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‘Like the end of the world’: Thousands caught in crossfire of invisible conflict in Northern Mozambique
The number of displaced people is growing in Cabo Delgado. In February, at least 200,000 people were displaced due to the conflict. Since, numerous attacks on villages across the region have uprooted thousands more from their homes. Armed groups are waging attacks in this complex, resource rich region. Today, the north of Mozambique is the epicenter […]
Intense fighting in eastern South Sudan, forces thousands of people to flee
Thousands of people have fled into the bush in the Greater Pibor Administrative area in eastern South Sudan as intense fighting over several days yet again threatens the lives of entire communities, warns the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The new and brutal rise in intercommunal clashes has led MSF […]
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Ahead of Gavi Board meeting, MSF calls on Gavi to revise its global mechanism and demand pharma sell all COVID-19 vaccines at cost
The Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance will meet this week on June 24-25.
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Mexico: MSF supports migrants and homeless people at risk of COVID-19
The MSF team is visiting shelters, hostels, hotels and community kitchens to provide medical care and psychological support and to offer advice and practical help on preventive measures, aimed at the people using these facilities as well as the staff and volunteers who run them.
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Bihar, India: MSF opens 100-bed COVID-19 treatment centre
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases continues to rise in India, MSF opened a 100-bed temporary treatment centre for COVID-19 patients in Patna, the capital of Bihar state in the northeast of the country.
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Proactive COVID-19 healthcare efforts support people in need in Matamoros, Mexico
Gweneth Thirlwell is working with MSF’s COVID-19 response team in Matamoros, in northwestern Mexico.
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“As midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country.”
Written by MSF midwife supervisor Zahra Koochizad who was working in Dasht-e-Barchi maternity ward on the day of the attack.
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MSF wants Trudeau to commit to fair access to COVID-19 vaccines
An interview with Jason Nickerson, MSF Humanitarian Affairs Advisor.
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‘We have lost everything’: El Salvador hit by tropical storm Amanda as it continues to battle COVID-19
Before they lost their belongings during the storm, people already faced the economic and social consequences of complying with the quarantine imposed by the Salvadoran government to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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