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    Women on the frontline: Defying the consequences of conflict to care for each other
    Chad
    Women on the frontline: Defying the consequences of conflict to care for each other
    In contexts of conflict and war around the world, women are fulfilling indispensable roles to address the healthcare needs of other women in their com...
    Refugees
    War and conflict
    Women’s health
    Landmark Clinical Trial Redefines Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Options
    India
    Landmark Clinical Trial Redefines Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Options
    endTB Clinical Trial Offers Multiple New Shortened Drug Regimens to Treat Adults and Children with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Measles in DRC: the never-ending fight against one of the world’s most contagious disease?
    DR Congo
    Measles in DRC: the never-ending fight against one of the world’s most contagious disease?
    Every two to three years, measles outbreaks affect tens or even hundreds of thousands of children in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Last year was...
    Measles
    Infectious diseases
    Pakistan: Flood emergency is far from over
    Pakistan
    Pakistan: Flood emergency is far from over
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is seeing alarmingly high numbers of patients with malaria and children with malnutrition amo...
    Natural disasters
    Malaria
    Malnutrition
    HIV/AIDS in the DRC: Behind the progress, huge challenges remain
    DR Congo
    HIV/AIDS in the DRC: Behind the progress, huge challenges remain
    In 2002, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams opened the first outpatient treatment centre offering free care to people livi...
    HIV/AIDS
    Access to medicines
    Doctors Without Borders exerts proactive efforts to address abusive behaviours
    DR Congo
    Doctors Without Borders exerts proactive efforts to address abusive behaviours
    In late 2020, a media investigation revealed multiple accounts of abuse from employees of organisations involved in the response to the 10th outbreak ...
    Ebola
    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
    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
    DRC: Doctors Without Borders condemns an attack against one of its vehicles and suspends its activities in Bambu, Ituri
    DR Congo
    DRC: Doctors Without Borders condemns an attack against one of its vehicles and suspends its activities in Bambu, Ituri
    On October 28, 2021, a team of five people from Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), travelled to the Bambu health district in It...
    War and conflict