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    COVID-19 places further pressure on Gaza’s overstretched healthcare system
    Palestine
    COVID-19 places further pressure on Gaza’s overstretched healthcare system
    Gaza is currently facing a worrying increase in the number of people with COVID-19. Between March and April, COVID-19 infections have risen at an extr...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Northeast Syria: Hospitals run out of funds and medical supplies as second COVID wave hits region
    Syria
    Northeast Syria: Hospitals run out of funds and medical supplies as second COVID wave hits region
    The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has reached Northeast Syria. As of 26 April, there are over 15,000 confirmed cases – including at least 960 a...
    Refugees
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19: Responding to India’s second wave
    India
    COVID-19: Responding to India’s second wave
    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) restarts emergency response amid a surging second wave of COVID-19 in Mumbai in Maharashtra sta...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Exceptional mortality and hospitals facing collapse in COVID-19-stricken Peru
    Peru
    Exceptional mortality and hospitals facing collapse in COVID-19-stricken Peru
    A new, brutal wave of COVID-19 has swept Peru over the past few weeks, resulting in overcrowded hospitals and high mortality rates, while access to va...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Misinformation and stigma add extra burden to COVID-19 patients in Papua New Guinea
    Papua New Guinea
    Misinformation and stigma add extra burden to COVID-19 patients in Papua New Guinea
    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)is providing psychological support to COVID-19 patients in Papua New Guinea as stigma and misinf...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Asylum seekers are stuck in appalling conditions in Ethiopia’s Gambella region
    Ethiopia
    Asylum seekers are stuck in appalling conditions in Ethiopia’s Gambella region
    Médecins Sans Frontières is concerned about the situation of thousands of asylum seekers from South Sudan who have been stuck for months in appalling ...
    Refugees
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe
    Brazil
    Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe
    More than 12 months into Brazil’s COVID-19 emergency, there is still no effective, centralised and coordinated public health response to the outbreak....
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Yemen: MSF calls on support as COVID-19 second wave overwhelms medical facilities
    Yemen
    Yemen: MSF calls on support as COVID-19 second wave overwhelms medical facilities
    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is seeing a dramatic influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in Ad...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    War and conflict
    Marawi: Displaced communities living with COVID-19 and ongoing uncertainty
    Philippines
    Marawi: Displaced communities living with COVID-19 and ongoing uncertainty
    When the number of patients with confirmed COVID-19 began to rise in March 2020, the Philippines quickly put in place strict community quarantine meas...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Non-communicable diseases