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        • 5 minutes to understand… Ebola in a conflict zone
        • Bangladesh: The crisis is not over - Rohingya refugees are still arriving
        • Because I’m a woman...
        • Gaza: Interview with the medical coordinator
        • Help save lives
        • I was bitten, and I could not protect my children
        • International Humanitarian Law: does it matter?
        • Iraq: Over a third of our patients in East Mosul show antibiotic resistance
        • Lebanon: Refugees in Shatila camp
        • Pakistan: Bringing hope to sufferers of a neglected disease
        • Palliative care: Our mission is also to alleviate suffering
        • Part 1 | The Teacher
        • Part 4 |The Doctor
        • Saving lives is non-negotiable. Saving lives is what we do.
        • Voices from Gaza: "We have a huge mountain to climb, and we cannot do it alone"
        • Walk and Talk: Amman reconstructive surgery hospital
      • Blog posts
        • A Father’s smile
        • A funny thing happened on the way to the office
        • A letter from Lankien, South Sudan
        • A star is born
        • Aiding & Abetting?
        • Baby Shahida
        • Bangladesh: Love is all you need
        • Be careful what you ask for…
        • Big Babies, Small Babies, So Many Babies!
        • Central African Republic: "An impossible choice"
        • Clémentine
        • Cooking with MSF: Sierra Leone Cheesecake
        • DRC: Life in the emergency unit
        • DRC: Reflections on cholera
        • Death
        • European Refugee Crisis: Frozen out by Europe
        • Families without fathers
        • Finding the strength to save my daughter
        • Five Myths to work about MSF
        • Getting ready for the baby boom
        • Hand-Washing Day!
        • How MSF staff spend their weekends
        • I didn't leave the hospital for three weeks
        • I'm cured, but my fight against TB isn't over
        • In fear for his life
        • Innovation: Can stories help to save lives?
        • Innovation: Mobile Unit Surgical Trailer – “War will not wait”
        • Innovation: Three MSF start-up projects that could save lives in the future...
        • Iraq: Healing the psychological and emotional scars of the conflict
        • Iraq: Mahmoud and the mint plant
        • Iraq: “The vast majority of patients we saw in the emergency room were paediatric cases”
        • It will take me time
        • Jordan: "My first impression was of the fear and anxiety that I could see in his eyes"
        • Karachi Biryani: A meal loved by everyone….
        • Life in Raqqa was terrifying
        • Malawi: Detained for a dream
        • Most victims are hit in the street
        • My desire to survive
        • My life with HIV
        • My name is Mahmoud! I am 10 years old...
        • My time in Pakistan: How playing games could help save lives
        • No end to the music
        • No woman should die in the process of giving birth
        • Of cultures and dinosaurs: Promoting health, laughs and understanding in Pakistan
        • One hand does not clap - Afghani proverb
        • Patients make me happy every day
        • Photo blog: Emergency malaria clinics up and running
        • Premature baby fights for her life
        • Reflections on Malaria
        • Search and rescue: "Good luck, my sister"
        • Searching for search and rescue
        • South Sudan: Our international mini-village
        • Speaking out against continuous violence
        • Supporting communities trapped on eastern Ukraine’s frontline
        • TB & Me: 'You need to get treatment and believe in yourself'
        • Tegus, sexual violence and saying goodbye
        • The Darkest Hour
        • The Invisible World of Supply
        • The first 24 hour shift
        • The great impersonator
        • The letter that changed me
        • The shadow of Syria
        • The stigma of being a single mother in India
        • The street that turned into a river
        • The things I'm grateful for
        • Treating torture: “You have to approach every survivor differently”
        • Welcome to Iraq!
        • Where will they sleep tonight?
        • Yemen: Going to a warzone is no 'adventure'
        • Yemen: “Healthcare at breaking point”
        • Yemen: “On an average day in Taiz, we hear around five explosions per minute”
        • “Look at me well” - How we made a viral music video to fight HIV in Kinshasa
      • Featured Stories
        • 2016: A year in pictures
        • A meeting with minds: mental health project
        • Afghanistan: My sister, I will take care of you
        • An extra 30 nurses to cope with the influx of wounded in Gaza
        • Arsal: Where else would we go?
