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Fadi is the sixth MSF staff member who has been killed in Gaza since 7 October and one of 500 health workers killed by the Israeli forces during the same time according to the United Nations.

Nearly 20 per cent of Rohingya refugees tested in the camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, have an active hepatitis C infection. This alarming figure from a recent study carried out by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Epicentre, the epidemiology and medical research arm of MSF, highlights the consequences of decades of inadequate healthcare and difficult living conditions, characterised by violence, discrimination and insecurity. 

The extreme escalation of conflict, indiscriminate violence, and severe restrictions on humanitarian access in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, have forced Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to suspend medical humanitarian activities in the townships of Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw. 

Following heavy Israeli ground and air strikes on 8-9 June, Al-Aqsa hospital is overcrowded with hundreds of wounded—mostly women and children. Bec Smith, a nurse from Broome, West Australia, is currently in Gaza working as a nursing activity manager. Here she describes the traumatic situation in which she and her colleagues are working.

In Jenin and Tulkarem, Israeli forces render healthcare inaccessible when it is needed the most.

MSF warns that hospitals continue to be attacked, and that no outside help can reach the city due to the intensity of the violence.

Healing psychological trauma in Gaza cannot happen until there is a ceasefire.

In South Sudan, over seven million people are expected to face acute food insecurity or worse between now and July. Among them, patients who are infected with tuberculosis and HIV are highly impacted since the intensity of the treatment is very hard to bear on an empty stomach. Some of them endure severe pain, while others decide to reduce or even stop the medication to make it more bearable; putting their lives at risk. 

On the morning of Saturday 8 June 2024, Israeli forces heavily bombed the Middle Area of the Gaza Strip, including Al-Nuseirat refugee camp. MSF's Dr Hazem Maloh recalls that horrific and traumatising day when he lost many of his friends and neighbours. 

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to trigger huge population displacements. The displacement crisis in DRC is one of the longest and largest in the world, with around seven million people currently displaced.