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    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
    At 11:10 am local time on Saturday, October 7, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan, followed by three subsequent aftershocks. As of ...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Libya: Mental health support needed after Storm Daniel destroys Derna
    Libya
    Libya: Mental health support needed after Storm Daniel destroys Derna
    Two weeks after Storm Daniel caused devastating floods that engulfed Derna and killed thousands in a few hours, search and rescue operations are about...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Mental health
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders prepares for medical response in Derna
    Libya
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders prepares for medical response in Derna
    As Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Libya begin medical activities in the cities of Derna and Susah one week after th...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders teams assess needs in Storm Daniel aftermath
    Libya
    Libya: Doctors Without Borders teams assess needs in Storm Daniel aftermath
    A Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team has arrived on 13 September 2023 evening from Misrata to Tobruk, east Libya and is due...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Innovation: when AI helps improve cervical cancer diagnosis
    Malawi
    Innovation: when AI helps improve cervical cancer diagnosis
    Cervical cancer is the second deadliest cancer in low- and middle-income countries. In Malawi in East Africa, where Doctors Without Borders / Médecins...
    Non-communicable diseases
    Three questions: Managing cervical cancer with limited treatment options in Malawi
    Malawi
    Three questions: Managing cervical cancer with limited treatment options in Malawi
    Cervical cancer accounts for 37 per cent of new cancers in women in Malawi. Since 2018, Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has be...
    Non-communicable diseases
    The Philippines: Five years of medical care for Marawi siege survivors
    Philippines
    The Philippines: Five years of medical care for Marawi siege survivors
    It has been five years since the siege of Marawi displaced 98 per cent of the population of the southern Philippines city. Since the conflict, Doctors...
    War and conflict
    Non-communicable diseases
    Mental health
    Iraq: Bringing vital medical care closer to the people of Hawija District
    Iraq
    Iraq: Bringing vital medical care closer to the people of Hawija District
    Despite more than four and a half years since Iraq’s Hawija district was retaken from the control of the Islamic State (IS) group, the population in t...
    Non-communicable diseases
    Hong Kong: Doctors Without Borders partners with local NGO to launch mobile vaccination programme for homebound elderly
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong: Doctors Without Borders partners with local NGO to launch mobile vaccination programme for homebound elderly
    Mrs Chan Au Kwai Fan, in her 80s, has spent most of her years in Wong Tai Sin. She moved to the district after marrying her husband, Chan Choi Yip, an...
    COVID-19 vaccines
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)