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    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
    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
    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
    Iraq: Supporting hospitals to face a pandemic
    Iraq
    Iraq: Supporting hospitals to face a pandemic
    “When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Iraq in March 2020, it was quickly clear that it would be a huge challenge to the health system,” says Dr Daniel U...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    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
    Iraq: Tackling multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, one patient at a time
    Iraq
    Iraq: Tackling multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, one patient at a time
    In Iraq, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the Iraqi National Tuberculosis Institute to detect and diagnose TB and MDR...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Infectious diseases