Yemen: The struggle to access antenatal care in Al Qanawis
Like most other women in her village, Fatima, 17, had no access to antenatal care during her pregnancy. She recently gave birth to her second child in...
Maternal health
Women’s health
War and conflict
Myanmar
Doctors Without Borders office in Yangon becomes makeshift clinic amid Myanmar's collapsing health system
The violence and intimidation committed by security forces in Myanmar is creating a climate of fear and disrupting HIV patients' access to life-saving...
War and conflict
HIV/AIDS
Palestine
Gaza: “Night and day, what we are living through is terrifying”
The fighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups, principally Hamas, broke out once again after weeks of tensions in occupied Ea...
War and conflict
Palestine
Doctors Without Borders treats hundreds of Palestinians injured by Israeli police in Jerusalem
On Monday 10 May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started supporting the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jerusalem t...
War and conflict
Mozambique
Opinion: Focus on fighting ‘terrorists’ ignores real humanitarian needs in Cabo Delgado
Since October 2017, the northern province of Mozambique, Cabo Delgado (CD) has been suffering violent attacks from a Non-State Armed Group. Over 2020,...
War and conflict
Afghanistan
One year after the attack on Dasht-e-Barchi maternity
On 12 May 2020, the maternity ward of the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, was attacked. Twenty-four people were killed, according to of...
War and conflict
Sudan
Sudan: MSF condemns attack on ambulance taking pregnant woman to hospital
In the early hours of Saturday 3 April, a clearly marked Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ambulance, travelling from Rokero to A...
War and conflict
Maternal health
Myanmar
Myanmar: Hope and solidarity in the midst of crisis
The sweet fragrance of jasmine flowers strung across the rearview mirror of a taxi I was in offered the only sense of familiarity in a country that ha...
War and conflict
Ethiopia
Ethiopia: “I turned around and started running and that is when I was shot”
A number of people were killed when soldiers travelling in several vehicles opened fire near the bus station in the town of Adwa, in Ethiopia’s Tigray...
