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Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, and more; health facilities have been attacked, looted and destroyed.

Patients have been killed in their beds; health workers have been attacked as they rescued the wounded. A hospital is where the most vulnerable, the sick and injured, gather in times of war. Attacks against medical facilities and health workers, whether deliberate or indiscriminate, are part of generalised violence and atrocities committed against civilians in armed conflict. They deprive people of health services, often when they need them the most.

 
Giving birth in Dasht-e-Barchi
Afghanistan

Patients face persistent insecurity amid “peace process”

Project Update 16 Dec 2020
 
Emergency Malaria Outbreak South Kivu DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC: Violent attacks against staff force MSF to end projects in Fizi territory, South Kivu

Press Release 1 Dec 2020
 
Anti-migrant attack on health facilities outside Moria camp, Lesbos, Greece
Greece

MSF statement on violent 20 August protest in Moria

Statement 21 Aug 2020
 
MSF Clinic: inpatient department and surgical capacity, Gogrial, Warrap State. South Sudan
Nigeria

MSF condemns the killing of five aid workers in northeast Nigeria

Statement 23 Jul 2020
 
Giving birth in DeB
Afghanistan

MSF withdraws from Dasht-e-Barchi following attack on patients and staff

Press Release 15 Jun 2020
 
Giving birth in DeB
Afghanistan

“As midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country.”

Voices from the Field 10 Jun 2020
 
Revolting attack on pregnant women and babies
Afghanistan

Fifteen mothers confirmed killed in Kabul maternity wing attack

Project Update 3 Jun 2020
 
Pibor-Thousands flee into the bush as conflict intensifies
Sudan

MSF urges respect for medical action after violent incursion in Central Darfur

Statement 15 May 2020
 
Revolting attack on pregnant women and babies
Afghanistan

“They came to kill the mothers” in Kabul maternity hospital attack

Voices from the Field 14 May 2020
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