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Maternity Hospital in Khost, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Treating mums and babies in Khost, Afghanistan

Obstetrician/Gynaecologist Severine Caluwaerts blogs from a maternity hospital in Afghanistan, where MSF is working to provide women with a safe place to give birth. blogs.msf.org - 26 Jan 2018
 
User fees - testimonies from CAR
Access to Healthcare

8 ways user fees for health are harmful to people

When people simply don’t have the means to pay either formal or informal healthcare fees, they are de facto excluded or delayed from receiving care and aren’t treated in time. This can lead to death or complication from treatable diseases such as malaria and can happen even when seemingly small amounts are requested. Project Update - 11 Dec 2017
 
Destroyed Ambulances in East Ghouta, Syria
Global health

MSF urges G20 to take action on health issues

“The G20 leaders need to improve people’s access to medical care and turn their words into action.”
Press Release - 6 Jul 2017
 
International Women's Day 2017
Website

No woman should die to give birth

On International Women's Day, we celebrate the women of Afghanistan and highlight the dangers they face in pregnancy and childbirth iwd2017.msf.org
 
Dr Claire Fotheringham
Afghanistan

Reducing risks for pregnant women

For International Women’s Day 2017, MSF puts the spotlight on pregnancy and childbirth in Afghanistan, one of the world’s most dangerous countries to give birth in. Voices from the Field - 6 Mar 2017
 
International Women's Day 2017
International Women's Day

Safe delivery care in Afghanistan

On International Women’s Day 2017, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) celebrates the women of Afghanistan, and highlights the dangers they face during pregnancy and childbirth. Project Update - 1 Mar 2017
 
MSF-supported hospital in northern Syria destroyed in attack
Attacks on medical care

Hospital bombings: Building evidence with images

Nearly 100 medical facilities belonging to, or supported by, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been bombed since 2015. Project Update - 15 Feb 2017
 
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Afghanistan

Médecins Sans Frontières condemns brutal killing of ICRC staff

"There is no possible justification for such a brutal assault on humanitarian workers," said Joanne Liu, MSF International President. "We condemn this attack and all attacks on humanitarian aid in the strongest possible terms." Statement - 9 Feb 2017
 
Boost Hospital, Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Many of those who left were in critical need of treatment

An account of life in Boost hospital amid armed fighting in Lashkar Gah Voices from the Field - 26 Oct 2016
 
Kunduz Hospital After the Attack
Kunduz hospital attack

Battlefields without doctors, in wars without limits

"We cannot accept that we might be targeted for treating the wounded enemy," says Christopher Stokes, MSF General Director. "We will take our message to those with the fire-power in all of the places where we work. We will continue to demand of the most powerful and their allies that they turn their rhetoric into reality. And we will denounce those who seek to erode the laws of war." Crisis Update - 3 Oct 2016
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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