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Asylum seeker dies in Libya’s detention centre fire.
2 March, 2020 – Yefren, Libya. During the night of Saturday 29 February to Sunday 1 March, a fire broke out in Dhar el Jebel detention centre, where over 500 refugees and migrants are arbitrarily detained south of Tripoli in the Nafusa Mountains in Libya. A 26 years old Eritrean man tragically lost his life as he got caught up in the flames while sleeping in one of the overcrowded cells of the detention centre. Press Release - 3 Mar 2020
Mental Health
No Way Out: Doctors Without Borders Report Shows Damaging Health Impacts of US-Mexico Migration Policies
Mexico City/New York, NY, February 11, 2020—New migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico are trapping many Central Americans in dangerous conditions, with severe consequences for their physical and mental health, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a report released today. Article - 10 Feb 2020
Access to Healthcare
Liberia: A growing cohort of epilepsy patients shows how life-changing treatment is possible
One of the world's most common neurological diseases, epilepsy affects nearly 50 million people, but in low-income countries more than 75 percent of people with epilepsy do not have access to treatment, according to World Health Organization figures. In Liberia, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works in collaboration with five local health facilities to treat more than 1,300 epilepsy patients. Ahead of International Epilepsy Day, February 10, Emmanuel Ballah, an MSF mental health and epilepsy supervisor in Monrovia, Liberia, describes the challenges that people face with epilepsy and how MSF is working with families, communities and health facilities to treat these patients: Stories from the Frontline - 6 Feb 2020
HIV/AIDS
Four things you need to know about South Sudanese refugees in Sudan
In December 2019, MSF opened a new 85-bed hospital in White Nile state, Sudan, upgrading the existing services in order to strengthen the quality of healthcare provided to South Sudanese refugees and the local community. The hospital, in Al Kashafa refugee camp, provides primary and secondary healthcare for patients with complicated conditions, including severely malnourished children and people with chronic infectious diseases, such as HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Article - 4 Feb 2020
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New MSF hospital in White Nile state to strengthen the quality of healthcare provided to refugees and local community
Khartoum/Al Kashafa, 23 January 2020 – Today, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) inaugurates a new hospital in Al Kashafa refugee camp, White Nile state, Sudan. The hospital will strengthen the quality of healthcare being provided to South Sudanese refugees and the local community. Press Release - 24 Jan 2020![Kingsley Makwale MSF clinician examining Aisha at Mbenje Health Centre [Photo: Isabel Corthier/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf295979_medium.jpg?itok=0kQyQ5hG "Kingsley Makwale MSF clinician examining Aisha at Mbenje Health Centre [Photo: Isabel Corthier/MSF]")
HIV/AIDS
“No time to lose”: AIDS deaths toll stagnating due to lack of basic testing at community level
A 15-country snapshot report on progress in the fight against advanced HIV Press Release - 2 Dec 2019
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Refugees in Dadaab appeal for Dignity Article - 18 Nov 2019
![Kidnapping of migrants has been for a while now a lucrative business for the criminal gangs operating in the Mexican northern cities bordering the US. [photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf236305_medium.jpg?itok=F0qSKZPf "Kidnapping of migrants has been for a while now a lucrative business for the criminal gangs operating in the Mexican northern cities bordering the US. [photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi]")
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Press Release - 30 Oct 2019
Increase in kidnappings and extreme violence against migrants on the southern border of Mexico
The policies of criminalisation, persecution, detention and deportation applied in Mexico in order to contain migratory flows to the northern border with the US have forced the migrant population to go underground and take increasingly dangerous routes where they are more vulnerable to criminal gangs and violence during their journey through Mexico.Press Release - 30 Oct 2019