Robin Meldrum

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Health Surveys Reveal Need for Increased Aid in Southern Syria

December 20, 2017

Humanitarian assistance for people living in southern Syria needs to increase significantly, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today, as it released two reports on the health of people in the war-torn area of eastern Daraa.
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Pakistan: MSF Forced to Close Health Services in Kurram Agency

September 14, 2017

After 14 years in Kurram district, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is withdrawing from the area. Without providing any explanation, authorities have refused to issue a No Objection Certificate (NOC). With no valid NOC, MSF cannot continue medical activities in Kurram Agency.
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Afghanistan: MSF Reopens Khost Maternity Hospital

January 02, 2013

KABUL/KHOST, AFGHANISTAN January 2, 2013—The international independent medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has resumed activities at its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April 2012.
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Low-Cost Health Interventions Drastically Reducing Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone and Burundi

November 25, 2012

Ensuring pregnant women have timely access to emergency obstetric care has reduced maternal deaths by as much as 74 percent in parts of Burundi and Sierra Leone.

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Egypt: MSF Providing Maternal and Child Health Care Near Cairo

November 13, 2012

MSF is providing health care to mothers and children on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital.

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Afghanistan: MSF to Resume Medical Activities in Khost

October 17, 2012

MSF will resume medical activities in its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April 2012.

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Afghanistan: Medical Care Suspended in Khost After Attack on MSF Hospital

April 17, 2012

MSF suspended activities in its recently-opened maternity hospital in Afghanistan's Khost Province after an explosion inside the compound injured seven people, including one child.

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Maternal Death: The Avoidable Crisis

March 06, 2012

Every 90 seconds a woman dies from childbirth or from a pregnancy-related complication; hundreds of thousands of lives can be saved.

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Afghanistan: MSF Opens Maternity Hospital in Khost

March 05, 2012

MSF has opened a new maternity hospital in eastern Khost province to provide pregnant women with high-quality care.

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South Sudan: MSF Staff and Patients Forced to Flee Hospital

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN, JANUARY 31, 2014 – Insecurity in South Sudan's Unity State has forced thousands of people to flee into the bush, including patients and more than two hundred South Sudanese staff members from a hospital run by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the group said today.