Some communities in Hebron ‘Area C’ face challenges accessing basic healthcare due to administrative restrictions and lack of transportation. Women are particularly affected.
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One person was killed and two were injured in the early hours of April 8 after a shooting took place in a Tripoli detention centre where refugees and migrants are held. Two teenagers aged 17 and 18 with gunshot wounds were transferred for urgent medical care by a team from international medical organization Doctors Without […]
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In the early hours of Saturday, April 3, a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance, travelling from Rokero to Al-Fasher Hospital in Sudan was carjacked. The passengers, which included a pregnant woman being referred to hospital for emergency treatment, had all their belongings stolen and were left by the roadside in a […]
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The MSF surgical team in Bambari hospital and colleagues in the Ministry of Health treated a total of 36 war-wounded patients at Bambari Regional Hospital.
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Read More… from CAR: Women, children wounded and medical centre hit by violent clashes in Bambari
It’s time for Big Pharma to do the right thing
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Read More… from The COVID-19 vaccine is the People’s Vaccine
MSF started vaccinating elderly people and medical personnel in nursing homes against COVID-19 in March 2021.
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By Omar Ebeid, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Project Coordinator working in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Read More… from “Only vaccination will end the savage progress of COVID-19 in Iraq”
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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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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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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