Dr David Kahindi, Deputy Medical Coordinator for MSF, has been working in South Sudan for more than three years. He recently arrived in Wau where he has been overseeing MSF’s emergency response. Voices from the Field - 29 Jun 2016

The mobile team and I took an hour speedboat ride, a long hot and sweaty hike through forest and farmland and a short canoe paddle through swamp to get here.

South Sudan

Protecting children from preventable diseases

Skye Giannino is a nurse from Victoria State in Australia. In April 2016 she supervised a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) vaccination campaign in Old Fangak, North-West of South Sudan. She shares a day in the life of this challenging assignment. Voices from the Field - 9 Jun 2016

23rd may 2016. Three boats containing approximately 150 people each were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Bourbon Argos and taken to Sicily, Italy.

Italy

I cannot accept that children or adults can die like this. I cannot accept it. Never.

Interview with MSF psychologist Aurelia Barbieri, in Catania, Sicily Voices from the Field - 2 Jun 2016

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff members fumigate a neighbourhood in Matadi, during an operation to kill adult mosquitoes.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Hunting down mosquitoes to combat yellow fever

Following the outbreak of yellow fever in the DRC, linked to the one that hit neighbouring Angola in December, MSF conducted activities in the southwest of the country to stop the spread of the disease.

Entomologist Andre Yebakima was among MSF's team who carried out an initial assessment. Voices from the Field - 31 May 2016

The entrance of the MSF-supported health centre in Boguila, where MSF has been working since 2007. Nineteen people, including three Central African MSF staff members, were killed during an armed robbery in the grounds of MSF’s hospital in Boguila, Central African Republic, on 26 April 2014. Immediately after the tragedy, MSF made the decision to reduce its activities, and the hospital now functions as a health centre, where an MSF team continues to answer people’s medical needs in an area where no other healthcare is available.

Central African Republic

Humanitarians need to go where no one else wants to

Midwife Carlen Mezendy Ndakala is the delivery room supervisor at the MSF maternity clinic in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. She shares some of her experiences providing humanitarian care in a highly unstable environment. Voices from the Field - 11 May 2016

In southern Mali, children struggle with endemic malnutrition, the heavy toll of seasonal malaria, and other preventable diseases such as diarrhoea and lower respiratory tract infections. Since 2009, Medecins Sans Frontieres is partnering with the Ministry of Health to link prevention and treatment across community and hospital levels of care for the best outcomes for children under 5, in Koutiala.
Koutiala is MSF’s most comprehensive paediatrics project, committed to strengthening prevention, early detection and diagnosis, as well as improving the quality and scope of care to treat the sickest children. It builds on the community-level “paediatric package”, addressing nutrition, vaccination, hygiene and health education via outreach and community health centres (CSCOM; currently 5) with the MSF-run paediatrics department within the Ministry of Health regional general referral hospital, Centre de Sante de Reference de Koutiala, or CSREF. In 2014 the hospital expanded to 200 beds.

Child health

A day in one of our largest paediatric programmes

Paediatrics advisor Dr David Green has recently arrived in Koutiala, southern Mali, on an extended visit to one of the largest paediatric programmes run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He describes a recent Monday working with national staff doctors, who share their wealth of experience in the six-year-old project. Voices from the Field - 11 May 2016

Greece

Will they kill us here in Europe?

Voices from the Field - 13 Apr 2016

MSF clinic in Gari Wanzam where thousands of newly displaced people from Bosso district have have sought refuge in the last days.

Lake Chad Crisis

Testimony of Falmatou, a Nigerian refugee in Niger

Falmatou lives alone with her eight children in a refugee camp in southern Niger after having fled her village in northern Nigeria, during a violent attack by ISWAP (Boko Haram). Voices from the Field - 31 Mar 2016

Malnutrition screening at the beginning of the circuit of the vaccination center.

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

The weather is cold, rainy, muddy and windy, there are many puddles of water. Asylum seekers in the jungle are trying to improve their living conditions.

France

Refugees face ‘slow death’ in Calais' Jungle

“This is how we live. Since when do people in modern Europe live like this? They put us in camps without decent food. We just sit around. We count the days. It’s a slow death,” says said Mohammad who fled Syria’s war. Voices from the Field - 25 Feb 2016

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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