The extreme escalation of conflict, indiscriminate violence, and severe restrictions on humanitarian access in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have forced Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its medical humanitarian activities in the townships of Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw. MSF ran 14 mobile clinics in northern Rakhine providing essential medical services to all communities, [...]Read More... from Myanmar: MSF suspends its medical activities in northe...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In August 2017, a coordinated campaign of violence by the Myanmar military against members of that country’s Rohingya ethnic minority drove hundreds of thousands of people to flee across Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in search of safety. [...]Read More... from The Rohingya Displacement Crisis| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
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MSF launches a large-scale hepatitis C “test and treat” campaign in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to address high infection rates in Rohingya refugee camps. The initiative aims to provide care for 30,000 people by 2026, improving access to vital treatment for a stateless people facing critical healthcare shortages.| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Since the beginning of the year Rohingya refugees have been arriving in Bangladesh after escaping escalating violence in Myanmar. They now face immense challenges, including overcrowding, lack of access to essential services and deteriorating mental health conditions. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging the relevant authorities to ensure unhindered and immediate access to [...]Read More... from MSF calls for unhindered humanitarian assistance for all Rohingya re...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a 20-bed cholera treatment unit (CTU) at the Renk Civil Hospital in South Sudan, in response to a cholera outbreak declared by the Ministry of Health on Oct. 28. We call on all organizations in Upper Nile State to help prevent the spread of the disease [...]Read More... from South Sudan: Urgent action needed to address growing cholera outbreak| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Do you remember me? I am Dr. Mohamed Bashir, MSF’s former deputy medical coordinator in Sudan. I once wrote a reflection, Alleviating suffering in the face of war, in which I shared my firsthand experience of the civil war – not only as a medical humanitarian but as a Sudanese person. I’m still with MSF, [...]Read More... from Alleviating suffering in the face of war – Part 2| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
An alarming number of children suffering from severe malaria have been admitted to the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported Aweil State Hospital in Northern Bahr el Ghazal (NBeG) state, South Sudan, over the past three months. Malaria admissions to the children’s ward began to increase in June and, by September, up to 400 children [...]Read More... from South Sudan: Alarming spike in childhood malaria admissions at MSF-supported Aweil State Hospital| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