        • Bangladesh: We provided one million consultations. This is what we found.
        • Bangladeshis at the centre of the humanitarian response
        • Beautiful Faces of Mosul
        • Beyond a healthy body: MSF's mental health activities
        • CAR: "Our midwives are working as first responders"
        • Comics from a conference without borders
        • Confinement, violence and chaos
        • DRC: "There is no health without mental health"
        • Diffa, Niger: Young minds damaged by the conflict
        • Ebola outbreak 2018
        • Egyp: MSF has treated more than 1,700 patients from more than 10 countires
        • El Salvador: Watching and being watched by The Boys from MS13
        • Fighting against stigma in Nablus
        • Five minutes to understand: The eradication of Polio
        • From mission impossible to mission possible in 12 month
        • Gaza: Wounds inflicted on the people bear witness to their living conditions
        • Haiti: Mobile clinic by donkey
        • If you don’t fail, then you are not innovating
        • India: Fighting malnutrition alongside local communities
        • International Women’s Day: Caring for displaced women
        • Iraq: Isolated, angry, anxious and stressed - mental health in Iraq
        • Iraq: healing victims of war at the Baghdad Medical Rehabilitation Centre
        • Jordan: Treating patients at home
        • Kenya: 11,578 delivered in MSF's shipping container hospital
        • Kerala: Our medical team provided medical consultations to vulnerable people in six relief camps
        • Lebanon: Kids get specialised care in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley
        • Living with Diabetes: Syrian and Jordanian patients fight their silent diseases - Part 2
        • Living with Diabetes: Syrian and Jordanian patients fight their silent diseases - Part 3
        • Living with Diabetes: Syrian and Jordanian patients fight their silent diseases
        • MSF Access Campaign: 2016 Year in Review
        • Mediterranean: A cemetery of water
        • Mexico: 72 hours at "LA 72"
        • Mosul: One Year On
        • Myanmar/Bangladesh: ‘No one was left’ - Death and Violence Against the Rohingya
        • New Year Babies: The first MSF deliveries of 2019
        • North Kivu: We cannot let our guard down until the Ebola epidemic is declared over
        • One year on and Rohingya refugees are still trapped in a cycle of suffering and poor health.
        • Op-Ed| Trust us, we’re doctors.
        • Overview of the refugee crisis in Europe
        • Palestinians between check points and mental suffering
        • Part 3|The Mother
        • Psychologist Diane Hanna: Painting of people I met in Mosul
        • Rohingya Crisis: 12 months in photos
        • Rohingya Refugees: Facts and Figures
        • Rohingya in Bangladesh: A journey of death and life
        • Salvaging bodies: A doctor's everyday reality in Syria
        • Search and rescue: Fear and joy on an MSF rescue boat
        • Syria: "We need your help to stop the bombing"
        • Syria: In dust and despair, displaced Syrians wait
        • Syria: The voice from the hospital basement in East Ghouta
        • Tales from MSF’s ‘Container Village’ in Likoni, Kenya
        • The Grandmother
        • The killer diseases: Antibiotic resistance
        • The smartphone that saves lives
        • The struggle to rebuild Mosul is far from over
        • Time to strike back at snakebite
        • Uganda overwhelmed as tens of thousands flee violence in South Sudan
        • Walk and Talk: Ebola Treatment Centre in Magina, DRC
        • We were beaten in Iraq and we came to Lesvos to find the same situation
        • What is it like to live in a camp for the Rohingyas
        • Words from Gaza youngest patients
        • Yemen: “In Taiz people are still hopeful for a stronger future.”
        • life is still on hold for the Roghingya
        • “The hardest thing about the injury is not being able to walk”
      • Opinion and debate
        • Bangladesh: Opinion - Rohingya refugees "People are in survival mode"
        • Libya: When France becomes accomplice to the very crimes it condemns
        • Opinion and Debate: Where is the love?
        • Opinion and debate | MSF suspension of EU funds: The evolution from financial opportunism to consistency of principles
        • Opinion and debate | MSF suspension of EU funds: When short memory meets moral opportunism
        • Opinion and debate: "Let's be clear - we are witnessing a true cleansing in CAR"
        • Opinion and debate: A World Humanitarian Summit that doesn’t talk about humanitarian action
        • Opinion and debate: Another dangerous step further down the slippery slope?
