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    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
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders is responding to earthquakes in Herat
    At 11:10 am local time on Saturday, October 7, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck western Afghanistan, followed by three subsequent aftershocks. As of ...
    Natural disasters
    Emergency response
    Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: “It is difficult to know that we are something less”
    The future of female patients and health workers in Afghanistan is being threatened by the recent decree issued by the Ministry of Economy prohibiting...
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders condemns the ban on women working for NGOs and their erasure from public life
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Doctors Without Borders condemns the ban on women working for NGOs and their erasure from public life
    After months of continuous restrictions placed on the female population of Afghanistan, limitations placed on their participation in everyday life, ac...
    Afghanistan: The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: The Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kandahar provides hope for people with TB
    Jawahira was referred to the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tuberculosis (TB) hospital in Kandahar earlier this year from a ...
    Tuberculosis (TB)
    Hong Kong: Doctors Without Borders partners with local NGO to launch mobile vaccination programme for homebound elderly
    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)
    Hong Kong: The elderly and vulnerable groups must not be isolated in any future outbreak response
    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)
    Hong Kong: Doctors Without Borders collaborates with local NGOs to support vulnerable groups during the Omicron wave
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong: Doctors Without Borders collaborates with local NGOs to support vulnerable groups during the Omicron wave
    With COVID-19 infections in Hong Kong hitting new highs, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has rapidly organised a project team...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
    Afghanistan
    Afghanistan: Measles poses deadly risk for malnourished children
    Zainab didn’t sleep well last night. The lights and the incessant beeping of the machines in the intensive care unit would keep anyone awake. But main...
    Measles
    Malnutrition