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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South Sudan: How malnutrition is dangerously feeding the TB/HIV pandemic
May 30, 2024In South Sudan, over seven million people are expected to face acute food insecurity or worse between now and July. Among them, patients who are infected with tuberculosis and HIV are highly impacted since the intensity of the treatment is...
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Gaza: Israel must end its campaign of death and destruction
May 29, 2024Jerusalem, Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, 28 May 2024 - As the United Nations Security Council meets today after Israel struck tent camps sheltering displaced people in designated “humanitarian zones” in southern Gaza, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls for an...
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Sudan: No Place Is Safe from Violent Fighting in El Fasher as Hospitals are Repeatedly Hit
May 28, 2024Hospitals hit and death toll soars as violent fighting engulfs El Fasher, Sudan, leaving nowhere safe in the city; MSF calls urgently for protection of civilians, health workers and health structures. El Fasher, Sudan, 27 May 2024 – The intense,...
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MSF denounces Israeli attack on camp sheltering displaced people in Rafah
May 28, 2024On the night of 26 May, 180 wounded and 28 dead were recorded at the Trauma Stabilization Point (TSP) we support in Tal al Sultan, Gaza, after airstrikes by Israeli forces hit a camp sheltering displaced people, in a designated...
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Survivors of sexual violence in the Darién Gap receive comprehensive care in Costa Rica
May 28, 2024Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), together with our local partner Cadena and in coordination with health authorities, expanded access to medical and psychological care services at facilities in the Southern Migration Station in Costa Rica.Every day, hundreds...
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