. A humanitarian crisis is mounting in the Telembí Triangle area of southern Colombia, close to the border with Ecuador, as violence flares between armed groups fighting for control of the territory. Since a peace agreement was signed in Colombia in 2016, […]
Yemen: Seeking healthcare in a city split by a frontline
“The constant fear and the feeling of being close to death is horrific. We have been bombarded with shells. A shell once hit my sister and injured one of her eyes.”
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Haiti: A multitude of challenges for patients after the earthquake
More than a week after an earthquake destroyed his home and fractured the bones of his leg, Widnika, age 2 years and 7 months, sleeps in a bed at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince as his mother Widline sits with him. The 7.2 magnitude quake began at 8:29 a.m. local […]
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Haiti earthquake: Getting help to people injured and displaced by the disaster
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing to respond to the earthquake that shook Haiti this weekend and provide medical care to people who have been injured. The magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the southern region of Haiti on Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 8:30 am local time. Our teams are on the ground providing help in the provinces […]
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Haiti: Earthquake survivors need care in the south
Xavier Kernizan is an orthopedic surgeon who normally works at MSF’s Tabarre hospital in Port-au-Prince. Since the August 14 earthquake, he has been working with an MSF surgical team in Jérémie.
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