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Counterterrorism policies and practices: health and values at stake

How counterterrorism policies and practices can have unintended health impacts in countries where health systems are strained and population health indicators are poor. Journal article - 12 Oct 2015
 
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Syria

Kobane Health Administration launches a measles vaccination campaign with support of MSF

“The campaign took place in four locations in Kobane town to provide easy access to vaccination sites for residents” said Jason Mills, MSF Head of Mission. The Kobane Health Administration, in cooperation with MSF teams, provided measles vaccination and vitamin A for children between six month and five years of age. The campaign started on 18 of August and lasted for six days in town; followed by three days in four rural locations in the canton. “The teams vaccinated 3,410 children in Kobane town and 2,366 in the surrounding villages.” Mills added. Press Release - 29 Sep 2015
 
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Global

Coincident polio and Ebola crises expose similar fault lines in the current global health regime

Publication of the article "Coincident polio and Ebola crises expose similar fault lines in the current global health regime" by Marc Poncin and Caroline Abu Sa'Da, in the journal Conflict and Health (2015, Vol. 9, No. 29). Journal article - 17 Sep 2015
 
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Mali

MSF continues its activities in Timbuktu despite insecurity

Since 2014, deteriorating security, explosive devices on roads and the risk of carjacking have forced MSF to reduce its activities in Timbuktu. In spite of all this, MSF continues to fully support three community health centres on the outskirts of Timbuktu with primary, emergency obstetric and neonatal care, immunisation and nutrition programmes. Project Update - 24 Jul 2015
 
Global

A Year in Review | 2015

2015 International Activity Report: The Year in Review Report - 1 Jul 2015
 
Kouango emergency intervention (CAR)
Central African Republic

MSF starts an emergency intervention in Kouango amid ‘a terrible mix of violence, displacement and lack of basic healthcare’

While MSF teams in DRC took charge of the incoming refugees, an emergency team in CAR started an intervention focused on children, women and victims of violence in Kouango town and its surroundings. Press Release - 14 Apr 2015
 
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Liberia

No vaccinations for months has put children at risk

As of January, an estimated 92,000 children below one-year old in Liberia had not been vaccinated at all. Voices from the Field - 2 Apr 2015
 
Bata IDP camp
Central African Republic

MSF starts a vaccination campaign in the largest displaced persons' camp in the country

Camp numbers continue to grow as families flee violence in the region. Project Update - 25 Feb 2015
 
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Syria

From bad to worse

"Syria remains the most serious humanitarian crisis in the world" - Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, Head of Mission of the MSF team in Aleppo in 2014
Op-Ed - 7 Jan 2015
 
Vaccination in Masisi, Eastern DRC
Democratic Republic of Congo

Gallery: An ambitious vaccination campaign in war-torn Congo

Photo Story - 8 Dec 2014
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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