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MSF Analysis

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 […]

MISCELLANEOUS

The Disease of Settler Colonialism and Apartheid

When a rubber bullet pierces the eye of a child in occupied East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood and when a woman is doused in “skunk water”, a cocktail of chemicals […]

HEALTH POLICY

UN HIV Declaration Must Throw a Lifeline to People With Advanced HIV Disease

Can we do what needs to be done to stop […]

HEALTH POLICY

Why Community-Led HIV responses need increased support in West and Central Africa

The West and Central Africa region continues to lag behind […]

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 […]

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