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Mali

Vaccination rate increases by 50 per cent in Ansongo

Project Update - 25 Apr 2016

multi-antigenes vaccination campaign in CAR

Central African Republic

More than 73,000 children vaccinated in an unprecedented campaign

Our head of mission in the Central African Republic talks about MSF's unprecedented vaccination campaign Voices from the Field - 29 Mar 2016

Access to medicines

MSF launches challenge to Pfizer’s patent on the pneumonia vaccine in India to increase access to more affordable versions

MSF has filed a ‘patent opposition’ in India to prevent US pharmaceutical company Pfizer from getting a patent on the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13), so more affordable versions can become available to developing countries and humanitarian organisations. “Pneumonia kills a child every 35 seconds,” says Dr. Manica Balasegaram. “As doctors who have watched far too many children die of pneumonia, we’re not going to back down until we know that all countries can afford this vaccine.” Crisis Update - 11 Mar 2016

Vaccination

High vaccine prices hamper immunisation efforts in Africa, but are missing from agenda of key vaccination conference

"If vaccine prices continue to spiral out of control, we will continue to see countries in Africa and around the world faced with difficult decisions about which deadly diseases they can and can’t afford to protect their children against," says Dr Myriam Henkens, International Medical Coordinator at MSF. "Ministers at this conference literally can’t afford to waste this opportunity to again speak out against high prices and push for change." Press Release - 24 Feb 2016

Syria

Health system close to collapse in war-torn Azaz district

“Azaz district has seen some of the heaviest tolls of this brutal war, and yet again we are seeing healthcare under siege,” said Muskilda Zancada, MSF head of mission, Syria. “We are extremely concerned about the situation in the south of the district, where medical staff, fearing for their lives, have been forced to flee and hospitals have either been completely closed, or can only offer limited emergency services.” Press Release - 10 Feb 2016

Bangassou - multi antigen vaccination campaign.

Central African Republic

Vaccinating kids living in crisis

Project Update - 5 Feb 2016

Niger

Getting children to grow healthily

An innovative strategy consisting of moving the treatment of severe acute malnutrition out of hospitals was expanded massively for the first time, and reached a record number of children.Ten years later, strategies to tackle other deadly diseases in Niger are combining with the fight against malnutrition in a public health approach. Project Update - 22 Dec 2015

Tanzania

“People cope with these tough living conditions because often they haven’t known anything else.”

Dr Alfonso Apollinar is part of MSF’s emergency team responding to the refugee crisis in Tanzania, where more than 118,000 Burundians have fled to camps across the border. He describes the conditions in the increasingly overburdened camps Voices from the Field - 9 Dec 2015

South Sudan

"The root cause of these illnesses is overcrowding and sub-standard living conditions"

Each time the three-month-old exhales, it makes a rasping sound as her breath forces its way through her tiny, infected lungs. When the infant cries, her body contorts with the effort of breathing. Until recently, she’s been connected to an oxygen machine to support her breathing. Voices from the Field - 18 Nov 2015

South Sudan

Dramatic increase in patients in Malakal’s UN site as living conditions jeopardise health of thousands

Following an influx of 16,000 IDPs in July-August, conditions remain unacceptable and it's impacting the health of the population: the number of under-five children treated by MSF per week has increased 5-fold since June, largely as a result of poor sanitation and over-crowding. Project Update - 18 Nov 2015

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