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Bangladesh

World Health Day: Challenges to women’s access to healthcare in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, women face many barriers in their access to healthcare. For Rohingya women, movements within the camps is restricted, especially at nig...

Access to medicines

Women’s health

Myanmar

Myanmar: I have defeated TB and I wish the same for other patients

“I was sick, and the cough didn't go away, even after I got better. I was diagnosed with drug-sensitive tuberculosis (DSTB), and I took medication for...

Tuberculosis (TB)

Philippines

‘Time for Five’ coalition launches global petition targeting medical test maker Cepheid and parent corporation Danaher

Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)and partners to protest outside Danaher in Washington, DC, demanding price drop to $5 per test....

Tuberculosis (TB)

Access to medicines

Palestine

US plan for temporary pier in Gaza a 'glaring distraction'

The US should insist on immediate humanitarian access using existing roads and entry points.

War and conflict

Malaysia

Doctors Without Borders calls for policies that safeguard the health and dignity of refugees

Kuala Lumpur, Feb 6, 2024: International medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses serious c...

Rohingya refugee crisis

Refugees

Myanmar

Myanmar: Community Health Workers struggle to respond amid severe restrictions in Rakhine state

A new wave of fighting has gripped Myanmar over the past two months. Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing medical hum...