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MSF India Newsletter
August 2020
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| The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown has touched everyone’s life and created and unprecedented impact on mental health.
The medical team at MSF’s COVID-19 treatment centre in Bihar have to constantly fight not just the disease but also patients’ fear, stigmatization and misinformation.
MSF’s counsellors and health educators are helping patients cope with the tremendous mental toll they have been experiencing.
In this video, Mental Health Activity Manager Pooja Iyer explains the importance of this part of MSF’s work.
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| On the frontline against COVID-19 |
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As coronavirus cases continue to surge across India, we talk to MSF workers and patients living and working at our COVID-19 treatment centre in Patna, Bihar. They explain the challenges, fears and hopes as the situation evolves in one of India’s most populated state.
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| Three years after the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees |
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August 25th marked three years since widespread, targeted violence by Myanmar’s military against the Rohingya population in Rakhine state. It resulted in over 700,000 people fleeing into Bangladesh. They joined hundreds of thousands of others in refugee camps around Cox’s Bazar who had fled previous waves of violence. Three years on, their lives remain on hold. There is still little hope of positive change, nor for their return home to Myanmar in a safe and dignified manner any time soon.
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Tuberculosis
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| Policies should ‘help facilitate access to life saving treatment & not create barriers'
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Lebanon
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| After the blast, MSF provides medical and mental health support to Beirut's most affected communities |
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Mediterranean migration
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| MSF resumes search and rescue operations with a new partner |
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Spain
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| MSF calls for urgent measures in care homes to prevent more deaths from COVID-19 |
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Doctors Without Borders India / Medecins Sans Frontieres
AISF Building, First floor
Amar Colony, Lajpat Nagar-IV
New Delhi-110024
www.msfindia.in
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