        • Opinion and debate: AstraZeneca and Pfizer – what hasn’t been talked about?
        • Opinion and debate: Building resilience by deconstructing humanitarian aid
        • Opinion and debate: Bursting the Bubble - Fizzy water and the politics of humanitarian aid
        • Opinion and debate: Catastrophic thinking
        • Opinion and debate: Cold war humanitarianism in Ukraine
        • Opinion and debate: Collecting data on sexual violence - what do we need to know?
        • Opinion and debate: Confused in Congo: they shoot, we give the shots
        • Opinion and debate: Countries, beware! Climbing up the income ladder can seriously damage your health
        • Opinion and debate: Dadaab refugees - a plea for dignity
        • Opinion and debate: Drone Aid: A useful tool with a toxic image
        • Opinion and debate: Effectiveness and accountability - How do we move from aspirational principles to practical action?
        • Opinion and debate: Either… Or - Building resilience is still not compatible with humanitarian aid
        • Opinion and debate: Emergency response - is prevention the key to successful intervention?
        • Opinion and debate: Expats - the useful idiots of impartiality
        • Opinion and debate: From ‘R2P’ to peacekeepers on steroids
        • Opinion and debate: High drug prices are hurting us all
        • Opinion and debate: Hundreds of thousands of people cannot be punished for the actions of a few
        • Opinion and debate: If basic life support is a pull-factor, let them come
        • Opinion and debate: Is better delivery of assistance the key to a future for the humanitarian project?
        • Opinion and debate: Is medical care really under fire? A debate on humanitarian security
        • Opinion and debate: It’s time for humanitarians to shine the spotlight on the neglected issue of palliative care
        • Opinion and debate: Less is more - The case for a purely humanitarian response in emergencies
        • Opinion and debate: Let it go, let it go? Or give it up?
        • Opinion and debate: Lift the blockade on Gaza
        • Opinion and debate: MSF should not replace governmental responsibilities in Ebola fight
        • Opinion and debate: Morbid milestones: The never-ending cycle of violence against Palestinians
        • Opinion and debate: Overcoming ‘opiophobia’ - the need for proper treatment of pain due to trauma and after operations
        • Opinion and debate: Questions around a forced exodus
        • Opinion and debate: Refugees are not terrorists
        • Opinion and debate: Search and Destroy does not save migrants' lives
        • Opinion and debate: See No Fogeys. Hear No Fogeys. Help No Fogeys?
        • Opinion and debate: Six reasons why the NGO certification process is not the solution
        • Opinion and debate: TB - The disease we should be worrying about
        • Opinion and debate: TB - the old devil in new clothes
        • Opinion and debate: Terrorist until proven innocent
        • Opinion and debate: The Bangkok Buyers Club
        • Opinion and debate: The Bangui debacle
        • Opinion and debate: The McDonalds index of humanitarian access
        • Opinion and debate: The Syria Conference: a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
        • Opinion and debate: The World Humanitarian Summit – will it pass the Katanga test?
        • Opinion and debate: The aid world has failed the people of the Central African Republic
        • Opinion and debate: The critical role of the humanitarian critique
        • Opinion and debate: The limits of humanitarian aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
        • Opinion and debate: The limits of humanitarianism in Gaza
        • Opinion and debate: The new normal in European aid - keeping ‘trouble’ from European shores
        • Opinion and debate: The painfully obvious Core Humanitarian Standards highlight a humanitarian system that’s out of touch
        • Opinion and debate: The regime of humanitarian detention
        • Opinion and debate: Unfunded locals on the frontlines
        • Opinion and debate: We are Europe - we can do better
        • Opinion and debate: We are people - The façade of European values
        • Opinion and debate: Why David Miliband is wrong about humanitarian goals
        • Opinion and debate: Words of concern, walls of deterrence
        • Opinion and debate: World Humanitarian Summit: An unhelpful bias toward natural disasters?
