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    Gaza: Displaced pregnant women at high risk amid dire conditions in Rafah
    Palestine
    Gaza: Displaced pregnant women at high risk amid dire conditions in Rafah
    Due to the lack of humanitarian aid and attacks on health care facilities, maternal health care access has been severely disrupted in Gaza, putting bo...
    War and conflict
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Afghanistan: Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in the northern provinces
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Critical gaps in paediatric and neonatal care in the northern provinces
    For more than two decades, Afghanistan's healthcare system has faced longstanding issues of understaffing, underfunding, and inadequate response to po...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Malaysia: Lack of access to maternal healthcare services puts refugee women at risk
    Malaysia
    Malaysia: Lack of access to maternal healthcare services puts refugee women at risk
    Pregnant women from refugee communities in Malaysia have limited access to adequate maternal healthcare services, such as antenatal and postnatal care...
    Maternal health
    Refugees
    Pakistan: Witnessing poor mother and child healthcare in Balochistan
    Pakistan
    Pakistan: Witnessing poor mother and child healthcare in Balochistan
    In Pakistan, thousands of women and infants die each year from medical conditions that are easily preventable. In the southwest province of Balochista...
    Child health
    Maternal health
    Iraq: Maternal Health Services Remain Insufficient in Mosul
    Iraq
    Iraq: Maternal Health Services Remain Insufficient in Mosul
    It is a rainy morning in the Al-Nahwaran neighbourhood of Iraq’s second city Mosul and a group of women are lining up in front of a small medical faci...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Afghanistan: 'My gut feeling told me that ‘something is terribly wrong’
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: 'My gut feeling told me that ‘something is terribly wrong’
    Every year, thousands of Afghan women lose their lives during childbirth, and now even more women in the country are without health care. But at the h...
    Maternal health
    Women’s health
    Afghanistan: Expanding access to urgently needed maternal health care
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Expanding access to urgently needed maternal health care
    Against the backdrop of political and economic crisis and a health care system on the brink of collapse, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Front...
    Maternal health
    Women’s health
    Pakistan: Supporting COVID-19 vaccination activities in Karachi
    Pakistan
    Pakistan: Supporting COVID-19 vaccination activities in Karachi
    Tucked away down a dusty side street in Karachi, Pakistan, is the rural health centre of Sher Shah where Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Front...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Vaccination
    North Lebanon: Doctors Without Borders Starts COVID-19 Vaccination in Remote Areas
    Lebanon
    North Lebanon: Doctors Without Borders Starts COVID-19 Vaccination in Remote Areas
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is contributing to Lebanon’s vaccination efforts in the remote areas of Wadi Khaled, and Khat...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Vaccination