On May 11, when the Biden administration ends the COVID-19 public health emergency nationally, Title 42, a public health order used to shut down asylum at the US southern border for more than three years, officially comes to an end. Invoked by the Trump administration in 2020 and repeatedly...
Alicia de la Rosa is a psychologist specializing in animal-assisted psychotherapy. De la Rosa works alongside Onnie, a 4-year-old Labrador Retriever, to provide mental health support to victims of torture and extreme violence at the Comprehensive Care Center in Mexico City. The center has been...
How can a person heal, physically and mentally, after experiencing torture or extreme violence? In July 2017, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened the Comprehensive Care Center, known by its Spanish acronym, El CAI, in Mexico City, to provide specialized medical and mental...
The migration route through central America and Mexico is long and dangerous—those who take it cross rivers, mountainous regions, and swampy terrain. It’s not just adults that risk this dangerous journey, children of all ages are also forced to flee their homes in search of safety or a better life...
Felipe Reyes is a psychologist with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Mexico. He provides psychological first aid (PFA) through a psychological helpline to migrants and asylum seekers.
Tania Marin, MSF Regional Medical Coordinator for Mexico and Honduras, explains the medical, psychological and social consequences of a sexual assault, the importance of talking about this topic with teenagers and the urgent need to eliminate cultural barriers, in order to reduce the long-term...
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has deployed four of its psychosocial support teams in several areas of Mexico City and is closely evaluating the psychological and medical needs in the state of Morelos following the strong earthquake that took place on Tuesday 19 September...
Emiliano LUCERO is Argentinian and has just returned from Mexico after working there for a year as a medical coordinator. In this interview, he talks about the challenges the organisation faces in the country and the populations we are assisting there: transmigrants travelling from Central America...