      • Statements
        • Fighting abuse, exploitation and harassment in our work environment
        • Gaza: Violence is unacceptable and inhuman
      • Stories from the field
        • Doctor Javid Abdelmoneim
        • Logistician Cokie van der Velde
        • Yemen: “Just living has become more difficult”
        • Surgeon Paul McMaster
    • Press room
      • Press releases
        • 99 survivors rescued from sinking dinghy in Mediterranean but many presumed drowned
        • Bangladesh: Immediate action needed to avert massive public health disaster
        • Critical situation for refugees and migrants still stuck on Paris streets as temperatures drop
        • EU border policies fuel mental health crisis for asylum seekers on Greek islands
        • Greek islands: Families on the brink of a humanitarian emergency
        • Idlib: MSF-supported hospital closed after damage from airstrikes
        • MSF condemns incursion by armed men into supported hospitals
        • MSF opens day centre for unaccompanied minors in Pantin
        • MSF releases new medical guidelines app
        • MSF reports show more assistance is needed in south Syria to meet health care needs
        • MSF surveys estimate that at least 6,700 Rohingya were killed during the attacks in Myanmar
        • Medical services stretched beyond limit amid mass casualty influxes in Syria’s East Ghouta enclave
        • Mosul: Returnees face booby-trapped homes and decimated infrastructure
        • Médecins Sans Frontières sends essential supplies for Rohingya refugees via Dubai’s air bridge
        • Nearly 600 people rescued in Mediterranean but unknown number missing presumed drowned
        • Raqqa: 33 blast victims treated by MSF in Raqqa in the first week of 2018
        • Reducing stigma is key to helping displaced people in Sulaymaniyah recover from trauma
        • Syria: Airstrikes or minefields – the deadly choice facing Raqqa’s residents
        • Syria: Booby-traps and landmines – the conditions awaiting Raqqa’s returning residents
        • Syria: Healthcare is being annihilated amid intensified bombings in Syria’s north-west
        • The Dawn of Recovery: MSF Reconstructive Surgery Hospital Photo Exhibition
        • Yemen: MSF calls on Saudi–led coalition to immediately allow access into Yemen for humanitarian organisations
        • Yemen: Cholera outbreak threatens to get out of control
        • Yemen: Government health staff are saving lives without salaries
        • Yemen: Intense fighting and blockade further reduces access to healtcare
        • Yemen: MSF reduces its cholera response as admissions drop
        • “Treating children in Niger as quickly, and as close to their communities, as possible”
        • Old press releases
          • ARVs: MSF addresses US study on HIV drugs
          • Access to Medicines: MSF kicks off global ████ to reduce the price of ████ to $5 in developing countries
          • Access: India pressured by EU to sign harmful trade deal
          • Afghanistan: Between rhetoric and reality – the ongoing struggle to access healthcare
          • Afghanistan: MSF demands explanations after deadly Kunduz airstrikes
          • Afghanistan: MSF staff killed and hospital partially destroyed in Kunduz
          • Afghanistan: MSF strongly condemns violence against humanitarian workers and facilities
          • Afghanistan: MSF treats victims of Kunduz bomb blast
          • Aleppo: Trapped, under attack and struggling to survive
          • Bahrain: Medical ethics conference cancelled
          • Balkans: Hundreds stranded without aid as new border control measures come into force
          • Beyond the rhetoric: Implement proven community strategies to fight HIV/AIDS
          • Bulgaria: Appalling conditions in reception centres following influx of Syrian refugees
          • Burundi: MSF treats 60 people wounded in grenade explosions
          • By Boat and By Car, MSF’s Newest Project in South Sudan Brings Medical Care to Remote Locations
          • CAR: Escalating violence endangering civilians and delivery of humanitarian aid
          • CAR: International efforts to protect civilians failing to stop slaughter
          • CAR: Lootings and armed theft prevent humanitarian response
          • CAR: MSF calls upon government and all parties to the conflict to publicly condemn attacks against civilians and humanitarian workers
          • CAR: MSF condemns continued attacks against civilians
          • CAR: MSF starts emergency intervention in Kouango amid ‘a terrible mix of violence, displacement and lack of basic healthcare’
          • CAR: MSF treat victims of violent clashes in capital Bangui
          • CAR: Mortality study reveals shocking extent of violence
          • CAR: Open Letter to the United Nations
          • CAR: Patients cut off from healthcare in Bangui
          • CAR: People caught in crisis still waiting for help
          • CAR: UN must urgently and radically change its humanitarian response
          • CAR: Violence prevents wounded and sick from reaching hospital
          • CAR: Violent attacks against MSF threaten the supply of humanitarian assistance
          • CAR: Violent attacks leave civilians injured and homes destroyed
          • Central African Republic: Abandoned to its fate?
