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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

Papua New Guinea

Fighting tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea

In Papua New Guinea, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF)is working with patients to strengthen prevention, diagnosis and treatment...

Tuberculosis (TB)

Infectious diseases

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)

Haiti

Haiti: A wave of violence in Port-au-Prince

In the capital of Haiti, 96 people with gunshot wounds received by Doctors Without Borders in recent weeks.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong: The elderly and vulnerable groups must not be isolated in any future outbreak response

Amidst the 5th wave of COVID-19 infections in Hong Kong, the magnitude and severity of the crisis left the elderly and vulnerable groups isolated and ...

COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)

Madagascar

Madagascar: Struggling for water across Great South

Obtaining water for drinking, cooking and washing is an everyday struggle for people in Madagascar’s Great South. Periods of drought – extremely frequ...

Climate emergency

Doctors Without Borders and its partners’ TB PRACTECAL Clinical Trial will be included in the updated WHO global guidance on treatment

Geneva, 3 May2022 - Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are pleased that,having shared the results of TBPRACTECAL, our clinical t...

Access to medicines

Tuberculosis (TB)

Cameroon

Cameroon: Four months on, an ongoing nightmare for Doctors Without Borders colleagues detained in South-West Cameroon

Four months ago today, Marguerite M. and Ashu D. plunged into a nightmare which continues. They are Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (...

Syria

Northern Syria: Ineffective COVID-19 vaccine system has hampered vaccination

The COVID-19 vaccine Humanitarian Buffer (HB) is failing its mission to support populations hit by the pandemic and struggling to have access to immun...