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    Syria: Mental wounds remain deep a year after the earthquakes
    Syria
    Syria: Mental wounds remain deep a year after the earthquakes
    People in northwest Syria continue to struggle with the mental health impacts of more than a decade of war, compounded by the devastating earthquakes ...
    Natural disasters
    Mental health
    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
    Syria: 11 years of war through a Syrian Doctors Without Borders Hospital
    Syria
    Syria: 11 years of war through a Syrian Doctors Without Borders Hospital
    In 2012, a year after war broke out in Syria, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a burn care unit in Atmeh, in northweste...
    Surgery and trauma care
    War and conflict
    Refugees
    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
    Syria: The humanitarian isolation of northwest must be prevented
    Syria
    Syria: The humanitarian isolation of northwest must be prevented
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to renew the cross-border resolution (UNS...
    War and conflict
    Syria: Doctors Without Borders aid convoy in relief of earthquake victims enters northwest Syria
    Syria
    Syria: Doctors Without Borders aid convoy in relief of earthquake victims enters northwest Syria
    Doctors Without Borders /Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)calls for the urgent scaling up of humanitarian supplies, which currently fail to even match pr...
    Natural disasters
    Earthquake in Syria: "Hospitals were full of wounded and dead"
    Syria
    Earthquake in Syria: "Hospitals were full of wounded and dead"
    According to the latest estimates, the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria have killed more than 35,000 people. In Northwest Syria, a largely landl...
    Natural disasters
    "There is no time to waste in reaching the people of this region"
    Syria
    "There is no time to waste in reaching the people of this region"
    According to the latest estimates, the earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria have killed more than 35,000 people and injured tens of thousands more. ...
    Natural disasters
    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...