Urgent need for water and sanitation among people fleeing violence in Haiti’s capital
The need for treated water and sanitation facilities in displacement sites and violence-affected neighborhoods is far beyond what MSF can provide.
Avril Benoît of
@DoctorsWithoutBorders speaks with
@AxiosNews about the neglected
#humanitarian crisis brought on by one full year of war in
#Sudan: "We don't see the escalation of the humanitarian response. We don't see real pressure being brought to bear on the belligerents to facilitate the aid ... That's the heartbreaking part."
#news #press #podcast #podcasts https://www.axios.com/2024/04/18/hospitals-war-humanitarian-law-doctors-without-borders
Avril Benoît: Is ignoring humanitarian law the new norm?
Avril Benoît of Doctors Without Borders on how ignoring humanitarian law is becoming the new norm?
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@DoctorsWithoutBorders clinic is the only medical facility serving hundreds of thousands of displaced people in North
#Darfur #Sudan. Hear from our team working in this neglected
#humanitarian crisis:
#press #news #cnn @CNN https://www.threads.net/@cnn/post/C3p30eVCs3hIn the midst of the war in
#Sudan, a
@DoctorsWithoutBorders team surveyed one camp of displaced people in North
#Darfur and estimated that 13 children are dying there per day of malnutrition and related health conditions. This is an urgent and neglected crisis.
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/children-are-dying-malnutrition-catastrophic-rate-north-darfur-camp #humanitarian #globalhealth #press #news
Children are dying from malnutrition at a catastrophic rate in North Darfur camp
MSF calls for urgent, mass mobilization of international community to save lives.
#War in #Sudan displaced more than 7 million people last year.
MSF's Jerome Tubiana writes that "some of the Sudanese forces that benefited from Europe’s financial (or at least political) support to fight migration are now fighting each other, and provoking new #refugee flows" @DoctorsWithoutBorders @foreignpolicy https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/08/sudan-darfur-refugee-crisis-eu-migration/
Europe Is Making the Sudan Refugee Crisis Worse
Faced with an indisputable emergency, the EU is erecting new barriers and ignoring its asylum obligations.
MSF report exposes spiraling ethnic violence against people in Darfur
Refugees who have fled West Darfur over the last six months describe lootings, sexual violence, and massacres targeting the Masalit people.
Physiotherapy and mental health support for Ukraine’s war-wounded
A surge in patients with amputations and complex injuries has created a critical need for physiotherapists to provide post-operative rehabilitation care.
@DoctorsWithoutBorders is indefinitely suspending all activities at Turgeau Emergency Center, one of the medical facilities it operates in Port-au-Prince,
#Haiti, after a group of armed men stopped an MSF ambulance and seized and killed a patient. Thoughts with everyone affected by violence in Haiti.
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/haiti-ambulance-attack-forces-msf-suspend-activities-turgeau 
Haiti: Ambulance attack forces MSF to suspend activities at Turgeau
The indefinite suspension will allow for an analysis of the attack on Turgeau Emergency Center and a reevaluation of risks for staff and patients.
A team from
@DoctorsWithoutBorders assessed health needs in a northwestern Burkina Faso town affected by armed conflict. The levels of malnutrition among young children signal a
#humanitarian emergency
#news #press #africa https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/burkina-faso-malnutrition-surges-among-children-trapped-conflict
Burkina Faso: Malnutrition surges among children trapped by conflict
Escalating conflict in Burkina Faso has caused a dire humanitarian situation for communities caught in the crossfire, especially for children who face rising malnutrition rates.
"Medical facilities are supposed to be places where lives are saved, not taken."
@DoctorsWithoutBorders teams directly witnessed deadly attacks on two Ukrainian hospitals just this month.
Abhorrent.
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/ukraine-msf-teams-witness-attacks-two-hospitals #humanitarian #news #press #ukraine
Ukraine: MSF teams witness attacks on two hospitals
MSF condemns recent missile and artillery strikes and calls for the protection of medical facilities.
