Press Conference: The Human Cost of Conflict and Violence in Sudan
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) cordially invites you to a press conference on Monday, 22 July 2024, at 10:00 AM CET, to discuss the release of its latest report on the acute humanitarian crisis in Sudan, ‘A War on People: The Human Cost of Conflict and Violence in Sudan’.
The report will unveil the results of months of research and interviews with MSF patients and staff detailing how the violence inflicted by the warring parties had impacted their lives, their livelihoods, and their health. The report will feature data collected from MSF facilities that will give an indicator of the war’s harrowing effects on the communities.
Sudan is currently the world’s largest and fastest-growing displacement crisis, and MSF is one of the few international organisations working in territory held by both warring parties in an environment marred with insecurity and systemic blockages of humanitarian scale-up to reach the people who need assistance the most.
Speakers:
Vicky Hawkins, MSF General Director
Enass Abu Khalaf, MSF Director of Communications
Registration: Please fill in your details through this link and join the Zoom webinar at least five minutes before the press conference starts.
The press conference will also be streamed on YouTube using the following link:
YouTube Live StreamAbout Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a global network of principled medical and other professionals who specialise in medical humanitarian work, driven by our common humanity and guided by medical ethics. We strive to bring emergency medical care to people caught in conflicts, crises, and disasters in more than 70 countries worldwide.
In South Africa, the organisation is recognised as one of the pioneers in providing antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the public sector. It started the first HIV programme in South Africa in 1999. Until today, the focus of MSF’s interventions in the country has primarily been on developing new testing and treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS and TB in Eshowe (Kwa-Zulu Natal) and Khayelitsha (Western Cape).
In Tshwane, we run a migration project, and we offer medical and psychosocial care to migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who struggle to access public health services under South Africa’s increasingly restrictive.
Previously, we offered free, high-quality, confidential medical care to survivors of SGBV in Rustenburg.
To learn more about our work in South Africa, please visit this page on our website (www.msf.org.za). To support MSF’s work:
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