          • Central African Republic: Fighting reaches unprecedented levels of violence
          • Central African Republic: Fresh attack on MSF in Ndele
          • Central African Republic: Fresh fighting leads to further mass displacement in Bouca
          • Central African Republic: Survivors describe a mass rape ordeal outside Bossangoa
          • Central African Republic: Systematic attacks on citizens
          • Central African Republic: Violence in Bangui hospitals
          • Central Mediterranean: European governments are obstructing lifesaving rescues and returning people to unsafe Libya
          • Chad: Despite mass vaccination, measles cases in N’djamena not decreasing
          • Chad: Reducing child mortality with malaria prevention and immunisation
          • Chad: Refugees must receive humanitarian assistance following Darfur clashes
          • Colombia: Sexual violence, an unattended medical emergency
          • DRC: Emergency in South Irumu – “People have simply been abandoned"
          • DRC: Family infected after child bite in rabies horror
          • DRC: MSF assists displaced people in Ituri, Orientale Province
          • DRC: MSF assists victims of violence in South Kivu
          • DRC: MSF begins extraordinary rabies intervention
          • DRC: MSF denounces acts of violence against civilians in Masisi
          • DRC: MSF limits medical activities in Mweso
          • DRC: MSF releases report on shocking humanitarian situation
          • DRC: MSF urging military in Béni to take every precaution to protect hostages' lives
          • DRC: One staff member returned, three still missing
          • DRC: Racing against time to stem measles epidemic
          • DRC: Renewed violence hits Pinga
          • Dadaab: Agreement on refugee repatriation should not affect aid delivery
          • Dadaab: Humanitarian aid must be prioritised, despite return of refugees to Somalia
          • Dadaab: MSF forced to close health posts and evacuate staff amid escalating insecurity
          • Decisions under pressure: An unprecedented inside-view of humanitarian crises
          • Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF suspends a measles vaccination campaign
          • Democratic Republic of Congo: MSF suspends medical activities in Pinga after threats to staff
          • Dr Joanne Liu new International President of MSF
          • Drug-resistant tuberculosis: The biggest threat to global health you've never heard of
          • Ebola: Antimalarial drug reduced risk of dying among Ebola patients
          • Ebola: First trials for new treatments to start at MSF sites
          • Ebola: Hard-won gains in Liberia must not be undermined
          • Ebola: International response to Ebola risks becoming a 'double failure'
          • Ebola: Liberia Ebola-free, MSF urges continued vigilance
          • Ebola: MSF Doctor recovers from virus in New York
          • Ebola: MSF has virus under control in northern DRC
          • Ebola: MSF resumes activities in southeast Guinea
          • Ebola: MSF staff member evacuated from Mali
          • Ebola: MSF staff member in US hospital
          • Ebola: Official MSF response to WHO declaring epidemic an "extraordinary event"
          • Ebola: Outbreak over in West Africa; world must learn lesson for future, says MSF
          • Ebola: Pushed to the limit and beyond - MSF report
          • Ebola: Treatment trials to be fast-tracked in West Africa
          • Ethiopia: Urgent assistance needed for South Sudanese refugees
          • Europe, don't turn your back on asylum: #TakePeopleIn
          • European Refugee Crisis: Thousands trapped in freezing temperatures
          • European governments must acknowledge their responsibility to help the most vulnerable people trapped in Libya.
