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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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A Crisis is Unfolding in Mozambique : Half a million people who have fled violence now struggle to find housing, food and water
By Caroline Gaudron, MSF Strategic Support to Mozambique Stories from the Frontline - 4 Jan 2021
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Five people, five reasons we need to overcome monopolies on medicines
Five people, five reasons why we need governments to back this key waiver on patents and monopolies for COVID-19 medical tools during the pandemic. Stories from the Frontline - 16 Dec 2020![Ntezimana Fidès [© MSF/Alawiya Mohammed]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msb29377_medium.jpg?itok=zUqHV1vZ "Ntezimana Fidès [© MSF/Alawiya Mohammed]")
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“My journey as a refugee has helped me find my purpose in life”
Ntezimana Fidès, from Burundi, works for Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Nduta refugee camp, northwestern Tanzania, where she provides support to pregnant women with HIV, who often face stigma, even from their own husbands. She outlines how her work has changed with COVID-19 and describes the joy of being able to help her community. Stories from the Frontline - 26 Nov 2020
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The journey to reversing the HIV curve: Ndihwa sub-county, Kenya
Videos and Photos - 23 Nov 2020
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