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![A woman walks past building damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. The surrounded southern city of Mariupol, where the war has produced some of the greatest human suffering, remained cut off despite earlier talks on creating aid or evacuation convoys.](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_desktop/public/images/Ukraine_MSB120802.jpg?itok=q98e_yRh)
Conflict
Armed conflict devastates lives. Targeted, harassed and trapped within hardship and poverty; people are often forced into flight. In other cases, people live under siege or in constant fear of indiscriminate or even targeted attacks. In addition, people are often left impoverished without sufficient access to basic needs like food and medical care.
Comprehensive medical and humanitarian support is vital, but health services are often scarce. In conflict zones, we do not take sides.
We provide care based on needs alone and work to reach those who require medical attention, regardless of which side of the frontline they happen to be.
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Conflict and Health
Conflict and health
HOW DOES CONFLICT DAMAGE NATIONAL HEALTH?
Armed conflict causes injury, displacement and death. Even after the guns have fallen silent, conflict continues to affect people’s health.
It devastates essential health services, disrupts medical supplies, forces medical staff to flee and leaves health systems broken, so when deadly diseases arrive they’re even harder to fight.
For people caught up in violence or its aftermath, it is more important than ever to have access to healthcare, shelter, sanitation and food.
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Voices from the field
You can still see a lot of anger and pain in people’s eyes wherever you go.ABDULRAHMAN DHANNOON KHALEEL, MSF PROJECT COORDINATOR SUPPORT
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![View of reception center at crossing point in the town of Hrebenne, Poland, which lies on the border between Lublin (Poland) and Lviv (Ukraine). The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than a half a million people had fled Ukraine since the conflict started.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_half/public/images/Ukraine_MSB119167_0.jpg?itok=jXmXHCeA)
How MSF is trying to access the areas most affected by fighting
![View of the temporary accommodation site in Korczowa, southeastern Poland, for people who fled Ukraine because of the conflict.](/sites/default/files/styles/card_half/public/images/Ukraine_conflict_Korczowa_temprary_acommodation_MSB119168.jpg?itok=6U8Wb4py)
MSF mobilises response in Ukraine and nearby countries
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Our teams are looking into how they can adapt MSF's activities to respond in Ukraine
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MSF team helps treat injured children after the bombing of a village on Nigerian border
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