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31 / 05 / 2021

Innovation: A New Way To Manage Menstrual Hygiene In A Humanitarian Crisis?

Chiara Domenichini
Access to good menstrual hygiene is key to women’s health and wellbeing. But too often in humanitarian crises their needs go unmet. Can an innovative approach find a culturally appropriate solution to this problem?
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05 / 03 / 2021

Severe malnutrition on the rise among children in Abs, northern Yemen

Muriel Boursier
Hamdi is not yet two years old, but this is already his second time as a patient at the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Abs Hospital, in northern Yemen. The first time he was five months old.
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19 / 10 / 2020

I helped to rescue people from the Mediterranean. This is what they told me.

Ilina Angelova
Ilina Angelova was the humanitarian affairs officer for MSF on board the search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 in August and September 2020.
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06 / 10 / 2020

"They asked me to tell their story"

Marianna Cortesi
The heavy clashes that erupted in and around Lashkar Gah city on 11 October so far show no signs of abating. The main trauma hospital for war-wounded, run by another medical organisation, remains under pressure.
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15 / 09 / 2020

Beating the snake: COVID-19 health promotion in Pakistan

Seinn Seinn Min
With a COVID-19 lockdown in place, Seinn Seinn and the team have to find new ways to reach the community. But as she explains, necessity truly is "the mother of invention."Halfway into my first assignment with MSF, a pandemic broke out. 
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07 / 09 / 2020

Quarantine Blues: Remembering my good old days in Pakistan

Seinn Seinn Min
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Seinn Seinn Min is a health promoter with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who has recently returned from a posting in Pakistan. She shares her experience…I am writing from Myanmar, inside the hotel room assigned to me for quarantine.
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30 / 06 / 2020

"No one chooses to be a refugee"

巴特尔米
Barthelemy is a Burundian refugee and staff member with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Nduta camp, northwestern Tanzania, where MSF is the sole healthcare provider for 75,000 refugees.
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20 / 06 / 2020

Give Me Hope: Depicting the Rohingya crisis through animation

Dalila Mahdawi
In 2017, the world’s attention focused on Myanmar’s Rohingya, ethnic Muslims who are today the largest stateless group in the world.
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21 / 05 / 2020

“The catastrophe we all feared is here": What it is like to treat COVID-19 in Aden

Dr Ghazali Mohammed Babiker
We at MSF have seen many things while working in Aden: we kept our hospital open during the darkest days of fighting in 2015, and are used to receiving hundreds of wounded in just a few hours, like we did last August.
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