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01/19/2016
Health facilities have come under attack in Yemen and Syria. If these attacks were intentional, or the result of errors, they deserve our outrage
01/14/2016
Ban Ki-moon delivers a grim take on the state of the world to the U.N. General Assembly as starvation stalks besieged Syrians.
01/13/2016
According to Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF), there have been three attacks in a three-month span on their facilities in Yemen. An October 27th airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition destroyed Haydan hospital. Then, on December 2nd, a Saudi-led strike hit a health facility in Taiz. This past Sunday, January 10th, a Saudi-led coalition projectile hit the MSF-supported Shiara Hospital in Razeh. Combined, these incidents have resulted in significant death, injury, and destruction.
01/11/2016
A hospital in northern Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders was struck by ordnance early Sunday, killing at least four people. At least 10 people were wounded in the latest attack, including three staff members.
01/04/2016
A small band of doctors continues to work in rebel-held Syria, the most bombed patch of territory in the world, where hospitals and doctors’ clinics are specifically targeted for attack
12/28/2015
Shifts In polio vaccination strategies are helping Pakistan improve health workers safety and immunization rates.
12/18/2015
This year has been the worst on record for attacks on medical facilities in Syria, with government forces responsible for most of the 112 attacks.
12/14/2015
In the early hours of 3 October, rockets slammed into a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing at least 14 health workers and injuring 37. An MSF clinic in the southern Yemen city of Taiz was bombed on 2 December, injuring 9 people, including 2 MSF staff. Since 2012, almost 60% of hospitals in Syria have been partially or completely destroyed, and more than half of the country’s health workers have fled or been killed.
12/11/2015
In Yemen, bombs slammed into a tented clinic where Doctors Without Borders was treating people displaced by war in the city of Taiz, wounding nine people, including two clinic staff. The main hospital in the city was hit by rockets in November.