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Menstrual hygiene: an innovative approach 1Médecins …

WEBAccess to good menstrual hygiene is key to women’s health and wellbeing. But too often in humanitarian crises, these needs go unmet. Medical coordinator Chiara …

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MSF focus on mental health

WEBMental health conditions are very common. In Australia, a 2022 report stated that two in five (44 per cent, or 8.6 million) Australians aged 16-85 years experienced a mental disorder …

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Stigma and discrimination: Persistent barriers to mental

WEBChallenges to access mental health. At only 18 years, Kevin has been using heroin for one and a half years and is one of 310 patients currently receiving mental healthcare at the …

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Mental health: Looking after our field staff 1Médecins Sans

WEBStaying mentally well is important for everyone, including our staff. They often face pressure from working long hours in emergency or unpredictable settings, and …

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Our approach to mental health care 1Médecins Sans …

WEBOver the past decade, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has shifted its approach to mental health care to integrate it more deliberately in all activities. Today, …

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MSF: Health facilities targeted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

WEBHealth facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, …

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Médecins Sans Frontières Australia Doctors Without …

WEBMédecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) treats people where the need is greatest. We are an international medical humanitarian organisation. We help people …

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Médecins Sans Frontières New Zealand Médecins Sans Frontières

WEBWe are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation. MSF was founded in 1971 in Paris by a group of journalists and doctors. Today, we are a worldwide movement of …

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Medical and related health professions Médecins Sans Frontières

WEBMédecins Sans Frontières employs a range of medical professions. The overall focus of our projects is to reduce mortality and morbidity by providing access to health care to …

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MSF Focus on Haiti

WEBMSF teams have been providing medical care in Haiti for more than 30 years and currently run eight projects throughout the country, in the capital Port-au-Prince as well as the South and Artibonite departments, treating life-threatening emergencies, trauma cases, burns, survivors of sexual violence and providing reproductive care.

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“Let me die with my family”: the story of a Gazan refugee in the …

WEBAbbas* is one of over 6,000 Palestinians from Gaza who used to work in Israel and became refugees in the West Bank as a result of the Israel-Gaza war. Now a patient of MSF …

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MSF Focus on Chad

WEBMSF is present in the east and south of Chad and have an emergency response unit (CERU) capable of delivering medical care in under 72 hours. MSF teams are based in Baga Sola, Bol, Liwa and Kiskawa from where they run several mobile clinics providing basic healthcare and mental health support to the displaced and local population.

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Médecins Sans Frontières launches medical activities in the Pacific

WEBHonorable Minister Dr Tinte Itinteang, Minister of Health and Medical Services, Kiribati (front right), with head of the project for MSF, Fabio Forgione (front left) …

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Kiribati: Where planetary and public health collide

WEBMédecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) officially launched medical activities in the equatorial Pacific island nation of Kiribati in October 2022. Our team …

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Gaza: “Facilities and healthcare workers are being targeted.”

WEBOver the last three months, MSF has been responding to the growing healthcare needs in Gaza and the West Bank, where nearly two million Palestinians are …

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Focus on Zimbabwe

WEBAn MSF team in Hong Kong opened a project at the end of January focusing on health education for vulnerable people. Community engagement is a crucial activity of any outbreak response and in Hong Kong, this focuses on groups who are less likely to have access to important medical information, such as the socio-economically disadvantaged.

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Syria: "Hospitals were full of wounded and dead" 1Médecins Sans

WEBIn Northwest Syria, a largely landlocked region, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams present on the ground have deployed an emergency plan in response to …

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Papua New Guinea’s COVID-19 crisis Médecins Sans Frontières …

WEBUntil early 2021, Papua New Guinea had been largely spared of any major COVID-19 outbreak. But with confirmed COVID-19 cases tripling in March and increasing numbers of healthcare staff testing positive, the situation has become dire. At Rita Flynn hospital in Port Moresby, where MSF is responding, almost 40 per cent of people getting tested are …

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