In recent weeks, tens of thousands of displaced people have arrived in cities in the conflict-hit region of Tigray, northern Ethiopia.
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Uzbekistan: Lockdown kickstarts treatment by video link for TB patients
Nineteen-year-old Kundyz, from Karakalpakstan, in northwest Uzbekistan, has been on treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) for more than eight months. Initially treated in hospital, she later switched to taking her medication at home in the company of a nurse – a method known as directly observed treatment, or DOT. Taking multiple drugs, many with unpleasant […]
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Yemen: MSF calls on international actors to increase support to the COVID-19 response as a second wave overwhelms medical facilities
MSF is seeing a dramatic influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in Aden and many other parts of the country.
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Governments must demand pharma make all COVID-19 vaccine licensing deals public
Terms of a deal disclosed show that we cannot rely on pharma’s goodwill to do the right thing, even in a pandemic.
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Bangladesh: Between a rock and a hard place – Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar
There are currently around 860,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Most of them live in Cox’s Bazar district. The activities which Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) carries out for these refugees are centralized around the so-called ‘mega camp’, a large collection of 26 camps. In recent years, barbed and razor wire fencing was erected. The living […]
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Health facilities targeted in Tigray
Health facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to MSF.
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Pulka, Borno state: Water is the source of life and disease
“We have to be grateful that we now have water, but we don’t usually have enough water when we enter the dry and hot season,” says Adama. She was forced from her home by the violence that has spread throughout Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. Adama now lives in a camp for displaced people in […]
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Small things can save lives: coping with COVID-19 in resource-scarce hospitals
by Dr. Gilles van Cutsem, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Senior HIV/TB adviser and international HIV/AIDS working group lead.
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Yemen: Health needs grow in former safe haven of Marib
Dotted across Marib governorate, in northeast Yemen, are 134 camps – temporary home to Yemenis displaced from their homes by the six-year-long conflict, African migrants stranded in Yemen, and members of a vulnerable minority group from Yemen known as Al-Muhamasheen. Before the start of the conflict, Marib was home to almost 400,000 people, according to […]
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Tigray Crisis: “We are suffering from a lack of medical care”
Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people.
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