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
India
India: "The staff we have aren’t enough"
The situation in India and in Mumbai is very bad. It’s critical across the country. We’re providing medical support to one of the COVID treatment cent...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
India
"Mumbai is still seeing more than 3,000 new cases of COVID every day"
Doctors Without Borders is working in M-East Ward in Mumbai, one of the densely populated administrative division having 70% of its population living ...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
India
India: "My biggest concerns are the knock-on effects of COVID on other aspects of healthcare."
I am the Project Medical Referent working in Doctors Without Borders drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV project in the M-East Ward, one of the TB hig...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
India
India: "We’re not able to find enough nurses"
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has restartedemergency response amid a surging second wave of COVID-19 in Mumbai in Maharashtra...
COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
Kenya
Refugee camps in Kenya are closing. What's next for the refugees?
The Kenyan government and the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, formally announced plans to close refugee camps in the country by 30 June 2022.
Refugees
Mexico
“We are fleeing so they won't kill us, but even that doesn't matter. I cannot protect my children.”
We had to flee Guatemala because my husband handled confidential information in his job and the gangs asked him for information. They were threatening...
Refugees
Central African Republic
Healing the visible and invisible wounds of sexual violence in Central African Republic
Sexual violence has become a public health issue in Central African Republic (CAR) over the past decade, with women and minors being the most affected...
Sexual violence
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...