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MSF Medical Action - Rohingya Crisis
Rohingya refugee crisis

Immediate action needed to avert massive public health disaster

“Hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in an extremely precarious situation, and all the preconditions for a public health disaster are there.” Press Release - 21 Sep 2017
 
Libya: detention centres in Tripoli
Libya

MSF continues to provide medical care to migrants and refugees detained in Tripoli

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continued to provide lifesaving and primary healthcare to refugees and migrants detained in the capital Tripoli during the first quarter of 2017. More than 4,000 medical consultations took place in seven different detention centres nominally under the control of the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM). Project Update - 19 May 2017
 
MSF AWD ward in Kebridahar 2017
Ethiopia

Thousands hit by outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea during worst drought for decades

A prolonged period of drought in the Somali Region of Ethiopia has resulted in a radical water shortage, leading to an important outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea which is sweeping through the region. Project Update - 24 Apr 2017
 
Ethiopia Acute Watery Diarrhea Intervention Kebridahar 2017
Ethiopia

“I feel like I have been given a second life by the doctors and nurses here.”

Since March 2016, thousands of acute watery diarrhoea cases have been detected and treated in Ethiopia with the full support of the Regional Health Bureau. Project Update - 10 Mar 2017
 
Primary healthcare in South Sudan
South Sudan

Our community health workers are the MSF project

After the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Leer was repeatedly attacked, we realised we needed new ways to provide medical care. Dr Philippa Pett describes here how her team of local staff is providing healthcare to people on the move through a flexible network of mobile clinics. Voices from the Field - 21 Feb 2017
 
DRC: Paediatric care in Manono General Hospital
Democratic Republic of Congo

More than 200 people treated for injuries at Manono hospital, Tanganyika

"In December, the hospital's surgical department was overwhelmed. There were people everywhere, lying on the floor waiting to be treated," says Gaudia Sironi, MSF Field Coordinator. Voices from the Field - 23 Jan 2017
 
TANZANIA: ONE YEAR OF TURMOIL FOR BURUNDIAN REFUGEES
Tanzania

One year of turmoil for Burundian refugees

Project Update - 1 Jun 2016
 
Sana’a. Yemen
Yemen

Antiretroviral treatment beneath the bombs

More than 1,300 people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral treatment in Yemen, around half of them in Sana’a, the capital. Dr Abdulfattah Al-Alimi, Field coordinator and medical team leader of MSF's HIV/AIDS project in Yemen, discuss how the current war is affecting the patients' treatment. "In the end, this is our job and responsibility: to find a way so no one has to interrupt their treatment because of the war," says Dr Abdulfattah Al-Alimi. " These are difficult times for my country, but we are trying to prevent them from being even more so for people living with the virus." Voices from the Field - 29 Oct 2015
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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