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Tim K Shenk

Senior Communications Officer, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-USA. Opinions mine. Follow us at @DoctorsWithoutBorders

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2024-08-13

More than half a million people are now displaced by violence in Water and sanitation are among the most urgent needs. An update from @DoctorsWithoutBorders doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2024-04-18

Avril Benoît of @DoctorsWithoutBorders speaks with @AxiosNews about the neglected crisis brought on by one full year of war in : "We don't see the escalation of the humanitarian response. We don't see real pressure being brought to bear on the belligerents to facilitate the aid ... That's the heartbreaking part." axios.com/2024/04/18/hospitals

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2024-02-27

A @DoctorsWithoutBorders clinic is the only medical facility serving hundreds of thousands of displaced people in North . Hear from our team working in this neglected crisis: @CNN threads.net/@cnn/post/C3p30eVC

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2024-02-05

In the midst of the war in , a @DoctorsWithoutBorders team surveyed one camp of displaced people in North and estimated that 13 children are dying there per day of malnutrition and related health conditions. This is an urgent and neglected crisis. doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2024-01-10

in displaced more than 7 million people last year.

MSF's Jerome Tubiana writes that "some of the Sudanese forces that benefited from Europe’s financial (or at least political) support to fight migration are now fighting each other, and provoking new flows" @DoctorsWithoutBorders @foreignpolicy foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/08/s

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2024-01-09

A
@DoctorsWithoutBorders retrospective mortality survey found that deaths in West increased dramatically among communities that were targeted by attacks last year. Our press release: doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2024-01-03

Amid the ongoing war with , has become the most heavily mined country on earth. An update on the growing need for for war-wounded patients: doctorswithoutborders.org/late @DoctorsWithoutBorders

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-12-14

@DoctorsWithoutBorders is indefinitely suspending all activities at Turgeau Emergency Center, one of the medical facilities it operates in Port-au-Prince, , after a group of armed men stopped an MSF ambulance and seized and killed a patient. Thoughts with everyone affected by violence in Haiti. doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-11-28

A team from @DoctorsWithoutBorders assessed health needs in a northwestern Burkina Faso town affected by armed conflict. The levels of malnutrition among young children signal a emergency doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-11-27

"Medical facilities are supposed to be places where lives are saved, not taken."

@DoctorsWithoutBorders teams directly witnessed deadly attacks on two Ukrainian hospitals just this month.

Abhorrent.

doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-10-30

@DoctorsWithoutBorders evacuated 150 patients from a hospital in 's region at the request of regional health authorities. Increased shelling has put patients in danger. "The morning of the evacuation, there was heavy shelling.... Fortunately, we managed to safely get all the patients to other health facilities where they can continue to receive the care they need.” doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-10-19

@DoctorsWithoutBorders is providing 80% of the water for approximately 200,000 from who are staying in camps in Adre, eastern Chad. It is not nearly enough. Our statement: doctorswithoutborders.org/late @sudanwarmonitor

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-10-12

6 months into the in with no end in sight, the failure to meet rising medical needs is catastrophic, @DoctorsWithoutBorders says: doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-09-28

More than 4 million people are now displaced within due to a conflict that is not even six months old. A @DoctorsWithoutBorders staff member, herself displaced, looks at the crisis from the camps in White Nile state: doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-09-26

A sobering @WSJ report on aid cuts ...
"In Chad, which hosts over 410,000 Sudanese refugees, aid group @DoctorsWithoutBorders said some camps hadn’t received food rations from U.N. agencies since mid-August and desperate mothers were feeding their children insects, grass and leaves." wsj.com/world/africa/children-

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-09-21

is in the midst of a catastrophic health crisis. interrupted, people cut off from water and sanitation, disturbing rise in , acute watery , malaria, . @DoctorsWithoutBorders statement at doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-09-18

@Kaetchi @DoctorsWithoutBorders Yes, it's very important to increase vaccination coverage in Nigeria.

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-09-18

@DoctorsWithoutBorders is responding to an enormous outbreak in northern .

Diphtheria can kill half of people who are infected if they don’t receive proper treatment. Even with treatment, diphtheria is still fatal for 5%.

Responding to the outbreak has proven challenging due to a worldwide shortage of diphtheria antitoxin caused by dwindling production capacity.

doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-09-12

On Saturday and Sunday, @DoctorsWithoutBorders teams treated more than 100 people wounded in deadly attacks on residential areas of , which killed at least 49 people. "It's horrific that residential areas, such as homes and markets, are being hit." Our release: doctorswithoutborders.org/late

Tim K Shenktimkshenk
2023-08-31

"We have people dying on boats."

More than 245,000 people have fled to since conflict erupted in . and are at alarming levels. @DoctorsWithoutBorders medical teams are calling for more organizations to respond in Upper Nile: doctorswithoutborders.org/late

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