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Welcome to MSF-Analysis

MSF-Analysis is a platform for the sharing of critical analysis on the politics of health and humanitarianism. This website promotes the candid reflection on both MSF’s operations and the wider […]

MIGRATION AND REFUGEES

Fire in Moria – If the Only Way to Break Free Is to Burn Down Your House, Something Is Very Wrong

This Oped was published in The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/moria-fire-refugee-camp-asylum-seekers-coronavirus-lesbos-greece-eu-b446213.html Commenting […]

ACCESS

Responding to COVID-19 in Conflicts: Difficult but Necessary

This article was originally published by Humanitarian Alternatives, an international […]

HEALTH POLICY

Policing the Pandemic: Melbourne’s Public Housing Lockdown Criminalizes Those on the Margins

Last Saturday morning, I woke up in Brussels to messages […]

MISCELLANEOUS

UN Security Council Votes for 90-Day COVID-19 Ceasefire. But Only for Nice Wars.

The United Nations Security Council, so far loudly silent about […]

ACCESS

Covid-19: When Saving Fewer Lives Is the Right Thing to Do

This article was originally published by The New Humanitarian, a […]

ACCESS

The Oxygen Divide

Ventilators for Europeans, Soap for Africans? One of the more common platitudes about Covid-19 is the myth of the Coronavirus as ‘the great leveler’, infecting world leaders and bus drivers […]

AID ENVIRONMENT

Playing Politics With a Pandemic

On 25 March 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that “The Iranian regime kicked out Doctors without Borders @MSF, which was setting up a field hospital for Iran’s […]

AID ENVIRONMENT

Bracing for Impact of COVID-19

How are you supposed to wash your hands regularly if you have no running water or soap? How can you implement ‘social distancing’ if you live in a slum or […]

AID ENVIRONMENT

Ebola Healthcare at Gunpoint – the New Normal?

The latest deadly attacks on Ebola response teams in eastern DRC were horrific. Assailants killed four people and injured others in Biakato Mines and Mangina on 28 November. MSF condemns […]

AID ENVIRONMENT