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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 […]

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

Opinion: “IHL Simply Ensures Some Humanity Prevails, Even in Times of War”

The speech below was given by Humanitarian Affairs Specialist Michiel […]

AID ENVIRONMENT

I’m a Humanitarian. Don’t Prosecute Me for Doing My Job

Why this aid worker is testifying today against a proposed […]

HEALTH POLICY

An Agenda to Tackle the Politics of Real Problems and Real People

Implementation of the universal healthcare agenda requires the efforts of […]

AID ENVIRONMENT

Medical Humanitarian Needs in a Changing Political and Aid Environment

The delivery of humanitarian aid, the way in which the […]

AID ENVIRONMENT

Saving Limbs as a Medical Act of Humanitarian Defiance

One year after the Great March of Return began, health […]

HEALTH POLICY

HIV Progress Curbed as Donor Commitments Continue to Shrink

This week the AIDS2018 Conference in Amsterdam kicked off with […]

AID ENVIRONMENT

Humanitarian Drones: Useful Tool, Toxic Image

Drones do not have a good reputation. Yet there are numerous useful applications of such technology for humanitarian purposes: conflict zones, and other difficult-to-reach places when disaster strikes, could be […]

AID ENVIRONMENT

The Politics of Health in Counterterrorism Operations

In the early morning hours of October 3, 2015, a […]

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