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Responding to emergencies amid the conflict in CAR
Since late December, the situation in Central African Republic (CAR) has quickly worsened, as clashes between a coalition of non-state armed groups and government forces supported by foreign troops, which began amid contested elections, have escalated. In response, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have deployed emergency teams across the country to assist people affected by the violence who live in constant fear of attack by all sides. This is what our teams found in Bossembélé, Grimari and Ippy, three areas hit by the conflict Article - 12 May 2021
Internally Displaced People
MSF Crisis Info: Cabo Delgado
The recent attacks in Palma are illustrative of the violence that the population has been exposed to during the conflict in Cabo Delgado, which has been increasing in intensity and spreading over the last year.
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Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 3
September to December 2020 Reports - 5 May 2021
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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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CAR: Healing the visible and invisible wounds of sexual violence
Sexual violence has become a public health issue in Central African Republic (CAR) over the past decade, with women and minors being the most affected groups. In a country marked by years of civil war and facing a long-term crisis, assaults are perpetrated not just by members of armed groups; often the assault is committed by someone known to the victim. While access to medical and psychological care has improved over the years, the response remains insufficient compared to the scale of the needs. Project Update - 13 Apr 2021
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Project Update - 8 Apr 2021
Five years of providing general healthcare in Nduta refugee camp
Since 2016, Médecins Sans Frontières has been providing health care in the Nduta refugee camp in Tanzania. Teams provide comprehensive health care including general consultation, sexual and reproductive health, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, mental health counselling, health promotion and education as well as referrals from primary to secondary healthcare.Project Update - 8 Apr 2021
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Kenya: Impending stockout of HIV medicines in Homa Bay puts many lives at risk
For the more than 114,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV) currently on treatment in Homa Bay County, impending stockouts risk forcing many to interrupt their treatment, wiping away recent gains in suppressing the deadly infection. Press Release - 24 Mar 2021
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Health facilities targeted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
MSF is deeply concerned by the scale of deliberate attacks on health facilities that our teams routinely witness across Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Health centers appear to have been deliberately vandalized to render them non-functional. Crisis Update - 15 Mar 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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