Mental health crisis unfolds at RAF Wethersfield Mass Containment Site in the United Kingdom: Doctors of the World and MSF call for urgent site closure
June 10, 2024Doctors of the World (DOTW) and Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are issuing an urgent call to the UK Government to close RAF Wethersfield, a former RAF barracks turned mass asylum containment site, due to severe mental...
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Yemen: Addressing acute watery diarrhoea
June 7, 2024Twenty out of Yemen’s 22 governorates have seen a surge in the number of people with acute watery diarrhoea, as more than 63,000 cases have been reported in the country as of 31 May, according to health authorities. Despite the...
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Urgent call for Europe to improve treatment access for tuberculosis: Many TB medicines and formulations accessible in lower- and middle-income countries remain unaffordable or unavailable in Europe
June 7, 2024Berlin, 6 June 2024: As the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded a meeting with European health officials and civil society to improve access to tuberculosis (TB) medicines in the European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA), Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders...
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Marking 40 years of humanitarian medical action in Mozambique: Médecins Sans Frontières hosts panel discussion in Maputo
June 7, 2024Maputo, Mozambique – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will tomorrow host a panel discussion to reflect on its medical and humanitarian work for the past 40 years in Mozambique and discuss its challenges. Since 1984, MSF has been collaborating...
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Need knows no difference between refugees and Sudanese host communities: This is Um Rakuba
June 5, 2024Imagine the scene: a busy refugee camp in El Gedaref state, on the edge of eastern Sudan, close to the Ethiopian border. This is Um Rakuba, where people in desperate need of medical care wait patiently for their turn at...
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Tapping into solar energy to power emergency response: MSF logisticians are testing ways to supply energy for medical activities in places with unreliable electricity
June 5, 2024Emergency medical response often relies on electricity, yet this crucial resource can be difficult to access in insecure settings. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been trying to find sustainable solutions to this obstacle.In places where there is no...
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MSF responds to the outcomes of PPR negotiations at WHA77
June 5, 2024Geneva, 4 June 2024 - In concluding the 77th World Health Assembly, World Health Organization (WHO) member states adopted a set of historic amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), which establishes the definition of a ‘pandemic emergency’; includes several...
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Record Admissions of Severely Malnourished Children Overwhelm MSF Medical Facilities in Northern Nigeria
June 5, 2024Abuja, 4 June 2024: In recent weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) inpatient facilities in northern Nigeria have recorded an extraordinary increase in admissions of severely malnourished children with life-threatening complications, with two times more admissions than last year in some...
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Gavi’s next strategy must make sure to reach the 10 million children in fragile and humanitarian settings who are missing vaccines
June 4, 2024Where are we now? This week, on 6-7 June 2024, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is meeting in Geneva to approve and endorse the one-page framework for Gavi 6.0, which outlines its strategy for the five-year period from...
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GAZA: New crossing points and ‘floating dock’ are cosmetic changes, as humanitarian access disintegrates in Gaza, warn aid agencies
June 3, 2024Jerusalem, 28 May 2024 – As Israeli attacks intensify on Rafah, the unpredictable trickle of aid into Gaza has created a mirage of improved access while the humanitarian response is in reality on the verge of collapse, warn 20 aid agencies....
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“We have lost everything, but I am very strong”: MSF works in shelter with vulnerable victims of disastrous floods in the south of Brazil
June 3, 2024A boy named Joaquim runs restlessly among toys spread on the classroom’s floor. There are colorful posters displayed on the walls, but it’s not a class day, and Joaquim is not a student here, either. Desks in this classroom in...
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New Bill Proposed by Israel’s Parliament Threatens to Obstruct Humanitarian Aid in Gaza
May 31, 2024On 29 May, a bill aimed at designating UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, as a terrorist organisation passed a preliminary reading prior to three further readings in Israel’s Parliament, known...
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