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Syria: People in Idlib race to flee airstrikes as safe area shrinks
18 February 2020 – In northwest Syria, airstrikes combined with a ground offensive conducted by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies have triggered a huge wave of displacement in the last opposition-held area in the country. With towns and camps west of Aleppo hit by shelling in recent days, roads are packed with cars and trucks as people flee towards a shrinking area of safety Article - 20 Feb 2020
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‘Tired of fleeing’: Nowhere left to run for Syrians seeking refuge from Idlib violence
A Syrian doctor’s testimony from a flashpoint town in the province Stories from the Frontline - 20 Feb 2020
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DRC's South Kivu: The sun that saves lives
In remote areas in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where patients often have to walk for hours through the bush to get to a hospital, many health centres struggle with a very basic issue: a lack of access to electricity. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been coping with this logistical challenge for decades, usually by using diesel generators. But in the DRC´s South Kivu province, MSF teams have taken advantage of technological advances to find a cheaper, more effective and more sustainable solution . Article - 19 Feb 2020
Measles
“This ward should not exist”: MSF tackles measles outbreak in Rohingya refugee camps
MSF is witnessing a significant escalation in measles cases, with increasing numbers of critical cases and preventable deaths in our facilities in Bangladesh. Stories from the Frontline - 19 Feb 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus
China: Médecins Sans Frontières response to COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak
Specialised medical protective equipment from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is on its way to Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital in the capital city of Hubei province, China, the epicentre of the current coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. Article - 17 Feb 2020![The road to Metuge is heavily damaged due to the cyclone and rains [MSF-SPAIN]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf270286_medium.jpg?itok=OcKFiV6R "The road to Metuge is heavily damaged due to the cyclone and rains [MSF-SPAIN]")
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Northern Mozambique: Invisible conflict, very real consequences
MSF has been providing healthcare in Cabo Delgado province, one of the poorest and most isolated regions of Mozambique since February 2019. Early activities were rapidly disrupted by Cyclone Kenneth and replaced with emergency response to displacement and cholera. Since then, MSF has been building up healthcare activities. Bruno Cardoso, MSF’s project coordinator, has just returned from Mozambique and tells us more about the situation and what MSF does there. Interview - 13 Feb 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
Malaria
Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo: Hundreds of thousands uprooted by conflict in desperate need of assistance
Over one million people have been displaced by violence in Ituri since December 2017. About 200.000 are currently living in dire conditions on displaced people sites, in makeshift shelters, lacking food, clean water and access to health care. Article - 10 Feb 2020
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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
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