          • Financial Times selects MSF as 2016/17 Seasonal Appeal partner
          • First UN TBsummit: Global leaders must make bold commitments
          • Five MSF staff held in Syria released
          • France: Refugees and migrants must not be shunned from humanitarian camps
          • G7: The world is no better prepared today than a year ago to respond to Ebola
          • Gaza Strip: Israel must stop bombing trapped civilians
          • Gaza: MSF strongly condemns attack on Al Shifa hospital
          • Global response to hepatitis C hangs on access to new oral drugs
          • Greece: Expensive pneumonia vaccine key barrier to vaccinating refugee children
          • Greece: MSF calls for immediate opening of hotspots
          • Greece: MSF denounces Greek authorities’ decision to detain migrants indefinitely
          • Greece: MSF urges action on the reception crisis faced by thousands
          • Guinea: Mobilising against an unprecedented Ebola epidemic
          • Guinea: Oral cholera vaccine highly effective during outbreak
          • HIV: Generic competition pushing down drug prices but patents keep newer drugs unaffordable
          • HIV: Higher prices hinder access to newer drugs
          • HIV: New drug dolutegravir approved by USFDA
          • HIV: Two new studies point to impact of HIV treatment on transmission in high-HIV-burden African contexts
          • Haiti: Deplorable conditions for cholera patients
          • Heat-stable vaccines urgently needed to reach the one in five children missed by immunisation worldwide
          • Hepatitis C: Common among HIV-positive patients in sub-Saharan Africa
          • India: Community management of acute malnutrition leads to high cure rates
          • India: Final hearings begin in Bayer appeal
          • India: Government must address worrying stock outs of TB drugs
          • India: Landmark victory for generic drugs
          • India: MSF launches campaign to protect access to affordable medicines
          • India: MSF supports introduction of single-dose treatment for kala azar
          • India: Supreme Court delivers historic verdict in Novartis case
          • Iraq: A difficult journey of healing for war-wounded residents in Mosul
          • Iraq: Hawijah offensive pushes nearly 14,000 people to neighboring districts in Kirkuk governorate
          • Iraq: Increasing numbers of Iraqis in need of humanitarian assistance
          • Iraq: MSF calls for the respect of medical facilites
          • Iraq: Mental health project empowers Iraqis to take back their lives
          • Iraq: People left without medical care as hospitals destroyed by repeated airstrikes
          • Iraq: Scores of IDPs lacking essential aid in Kirkuk
          • Iraq: Women and children among the scores of war-wounded treated at MSF hospital in West Mosul
          • Italy and the EU must not abandon refugees at sea
          • Italy: EU must recognise human cost of repressive migration policies
          • Italy: MSF calls for temporary closure and evacuation of migrants centre in Lampedusa
          • Jordan: MSF calls for medical evacuation of Syrian war-wounded
          • Jordan: MSF sees dramatic increase in Syrian patients wounded by barrel bombs
          • Jordan: Paediatric hospital opens in Zaatari camp
          • Kala azar: Increased access to HIV coinfection imperative for elimination in Bihar, India
          • Kenya: New clinic brings comprehensive care to most vulnerable
          • Kenya: Somali refugees must not be forcibly returned, says MSF
          • Kunduz: Fact-finding commission poised to conduct investigation
          • Kunduz: MSF launches petition for Afghanistan attack investigation
          • Kunduz: MSF releases internal review of hospital attack
          • Lebanon: Aid lags as Syrian refugee numbers increase
          • Liberia: 300,000 people at risk of malaria as Ebola epidemic damages healthcare system
          • Liberia: Ebola drug trial halted
          • Libya: Thousands of desperate people are still trapped in detention centres
          • MSF President to UN Security Council: "Stop these attacks"
          • MSF UK Director: We strongly condemn UK pressure to push refugees back to Libya with gunboats
          • MSF again condemns abduction of its two colleagues in Dadaab and calls for their release
          • MSF aid workers freed in Somalia arrive in Spain
          • MSF and Royal College of GPs launch joint project
          • MSF applauds new WHO recommendations for accelerating HIV treatment in developing countries
          • MSF calls on European Union to stop putting migrants’ lives at risk
          • MSF calls on GSK and Pfizer to slash pneumo vaccine price to $5 per child for poor countries
          • MSF calls to all sides to spare the lives of trapped civilians in the Aleppo battle
