A mental health crisis is growing in the Dadaab refugee complex, where hundreds of thousands of Somalis have been stuck for decades now. A fatal mix of pent-up despair, anxiety and fear, combined with new uncertainties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, is forcing refugees to take extreme measures. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) […]
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Cervical cancer kills over 2,300 women in Malawi every year, or two thirds of those who become infected with it, despite it being an easily preventable disease. This grim reality is the result of issues with vaccination and screening, as well as limitations in the offer of treatment. Since 2018, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans […]
Marc Schakal, MSF Program Manager for Yemen, here explains what the risks are for aid to Yemen – and the Yemeni people – if there is not a broad exemption for humanitarian work to these sanctions.
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WHO will change its guidelines to recommend using partial doses of the yellow fever vaccine during emergencies as a result of new clinical trial data.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia after fighting broke out in early November 2020.
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Read More… from Tigray, Ethiopia: MSF provides medical assistance to vulnerable
After numerous offensives in recent weeks across the country, fighting took place on the outskirts of the capital, Bangui, on January 13. MSF teams in Bangui treated 12 people for violence-related injuries.
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Read More… from CAR: MSF teams ramp up support as violence escalates
“We are extremely worried refugees are arriving to a camp that lacks essential services and that their basic needs will not be met.”
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Read More… from Sudan: ‘New arrivals are exhausted and in a worse health condition’
Hano Yagoub, MSF’s acting emergency coordinator in Gedaref, Sudan, describes the situation in Um Rakuba camp, where 15,000 people are sheltering after fleeing violence in Ethiopia
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Read More… from Sudan: ‘Services for refugees need to increase, otherwise it will be a disaster’
MSF condemns a serious and violent obstruction of medical aid, and calls for respect of humanitarian and medical action and the civilian population.
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Read More… from Mali: A patient dies after an MSF ambulance is violently detained
This report is the second of the accountability reports MSF is producing on our COVID-19 response. Read also the first report, covering the period March – May 2020.
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Read More… from Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 2 – June to August 2020