Water and sanitation in northwest Syria: the invisible health threats to displaced people
June 18, 2023Jindires, a once-magnificent city located in northwest Syria, near the Turkish border, has been reduced to rubble, bearing the scars of both a relentless war and a recent earthquake. In northwest Syria, nine out of 10 people who were newly...
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Over 600 war-wounded Sudanese arrive in Adré hospital in eastern Chad in the space of just three days
June 16, 2023June 16, 2023 - As violence rages in West Darfur, wounded people are coming in waves to Adré hospital in Chad, where they are being treated by MSF and Ministry of Health teams. At least 242 wounded were received on...
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Exceptional number of war surgeries show suffering in Khartoum
June 15, 2023Today marks two months since heavy fighting broke out in Khartoum and rapidly spread to other areas of Sudan. MSF’s surgical team working in Bashair Teaching Hospital in Khartoum sees the suffering caused by this conflict every day. In five...
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License for violence: unrestrained settlers bring unprecedented hardships for Palestinians
June 15, 2023As Israeli settlements grow throughout the West Bank, incidents involving settlers are at an all-time high. With Israeli forces failing to prevent violence and sometimes enabling it, Palestinians are more exposed to brutality than ever. In areas of heavy settler...
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Renewed conflict in Khartoum brings new influx of displaced people to Wad Madani
June 14, 2023Wad Madani/Brussels – Heavy fighting resumed in Sudan’s capital after the end of the most recent ceasefire this week. MSF teams in Wad Madani have seen a worrying increase in the number of people arriving from Khartoum. Around 5,000 people...
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No Time to Wait to Protect Vulnerable Lives in Sudan
June 13, 2023By Stephen Cornish, The General Director of MSF Switzerland If you think the events in Sudan right now are an emergency without warning, think again. The current conflict is instead an acute symptom of a crisis that has plagued the country for...
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MSF calls on Gavi to step up efforts to improve vaccine access for children up to at least five years old
June 12, 2023Geneva, 12 June 2023 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today again urged Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to urgently prioritise reaching ‘zero-dose’* and under-immunised children up to age five, by removing barriers to broadening vaccine coverage for unprotected children,...
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Refugees in eastern Chad may become ‘trapped’ and ‘forgotten’ with onset of the rainy season
June 10, 2023N’djamena, Chad, 9 June 2023 - Thousands of people amassed at Chad’s eastern border in Sila region and other border areas – seeking refuge from a raging conflict in neighbouring Sudan - are at risk of losing access to vital...
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CAR: “Everyone arrives exhausted from Sudan, and many children are ill”
June 9, 2023In recent weeks, thousands of people fleeing the conflict in Sudan have sought refuge in northern Central African Republic (CAR). Issa Moussa, deputy head of mission for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is coordinating MSF’s emergency response in Birao. Moussa...
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Bangladesh: Scabies in Rohingya refugee camps
June 7, 2023Ali, an MSF community-based health promotion volunteer raises awareness on scabies in the clinic’s waiting area. 1 June 2023, Jamtoli Clinic, Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. ©Olivier Malvoisin Nearly 40 percent of people in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh have...
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Chad: MSF teams received more than 70 wounded in Adré and are extending activities in response to the conflict in Sudan
June 2, 20232 June, 2023 - A total of 72 wounded people from Sudan have been treated at the hospital in Adré, eastern Chad, by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in partnership with the local health authorities. This is as a result of...
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MSF starts handing over its Emergency Interventions in Türkiye
June 2, 2023As of 31 May, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will hand over its intervention activities in Türkiye, as the emergency response ends, following the devastating earthquakes that killed 51,000 people in the country's southeast. After the first quake struck on...
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