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“All I want is to be able to live decently”
A growing number of Lebanese people have been knocking on MSF clinics’ doors over the past year, unable to cover their medical fees anymore - particularly in remote areas. In our clinic in Hermel, in the northern part of the Bekaa Valley, the number of Lebanese patients with non-communicable diseases requesting our services more than doubled between 2019 and 2020.
Malawi is overwhelmed by second wave of COVID-19
After being relatively spared by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Malawi is now being swept by a new, fast-spreading wave of the disease that is quickly overwhelming the healthcare system. In the first few weeks of January 2021, the number of people confirmed with the disease has doubled every four to five days, and while the local capacity is already saturated, access to vaccines is likely a few months away. MSF responded to a call by the health authorities in Blantyre, and launched emergency activities to tackle the exponential increase in the number of severe patients in the area.
Displaced people in Bouar living amid fear and growing needs
People in the town of Bouar, in western Central African Republic (CAR), have been living in fear since the end of December, when the town became one of the theatres for the latest cycle of violence in the country. A coalition of armed groups and the government, supported by its international allies, are clashing.
“At the end of the month, there’s no money left for medicine”
Read the story of Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who lives with his family in an informal tented settlement in the outskirts of Arsal, in the Bekaa Valley.
COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling
The health system in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in northwestern Brazil, has collapsed for the second time. Although hospitals have been adding COVID-19 bed capacity at an astonishing rate, the numbers of new patients with the coronavirus have continued to grow even faster, meaning the entire health system is saturated and overloaded.
1/21/2021
The knock-on effects of COVID-19
In many places, the devastating knock-on effects of the pandemic have left people without lifesaving assistance.
Opinions and debates1/19/2021
MSF's wish list for 2021
Over the past extraordinary year, we were all touched by one of the greatest global health emergencies in decades.
Overlapping crises in Lebanon increase needs and worsen access to care
Since late 2019, Lebanon has been grappling with its worst economic crisis in decades, social unrest and political turmoil. On top of that, and following the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of 2020, a major explosion tore through the capital, Beirut, in August.
“These sanctions have to make clear that they do not apply to humanitarian aid”
As the United States prepares to designate Ansar Allah a 'foreign terrorist organisation' in Yemen, there are concerns about the impact on providing assistance in the country.