Written by Cristian Reynders, MSF Field Coordinator in Northwest Syria.
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Issue: Access to Healthcare
Tenosique, Mexico: MSF calls for new measures for migrants following detention centre fire
MSF calls for migrants in detention centres to be released and given access to proper medical care and protection following Tenosique detention centre fire.
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COVID-19 in France: Ensuring continued access to medical care for vulnerable people in Paris and the suburbs
Last week MSF teams began providing medical care to vulnerable people confined in emergency shelters or still living on the streets or in makeshift camps in Paris and the suburbs.
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Borno state: In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, malaria, malnutrition and water-borne diseases will not relent.
After more than a decade of armed conflict, outbreaks of severe malnutrition, malaria, measles and cholera, approximately 1.5 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Borno state now face the spectre of COVID-19. Many live in vastly overcrowded camps with poor water and sanitation facilities, limited supplies of hygiene essentials such as soap and water, […]
Italy: “A new approach to public health, the big change needed to fight COVID-19”
By Dr Claudia Lodesani, MSF Italy president and emergency coordinator for COVID-19.
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COVID-19 in Italy: Medical staff working beyond limits in Italian epicentre
In Italy, we are supporting three hospitals at the first epicentre of the outbreak in the North
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Idlib, Syria: MSF continues providing relief items and adapts response to COVID-19 threat
Tthe COVID-19 epidemic has become a huge challenge worldwide and in Syria.
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COVID-19: Inclusion of asylum seekers is more effective than closing borders
The US government’s decision to block asylum proceedings and close the US-Mexico border threatens the healthy and safety of thousands.
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COVID-19 in West Africa: Focus on the most vulnerable and learning from the past
Dr Dorian Job, MSF West Africa Program Manager in Dakar, provides an update on the situation and priorities at this stage.
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Iraq: Caring for burn patients in Qayyarah
In Iraq’s northern sub-district of Qayyarah, merely 60 kilometers south of Mosul the capital of Nineveh province, traces of a war subsided three years ago are still starkly evident. There, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the only hospital specialized in burns in Nineveh, a province still reeling from the shock of a ferocious war […]