          • MSF delivers petition of almost 400,000 people who demand GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer cut price of pneumonia vaccine
          • MSF hands over Ebola response activities in DRC
          • MSF launches app for public to help deliver medical care to most vulnerable
          • MSF launches fundraising appeal for Philippines relief effort
          • MSF report: The journey taken by war-wounded Syrians to rebuild their bodies and minds in Jordan
          • MSF responds to WHO TB treatment and diagnostic recommendations
          • MSF to no longer take funds from EU Member States and institutions
          • MSF to pull out of World Humanitarian Summit
          • MSF welcomes GSK's decision to lower the price of the pneumonia vaccine
          • MSF: Greece must end systematic and prolonged detention of migrants
          • MSF: Saving lives at sea is not a crime
          • Mali: All warring parties must allow unrestricted access to healthcare
          • Mali: MSF calls for access to Konna
          • Mediterranean: Latest capsized boat highlights urgent need for rescue capacity
          • Mexico: Central American migrants facing alarming levels of violence
          • Migrants: Assistance urgently needed as number of refugees arriving in Greek islands increases at alarming rate
          • Migrants: MSF and MOAS rescue 369 people during first rescue
          • Migrants: MSF and MOAS to launch Mediterranean search, rescue and medical aid operation
          • Migrants: MSF calls for large scale search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean
          • Migration: EU leaders orchestrating humanitarian crisis on Europe’s shores
          • Migration: Saddened by loss of life during rescue
          • Myanmar seeks new ways to tackle urgent health threat of drug-resistant TB
          • Myanmar: Government restrictions severely impacting access to healthcare in Rakhine State
          • Myanmar: Humanitarian emergency in Rakhine state
          • Myanmar: International humanitarian access to Rakhine state must urgently be permitted
          • Myanmar: MSF acknowledges encouraging dialogue on Rakhine but clinics remain closed
          • Myanmar: MSF concerned about the fate of thousands of patients after being ordered to cease activities
          • Myanmar: MSF to resume HIV/AIDS and all other activities in Kachin, Shan and Yangon but concerns remain
          • Myanmar: MSF treats first patients for neglected opportunistic disease
          • Myanmar: MSF welcomes offer to resume operations in Rakhine but remains cautious
          • New surgical unit opens to treat Mosul’s war-wounded
          • Niger: Impending threat of deadly malaria and malnutrition combination
          • Niger: MSF assists victims of new wave of violence in Diffa region
          • Nigeria: At least 24,000 displaced face dire health situation in Borno State
          • Nigeria: Disastrous living conditions more deadly than violence
          • Nigeria: Environmental cleaning of the earth starts in Bagega village
          • Nigeria: Health disaster in Borno State with high rates of malnutrition
          • Nigeria: Lead poisoning crisis in Zamfara State
          • Nigeria: Lead-poisoning remediation finally begins
          • Nigeria: MSF finally able to start treating lead poisoned children in Bagega
          • Nigeria: MSF suspends medical activities in Rann
          • Nigeria: MSF warns of large-scale humanitarian disaster
          • Nigeria: People fleeing Boko Haram violence hit by cholera
          • Obstacle course to Europe: EU policies dramatically worsened the 2015 refugee crisis
          • Open Letter to All States and Non-State Actors Involved in the Syrian Conflict
          • PRESS RELEASE: World Health Assembly - decisive step towards more affordable vaccines
          • Pakistan: Health structures and services in Bajaur must be respected
          • Pakistan: MSF concerned for people's safety as blasts rip through the country
          • Pakistan: MSF opens new clinic in Karachi
          • Pakistan: MSF treats wounded from bomb blast in Hangu
          • Pakistan: Medical work needs to be respected
          • Papua New Guinea: 'Return to Abuser' report reveals cycle of abuse for survivors of violence
          • Pfizer drops the price of its pneumonia vaccine
          • Proposed shake-up to drug pricing framework risks middle-income countries paying more
          • Refugee crisis: MSF and Greenpeace launch life-saving operations in the Aegean Sea
          • Refugee crisis: MSF granted permission for new camp in northern France
          • Rwanda: MSF’s internal struggle to position itself in the face of genocide
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