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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says Afghanistan is “one of the riskiest places to be a pregnant woman or a young child”. Credit: DVIDSHUB/CC-BY-2.0 By Karlos Zurutuza KABUL, Sep 16 2014 (IPS) Nasrin Mohamadi, a mother of four, has promised herself never...

Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti SPARKLING WHITE WALLS, palm trees, and a gazebo paint a serene mask on the hospital in Gressier, an oceanfront town 22 kilometers south of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. “At first look you see it’s beautiful...

And much, much more. . . We begin with a shrieking alarm, via the Guardian: WHO warns 10,000 new cases of Ebola a week are possible UN agency says fatality rate at 70% and that ‘a lot more people will die’ unless world steps up its response to crisis...

Those providing health care in contested areas in Afghanistan say they are feeling under increasing pressure from all sides in the war. There have been two egregious attacks on medical facilities in the last six months: the summary execution of two patients...