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    The shared challenges of giving birth
    Central African Republic
    The shared challenges of giving birth
    Stories from women in some of the world’s most remote places reveal that challenges of giving birth without losing their lives are strikingly similar ...
    Maternal health
    From silence to healing: New fistula care offers hope for women in Baidoa, Somalia
    Somalia
    From silence to healing: New fistula care offers hope for women in Baidoa, Somalia
    In Baidoa, Somalia, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has established a new unit at Bay Regional Hospital to treat obstetric fist...
    Women’s health
    Maternal health
    Somalia: Funding gaps and barriers to access undermine healthcare for women and children
    Somalia
    Somalia: Funding gaps and barriers to access undermine healthcare for women and children
    Challenges such as poverty, insecurity, and distance hinder access to healthcare in Somalia's remote regions, and the withdrawal of funding has led to...
    Access to medicines
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Chad: "Delivering hope, one baby at a time", a midwife’s story
    Chad
    Chad: "Delivering hope, one baby at a time", a midwife’s story
    For the past year, midwife Solange Famanou Ahidjo has been working in the maternity ward at Aboutengué camp in eastern Chad with Doctors Without Borde...
    Maternal health
    War and conflict
    Khost Maternity Hospital is Open 24/7 – we rest when we have the chance
    Afghanistan
    Khost Maternity Hospital is Open 24/7 – we rest when we have the chance
    Renny Anggia Julianti is an Indonesian Ob-Gynecologist. On her first mission in 2019, she was assigned in Khost maternity hospital, Afghanistan. And s...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Ode to My Parents
    Afghanistan
    Ode to My Parents
    Wong Poh Fei recounts breaking the news of her recruitment to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a first assignment in Sierr...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Breathe: The Story of Saleem
    Afghanistan
    Breathe: The Story of Saleem
    It was an unspoken understanding that a sick newborn’s life is fragile in this country and that the loss of a child is a common occurrence in many wom...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    "You Cannot Change The Circumstances, But You Can Change Yourself"
    Afghanistan
    "You Cannot Change The Circumstances, But You Can Change Yourself"
    At Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Khost Maternity Hospital (also known as the ‘baby factory’), where roughly 50 babies are b...
    Maternal health
    Child health
    Yemen: It’s not always a bullet that kills people
    Yemen
    Yemen: It’s not always a bullet that kills people
    Monica Costeira is a pediatrician at the neonatal unit of Al-Qanawis mother and child hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in Hodeidah, Yemen...
    Maternal health
    War and conflict