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Access to Healthcare
Unmerited Pfizer patent on pneumonia vaccine limits access for children
Press Release
20 Nov 2017
Antibiotic resistance
Drug-resistant infections are a looming challenge around the world
Project Update
16 Nov 2017
France
Critical situation for refugees and migrants stuck on Paris streets as winter approaches
Press Release
16 Nov 2017
Syria
“During the battle for Raqqa, nobody cared about the civilians”
Voices from the Field
15 Nov 2017
![Babucar Njie, 25, Gambia
I left Gambia due to the conditions at home. I went from Senegal to Mali, then to Burkina Faso, then Niger.
From Niger some smugglers brought us to Algeria. There we were taken to a house and told we had to pay 15,000 in Gambian money [approx 300 euros]. They made us call our family to send the money. Some of my Gambian brothers they knew a way to escape so I followed them and we made it to Tamanrasset [in Algeria]. There we were kidnapped again, and again we had the same problem; they wanted money. This time we had no way to escape so my family had to pay.
They beat people if they don’t call their family. If your parents don’t pay they beat you and call them so they can hear the way you’re crying. After that, I was taken to Sabratah, in Libya: that place is more wicked than any other place. They didn’t even give us proper water to drink and the Libyans were rude. Sometimes they would go and drink [alcohol] and come and start beating everybody.
I was living in a connection house with two or three hundreds people. It was horrible, there was no window and we slept on the floor. I had to work to receive food, then my parents sent the money for the boat. One morning they said, “Your boat is ready.” When I saw it, it was a plastic boat and I thought, ‘I’m not getting in this,’ but there are guys with guns so you just go. There’s no way back. We were packed into it, the fuel was making everyone sick. The boat was going up and down some people were crying, at any minute we could have died.
For us Europe is better than everything. There is hope there, but I have a younger brother and if he wants to come this way I will tell him no. If I had known all I had to pass through I would have stayed in Gambia.](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/20f4rm5ugup43riou0g8x5kcpv1nro3e.jpg "The Crossing 01")
Russia
Tuberculosis treatments yield promising results in the Chechen Republic
Voices from the Field
10 Nov 2017
Pakistan
Closure of MSF project in northwest will leave thousands without healthcare
Statement
10 Nov 2017
Yemen
Saudi coalition urged to immediately allow humanitarian access during blockade
Press Release
8 Nov 2017
Mediterranean migration
Nearly 600 people rescued but unknown number missing presumed drowned
Project Update
3 Nov 2017
Sexual violence
Untreated Violence: Critical gaps in medical and clinical forensic care for survivors of sexual violence in South Africa
org.za
1 Nov 2017
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