Its remote location means that access to quality healthcare is more or less impossible for most people. Voices from the Field - 5 May 2015

Aminata is the mother of five children, and she is waiting for the sixth one. Her husband died in January in the Prince of Wales Ebola Management Center.

Fighting Ebola in the slums of Freetown

The massive Ebola management centres run by Médecins Sans Frontières at the peak of the outbreak are no longer full of patients, but MSF’s teams are still busy, making sure that all traces of Ebola are stamped out within local communities. Voices from the Field - 29 Apr 2015

Aissatou was dischargd by the Prince of Wales school with her 14 years old daughter. Her husband and 4 other children died because of Ebola. Today she is leaving in the house of her mother.

Promoting health at the heart of the communities

Helping high risk communities beat Ebola can be high risk work Voices from the Field - 29 Apr 2015

South Sudan

Nomads of war: A headmaster and his family living under a tree

Since the beginning of April , Simon Akoch, his wife and their six children have been sleeping under a tree in Noon, 25 minutes away from the Nile river by foot. Voices from the Field - 29 Apr 2015

De novembre 2014 à janvier 2015, l’Hôpital Général de Référence de Rutshuru, dans la province du Nord-Kivu, en RDC, a soigné des centaines d’enfants, premières victimes d’un pic de paludisme sans précédent. Il s’agit du pic de paludisme le plus important auquel le personnel congolais ait jamais eu à faire face, à la fois en termes de gravité, mais aussi de nombre des cas et de durée du pic. Une situation encore compliquée par des pathologies affectant les cas les plus graves: de nombreuses infections respiratoires et des états septiques sévères. L’appui de MSF à l’HGR de Rutshuru (287 lits d’hospitalisation), dans la province du Nord Kivu, a démarré en octobre 2005. MSF gère le « pôle chaud » : chirurgie, soins intensifs, urgences, grands brûlés et prise en charge des victimes de violences sexuelles. <br/> From November 2014 to January 2015, the General Hospital of reference (HGR) of Rutshuru in the province of North Kivu, DRC, has treated hundreds of children, the first victims of an unprecedented malaria peak. This is the most important malaria peak which the Congolese staff has ever faced, both in terms of severity, but also number of cases and duration of the peak. A situation worsened by pathologies affecting the worst case: many respiratory infections and severe sepsis. MSF is supporting the Rutshuru HGR (287 hospital beds) in the North Kivu province since October 2005. MSF runs the "hot pole": surgery, intensive care, emergency and burn support and case management for victims of sexual violence.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Malaria epidemic in “a pediatric unit crammed with beds”

From late November 2014 to early February 2015, Dr. Brice Daverton worked with MSF in the general hospital of Rutshuru in the North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Dr Daverton explained how our medical teams treat children, the principal victims of an unprecedented malaria epidemic. Voices from the Field - 25 Apr 2015

Central African Republic

In the Carnot enclave “All I dream of is getting out of here and starting all over again”

Three stories from the 500 Muslims trapped in a church compound for over a year. Voices from the Field - 17 Apr 2015

South Sudan

A year after mass killings in Bentiu, violence and displacement continue

A year after the mass killings of civilians in the oil town of Bentiu in South Sudan, including people sheltering in the hospital where MSF was running an HIV/TB project, the violence and displacement have continued and access to basic healthcare and food remains a problem for people living in rural areas outside the town Voices from the Field - 15 Apr 2015

Hellen Morris is an Ebola survivor in Liberia who lost her husband to Ebola and seven of his family members including his parents in August 2014

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola: Living in the aftermath

Hellen Morris is an Ebola survivor in Liberia who lost her husband to Ebola and seven of his family members including his parents in August 2014. Voices from the Field - 13 Apr 2015

Brima Vandi, MSF nurse from Sierra Leone. He was part of the MSF team that worked on rehabilitating and supporting the Bor State hospital in June 2014.
When violence started to spread in South Sudan in December 2013, Bor was one of the first towns to be hit. During December and January the town shifted hands several times between government and opposition forces, and 70,000 civilians from Bor took refuge in camps within South Sudan or in neighbouring countries. The State hospital was ransacked and all the staff and patients fled. He says: "It’s their hospital, not ours. I felt I was doing what I came here to do – to support, to let people know what to do and then train them in giving quality medical service."

South Sudan

Restoring a ransacked hospital

MSF nurse supervisor Brima Vandi's recounts the restoration of Bor's abandoned hospital Voices from the Field - 8 Apr 2015

Central African Republic

One whole month just to get to Bria hospital

After eight-year old Ousman had a fairly minor accident, his health gradually deteriorated. Voices from the Field - 8 Apr 2015

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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MSF begins medical activities in Bikenge, Maniema Province

Fighting Ebola in the slums of Freetown

Promoting health at the heart of the communities

Nomads of war: A headmaster and his family living under a tree

Malaria epidemic in “a pediatric unit crammed with beds”

In the Carnot enclave “All I dream of is getting out of here and starting all over again”

A year after mass killings in Bentiu, violence and displacement continue

Ebola: Living in the aftermath

Restoring a ransacked hospital

One whole month just to get to Bria hospital

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

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