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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. 

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

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. 

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

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.

MSF inpatient facilities in northern Nigeria have recorded an extraordinary increase in admissions of severely malnourished children with life-threatening complications, with two times more admissions than last year in some locations. 

Hospitals hit and death toll soars as violent fighting engulfs El Fasher, Sudan, leaving nowhere safe in the city; MSF calls urgently for protection of civilians, health workers and health structures.

“No single health care facility in Gaza can handle a mass casualty event such as this one.”

In recent years, both increased flooding and more severe droughts have made food and water scarce, with cattle keepers and farmers moving farther from functional healthcare facilities and medical care.