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21 Dec

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In 1971, @MSF was founded on the belief that all people have the right to medical care regardless of gender, race, religion, creed, or political affiliation, and that the needs of these people outweigh national boundaries.

We're looking back at 50 years of humanitarian assistance, bearing witness, and speaking out.
Join us as we journey through history with this selection of photos. #50YearsOfHumanity
Part 2/2 📸⬇

📸1997: In July, MSF became the first foreign aid organisation permitted to visit and respond in northern provinces of North Korea. With crops ruined and the government struggling to supply enough food, many young children were dying of malnutrition.

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20 Dec

We're looking back at 50 years of humanitarian assistance, bearing witness, and speaking out.

Join us as we journey through history with this selection of photos.

Part 1/2📸⬇

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📸 1971: Signing of @MSF's charter in Paris.

MSF is officially created on 22 December 1971. At the time, 300 volunteers make up the organisation: doctors, nurses and other staff, including the 13 founding doctors and journalists.

📸1972: MSF's first mission.

MSF’s first mission is in Managua, Nicaragua's capital, and follows an earthquake which destroyed most of the city. Our medical teams assisted people affected by the earthquake which left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

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28 Apr

⚠Brazilian authorities are still promoting the use of inefficient drugs for the treatment and prevention of #COVID19.

Many people only realise they don’t work when it’s already too late.

This thread explains ⬇

In the North of #Brazil, the “Kit-COVID” is king.

This drug cocktail has been promoted as a panacea by Brazilian authorities since the beginning of the pandemic and includes hydroxychloroquine (an anti-malarial medication), ivermectin (an anti-parasitic) and some antibiotics.

Whilst clinical studies have NOT shown the effectiveness of these drugs in either preventing or treating COVID-19, those that take them have a false sensation of security, believing they are protected from the virus or from severe forms of the disease.

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2 Feb

⚠ People are finding access to healthcare difficult in Tigray, #Ethiopia.

A thread ⬇

From mid-December, we started supporting key hospitals in big towns of #Tigray, such as in Adigrat, Axum and Adwa.

Upon our arrival, most of the facilities were barely functional, had been looted and were lacking medicines and most of the health staff had gone.

We've started to support the most essential medical departments, such as the OT, the maternity or the emergency room, and to refer critical cases.

In recent weeks we also started visiting areas on the outskirts of cities with mobile teams and are reopening some health centers.

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15 Nov 19

Dire living conditions and allegedly violent pushbacks from Croatia, have turned #Bosnia into one of the toughest migration bottlenecks in #Europe. (+)

Almost 4,000 migrants and asylum seekers are trying to survive in abandoned buildings or makeshift shelters around the border cities of Bihac and Velika Kladusa, or in tents in Vucjak camp. (+)

#VucjakCamp is a dangerous and inhumane place.

It was supposed to be a temporary solution to provide shelter to those left outside the official camps.

Currently, it fails to meet any humanitarian standards. (+)

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