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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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South Kivu: An endless flight
In the last two years, the unrest ravaging eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has forced many thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have found refuge on the other side of the border between North and South Kivu, where they share limited resources and land with equally vulnerable populations. Crisis Update - 28 Jan 2021
Neglected Diseases
Overcoming neglect: Finding ways to manage and control Neglected Tropical Diseases
Reports - 28 Jan 2021
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Press Release - 28 Jan 2021
No more neglected diseases, no more neglected patients
Patients with neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) need better access to diagnosis and to treatment that is safe and effective, said Médecins Sans Frontières in a new report today that calls for an improved global response to NTDs in order to prevent further deaths and disability.Press Release - 28 Jan 2021
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Extremely precarious living conditions for the displaced people of Bouar, Central African Republic
displaced people of Bouar are facing an unprecedented crisis and an effective and coordinated humanitarian response is urgently needed. Crisis Update - 26 Jan 2021
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Bangladesh: Rohingya communities at breaking point
Rohingya refugees are being pushed into increasingly desperate situations, where they have inadequate formal channels to meet their basic needs. Article - 22 Jan 2021
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Yemen: “These sanctions have to make clear that they do not apply to humanitarian aid”
The United States government has moved to designate Ansar Allah, the Yemeni group that controls Sana’a and much of the country, as a “foreign terrorist organisation”, meaning that sanctions will be applied to stop people and companies working with them or the institutions they control. Marc Schakal, MSF’s Program Manager for Yemen, here explains what the risks are for aid to Yemen – and the Yemeni people – if there is not a broad exemption allowing humanitarian work to continue under these sanctions. Crisis Update - 21 Jan 2021
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MSF emergency team responds to worrying health needs in Riang, South Sudan, with high rates of malaria
Médecins Sans Frontières is concerned about the situation in Riang, in Jonglei state, eastern South Sudan, where the health of communities is increasingly at risk. In January, an MSF emergency team flew into Riang and found remote communities struggling to access clean water, safe water storage, latrines and basic healthcare. Press Release - 19 Jan 2021
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Central African Republic: MSF teams ramp up support as violence escalates
The security and humanitarian situation is deteriorating rapidly in Central African Republic, according to reports by MSF teams, as clashes escalate between coalition armed groups and government forces supported by foreign troops, in violence linked to the electoral process. Article - 15 Jan 2021
Refugees, Migration and displacement