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Ethiopia: People in rural Tigray hit by impact of crisis and humanitarian neglect
Many of Tigray’s six million people live in mountainous and rural areas where they are all but invisible to the outside world. While teams of aid workers have been deployed to the main cities of this northern Ethiopian region over recent months, aid is failing to reach more remote communities, where the impact of the conflict has often been severe. Many people have been unable to access healthcare and other basic services for the past six months and are still living in fear. Article - 4 May 2021
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Tigray Crisis: “We are suffering from a lack of medical care”
Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. Inside Tigray, most of the displaced people stay with the host community, while tens of thousands live in informal sites or are still hiding in the bush or the mountains. MSF is deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation of hundreds of thousands of people who have been deprived of medical care for months and have received little humanitarian assistance Crisis Update - 5 Mar 2021
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Ethiopia: “If seriously ill people can’t get to hospital, you can imagine the consequences”
Albert Viñas has been involved in almost 50 emergency responses with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) over 20 years. He has just returned from his sixth mission in Ethiopia, where his role was to prepare the way for medical teams to access areas of eastern and central Tigray and assist people affected by the current crisis. Since violence broke out in this northern Ethiopian region in early November, some 60,000 people have taken refuge in Sudan and hundreds of thousands have been displaced within Tigray. He describes what he found. Crisis Update - 29 Jan 2021
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Sudan: “Services for the refugees need to increase, otherwise it will be a disaster”
Hano Yagoub, MSF’s acting emergency coordinator in Gedaref, Sudan, describes the situation in Um Rakuba camp, where 15,000 people are sheltering after fleeing violence in Ethiopia Stories from the Frontline - 23 Dec 2020
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Ethiopia: “They saw soldiers and civilians coming in, wounded or dead”
Psychological support for MSF staff on the border with Tigray, Ethiopia Project Update - 19 Dec 2020
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Healthcare on donkeys, Darfur, Sudan
Nasteh Shukri Mahamud, nurse and medical team leader in Rokero, Central Darfur Project Update - 13 Oct 2020
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Kala Azar in Sudan: Ten years of treating a 'disease in hiding'
After ten years treating Kala Azar in the region, MSF handed over the to the ministry of health our kala azar medical activities in May 2020. During that time, MSF treated, and saved almost 7,000 patients1, keeping the mortality below 1% except during the initial peaks. Project Update - 15 Jun 2020
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Neglected Tropical Diseases: ‘Incredible progress has been made but there’s still a long way to go’
“I’m heartened at how much progress has been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases over the last few decades. There have been substantial advances in terms of coverage and innovations, compared to when MSF started treating patients 20 to 30 years ago. This is good news for the more than one billion people affected by NTDs, who are among the world’s poorest and most marginalized. Stories from the Frontline - 30 Jan 2020![A boy leads a donkey with water canisters from the berkit (rainwater collecting clay pond)[Photo:Susanne Doettling/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf293810_medium.jpg?itok=ipqLRvZb "A boy leads a donkey with water canisters from the berkit (rainwater collecting clay pond)[Photo:Susanne Doettling/MSF]")
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Doolo Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia Stories from the Frontline - 13 Dec 2019
Giving birth on the move
A Somali midwife working to tackle maternal deaths among nomad womenDoolo Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia Stories from the Frontline - 13 Dec 2019