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    Measles in South Sudan: People escaping conflict in Sudan face new health crisis
    South Sudan
    Measles in South Sudan: People escaping conflict in Sudan face new health crisis
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are recording a concerning rise in measles and malnutrition cases in the organization’s...
    Measles
    War and conflict
    Lebanon: Syrians in the country struggle to access healthcare amid fear of deportations
    Lebanon
    Lebanon: Syrians in the country struggle to access healthcare amid fear of deportations
    Syrian refugees in Lebanon are finding it increasingly difficult to access vital medical services due to reports of forced deportation and restriction...
    Refugees
    Iraq: Providing post-operative care where patients need it in Baghdad
    Iraq
    Iraq: Providing post-operative care where patients need it in Baghdad
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)has decided to share knowledge, know-how and relocate the post-operative care that the medical...
    Surgery and trauma care
    Mental health
    South Sudan: Catastrophic floods cause mass displacement and an escalating humanitarian crisis
    South Sudan
    South Sudan: Catastrophic floods cause mass displacement and an escalating humanitarian crisis
    A small makeshift raft made from plastic sheeting and filled with dry grass is drifting along the Nile River’s current, on it sits an entire family of...
    Natural disasters
    Lebanon: Lack of safe water and sanitation threatens the ability to contain the spread of cholera
    Lebanon
    Lebanon: Lack of safe water and sanitation threatens the ability to contain the spread of cholera
    The first cholera outbreak in nearly three decades in Lebanon, is unfolding on top of the ongoing economic and fuel crisis that has further exacerbate...
    Cholera
    The triple threat of climate change, conflict, and health emergencies: A deadly mix for the most vulnerable in fragile settings
    Mali
    The triple threat of climate change, conflict, and health emergencies: A deadly mix for the most vulnerable in fragile settings
    Geneva (MSF/ICRC) – Climate change is not a distant threat. It is already dramatically affecting vulnerable people across the globe. In particular, th...
    Climate emergency
    Mosul, Iraq: A slow road to recovery for the city of two springs
    Iraq
    Mosul, Iraq: A slow road to recovery for the city of two springs
    In October 2016, the military offensive to retake the city from the Islamic State group (ISg) began. The battle was officially declared “over” five ye...
    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
    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