🚨 MSF International’s team in Bashair Hospital in south Khartoum is seeing rising numbers in the emergency room – a 14% increase in 3 weeks. Yet medical teams are hampered in their work by recurring security incidents and intimidation in the wards by armed RSF combatants. #TalkAboutSudan

On this Int’l Day of the Victims of #EnforcedDisappearances, we think about the thousands of persons missing in #Syria and recall the creation of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria #IIMP. Families have the right to know the fate of their missing loved ones!

A #Syrian refugee in his 60s who has a successful business in Cairo returned last month to his homeland, after he was assured that he was clear. He disappeared after a few days and no one knows where is whereabouts. He joined 157,000 Syrians who disappeared in Syrian prisons

🛬Are you travelling to or returning from a country affected by #Mpox? Make sure you're aware of the precautions you need to take, and what to do if you develop symptoms when you return. Before travelling, check Travel Health Pro: bit.ly/3XffW5e

On this International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, SETF stands with the families of over 157,000 Syrians who have been forcibly disappeared since the start of the revolution 13 years ago.

With 20 out of 36 Gaza hospitals non-functional, we recently set up a field hospital in central Gaza. This is a last resort measure to provide medical care. Without an immediate and sustained ceasefire, there can be no meaningful humanitarian response. msf.org/al-aqsa-hospit…

At least 113,218 individuals, incl. 3,129 children and 6,712 women, of those arrested by the parties to the conflict in #Syria from March 2011 to August 2024 still forcibly disappeared #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared #SNHR Full report: snhr.org/?p=72189

Only 16 hospitals out of 36 are still functioning in Gaza. With Al-Aqsa hospital under threat of attack, we’ve quickly opened a field hospital. We call on all parties to protect the last remaining hospitals.

Have you ever wondered what is mpox❔🤔 It’s a contagious viral illness that can be fatal if untreated, spreading through close contact and causing rashes, lesions, and pain. Learn more, including how our teams respond to outbreaks, including in DRC ⬇️ msf.org/mpox

Boys and girls around the region are going back to UNRWA schools except in #Gaza. More than 600,000 children there are deeply traumatized, living in the rubble. They continue to be deprived of learning + schooling. Half of them used to be in UNRWA schools. The longer children

Inviting Roger Waters/Aaron Maté to this event is a stain on the Palestinian movement These 2 claim to defend the children of Gaza while actively covering up Assad's mass-murder of Syrians & Palestinians You cannot do both, only the ignorant can believe this, but they are many.

The CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict, and Forced Displacement is now online! Follow us for insights, updates, and discussions at the intersection of health, conflict, and humanitarian response. 🌍💡 To learn more about the Commission, explore: thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Thrilled to launch this Commission. It aims to rethink and reimagine the strategies, governance, and delivery modes of humanitarian aid. JHU Humanitarian Health

‼️Breaking‼️ 1/7 New report from Human Rights Watch finds #Lebanon and #Cyprus pulled back, expelled and forced refugees back to Syria, underwritten by funding from the #EuropeanUnion for so-called "border management" projects. The EU should stop outsourcing abuses. hrw.org/news/2024/09/0…

"We expect the first delivery of vaccines to arrive in DRC tomorrow", says World Health Organization (WHO)'s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in update on the #mpox situation. These are the vaccines donated by the EU Commission. "DRC's ministry of health plans to begin deploying the vaccines this weekend."

"This was my seventh war with MSF". Dr Javid Abdelmoneim has worked on medical projects in several conflicts. He sees the situation in Gaza as unique, as people are unable to move to safety & the health system has been dismantled. Here he speaks to BBC News (World) about his experience.

Very welcomed news that vaccines for #mpox have arrived in the #DRC. World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting the DRC and partners on their use in at risk populations in combination with other interventions. Thanks to those coming forward & working with us, partners and countries to donate vaccines.

Early this morning, an Israeli strike hit a displacement site within the compound of the MSF-supported Al Aqsa hospital in Deir El Balah, central Gaza. According to the Ministry of Health, four people were killed, and 16 were wounded and treated at the hospital.

Awful to see the killing of #healthworkers & #laboratory specialists alongside the destruction of the #healthsystem esp at a time when #infectious diseases are rife risking the lives of #children #NotaTarget GazaMedicVoices Insecurity Insight Physicians for Human Rights Health Professionals for Global Health

Gaza update: Early this morning, an Israeli strike hit a displacement camp within the MSF-supported Al-Aqsa Hospital compound in Deir al Balah. According to the Ministry of Health, four people were killed, and 16 were wounded and treated at the hospital. This is the fifth