Doctors Without Borders

Not another migration ‘crisis’: EU leaders continue to push through deadly policies

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More people than ever recorded are currently forcibly displaced from their homes by conflict, human rights violations, climate change, and the economic consequences resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Across Europe, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to witness people fleeing crisis being left to drown at sea, intercepted and pushed back at borders, denied … Read more

El Geneina Teaching Hospital, West Darfur: 5 key points on the recent violence and humanitarian needs

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The looting of El Geneina Teaching Hospital, which is supported by Médecins Sans Frontières-Doctors Without Borders (MSF) since 2021, made headlines in the last week of April. Reports suggest that widespread looting, destruction, and burning of property took place in El Geneina city, the capital of West Darfur, including at sites where displaced people reside. … Read more

“Title 42 ends, but migration crisis continues in Mexico and Central America,” says Doctors Without Borders

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On May 11, when the Biden administration ends the COVID-19 public health emergency nationally, Title 42, a public health order used to shut down asylum at the US southern border for more than three years, officially comes to an end. Invoked by the Trump administration in 2020 and repeatedly extended by the Biden administration, Title … Read more

International Nurses Day 2023: Spotlight on intensive care nurses

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More than 10,000 nurses are providing healthcare in Médecins Sans Frontières’ humanitarian programmes worldwide—the largest single professional representation in MSF. To mark International Nurses’ Day on May 12 and celebrate our diverse nursing staff, MSF highlights the sometimes underestimated contribution of nurses in our intensive care units (ICUs), treating severely sick patients who may otherwise … Read more

Access to point-of-care tests for people with advanced HIV under threat as diagnostics corporations to stop production

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MSF calls on US based corporations Abbott and BD to ensure adequate supply of CD4 tests and equipment. Geneva, 11 May 2023 – In a new report released today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that access to point-of-care CD4 testing for HIV is under threat because US diagnostics corporations Abbott Laboratories (Abbott) and … Read more

Kiribati: The remote island nation facing a triple threat to health

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Kiribati is one of the most remote and geographically dispersed countries in the world. It is also one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of the climate crisis. The country faces has described as a triple threat to health: communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and the health impacts of climate change. Climate and … Read more

“We came to Sudan seeking safety, but now we are trapped in another conflict that makes it even harder to cope and survive.”

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“We came to Sudan seeking safety, but now we are trapped in another conflict that makes it even harder to cope and survive.”- Refugees in Um Rakuba camp. Fighting erupted in Sudan on April 15, affecting Khartoum and other states leaving many in life-threating situations. Amidst the violence, MSF has decided to stay in Sudan … Read more

DRC: MSF treating alarming numbers of victims of sexual violence in displacement camps around Goma

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In just two weeks, more than 670 victims of sexual violence have been treated by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams in camps for displaced people around Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, representing 48 new victims per day. These shocking figures reflect the extreme vulnerability and risk of violence faced by displaced … Read more

Haiti: MSF mobile clinics in Port-au-Prince treat people stranded by violence

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Diana Manilla (MSF Project Coordinator) briefs the team before starting the mobile clinic activities at the MSF office. ©Alexandre Marcou Vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince are caught in a spiral of ongoing violence and insecurity, living under the threat of stray bullets and kidnappings as well as economic precarity. Médecins sans Frontières/ Doctors … Read more

Djibo: Life Under Blockade

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Burkina Faso is experiencing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has seen 1.99 million internally displaced people flee violence perpetrated by jihadist groups (OCHA, 31 March 2023). The northern town of Djibo has now been under blockade by non-state armed groups for over a year and remains largely cut off from food and aid. The movement … Read more