Migrating while managing diabetes: why access to insulin in pens must be available to everyone
November 14, 2024Diabetes ranks among the top 10 causes of death globally and affects over half a billion people worldwide. Over 80% of those affected live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).Insulin pens and newer diabetes medicines can simplify treatment and reduce...
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Lesvos: The struggle of healing in poor living conditions
October 11, 2024The MSF team on Lesvos island, Greece, conducted over 1,500 mental health consultations between January and August 2024. Our psychologists report that most patients suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and acute stress disorder. People’s symptoms include difficulty sleeping, flashbacks,...
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MSF: EU policies are killing people as they search for safety
July 8, 202330 June, 2023 – Following the shipwreck of 14 June which left up to 500 people dead or missing off the coast of Greece, international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounces EU migration policies and calls for...
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MSF concerned about pushbacks, arbitrary detention, and violence towards migrants in Lesbos, Greece
May 25, 2023Athens, Brussels, 25th May - The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) expresses its serious concerns on the continuous deterioration of the situation of migrants and refugees on the Greek Island of Lesbos, where there have...
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Greece: Negligent and dangerous COVID-19 response in Vathy camp, Samos
October 26, 2020Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging the Greek authorities to immediately scale up their response to COVID-19 in Vathy camp on Samos island and transfer people at high risk to safe accommodation on Greece’s mainland or in other...
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Migration crisis: Enough is enough: new pact, same misery for refugees
October 5, 2020Op-ed by Dr Christos Christou, International President, Médecins Sans Frontières This op-ed was first published in Geneva Solutions on 3 October 2020. When I visited Moria camp, Greece, last November, I was shocked by what I saw. I could barely believe the appalling conditions...
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Mediterranean migration: “Enough is enough”: Time to stop the cycle of suffering for refugees on Greek islands
September 18, 2020Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on the Greek and the EU authorities to stop their efforts to rebuild a new system of containment for refugees and asylum seekers on the island of Lesbos, Greece, and to break once and...
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Greece: All people in Moria camp must be evacuated to safety in wake of destructive fire
September 10, 2020Nearly 12,000 men, women and children have been forced to evacuate Moria refugee camp, on the island of Lesbos, Greece, after a fire tore through the camp during the night of 8 September. While the fire is not believed to have caused...
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Greece: MSF forced to close COVID-19 centre on Lesbos
July 30, 2020ATHENS – A COVID-19 isolation centre set up on the island of Lesbos, Greece, by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to close, after local authorities imposed fines with potential criminal charges, related to urban planning regulations. MSF strongly condemns the...
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Greece: Greek government must end lockdown for locked up people on Greek islands
July 16, 2020COVID-19-related lockdown measures have had an impact on the lives of everyone around the world and generated increasing levels of stress and anxiety for many of us. However, the restriction of movement imposed in places like Moria and Vathy, on...
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Greece: Vulnerable refugees evicted and left to sleep on streets
July 14, 2020Athens: An increasing number of refugees in Greece with severe health and mental health conditions are being threatened with eviction from their accommodation, cut off from cash assistance and left in the streets without access to shelter, protection or proper healthcare....
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Greece: Evacuation of squalid Greek camps more urgent than ever over COVID-19 fears
March 11, 2020ATHENS – The overcrowded and horrific living conditions in the camps - or hotspots - on the Greek islands provide the perfect storm for a COVID-19 outbreak, warned Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Given the lack of adequate sanitation services and...
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