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Since the new US president announced changes to asylum policies, the impact has been significant. Most migrants in Matamoros think that the president will honour the commitment he made to grant them the opportunity to reunite with their families. This has lifted their spirits. They are again enthusiastic and hopeful they will be able to achieve their objectives and the purpose for which they left their country: to seek safety, improve their economic situation and reunite with their families.

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International Women´s Day - 2021

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Date taken / Date Recorded 26/02/2021 12:13 PM

Country Mexico

Commissioning section MSF-MEXICO

Photographer / videographer / producer John Marceline

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Additional Information / Shotlist MSF in Mexico is witness the different types of grief migrant women face, such as the fact of leaving their country, losing their home, because grief is has to be not only seen as the loss of a person but also the loss of something. Women have lost their place of origin, their home, their relatives. They constantly face this, especially with the lack of fulfilling the basic needs during their travels, in camps or shelters, and remembering that at some point in their lives they had financial stability and security with their family.

The teams care for women in different parts of the country who suffer diffrent types of violence and do not have access to adequate health care services, such as sexual and reproductive health services. These situations are seen on the migratory route and in contexts with high rates of violence, such as Guerrero and Reynosa in Tamaulipas.

In 2020 in the Northern Border project, in Matamoros and Reynosa, MSF had 2,126 medical consultations and 2,547 mental health consultations for women. 85% of the total cases (106) of sexual violence survivors cared by teams on the project were women.