Newly displaced Syrians face multiple challenges in Idlib and northern Hama

Over the past two months, huge numbers of Syrians have been displaced from formerly besieged areas to northwest Syria, with more than 60,000 of them arriving in the governorate of Idlib and in northern Hama. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing assistance throughout the area, and has strengthened the medical response in Qalaat al-Madiq in northern Hama, a location known as ‘zero point’ where new arrivals descend from buses. Project Update - 14 May 2018

Nurses Feda' Abu Rashed (Left) and Ala' Al-Share' (Right)

International Nurses' Day

Nurses without limits

On International Nurses Day, MSF celebrates the work, dedication and passion of its 8,843 nurses saving lives around the world. Project Update - 9 May 2018

Syria

Thousands of displaced kids in Aleppo catch up on vaccinations

Since 2016, the countryside west of Aleppo, in northern Syria, has been one of the main destinations for internally displaced people (IDPs) evacuated from besieged areas, including East Aleppo City, Homs, South Hama and, recently, East Ghouta.
Project Update - 7 May 2018

Niger

In Diffa, listening spaces have been set up for and by women from the community

Three years ago, Fajimatou gave birth to her fourth child. Since then, she had been suffering from incontinence and regular urinary infections. Too embarrassed to raise this problem with the staff at the health post, she had kept it to herself. When she heard about the listening space for women set up by MSF in her village, it was a real relief. msf.lu - 4 May 2018

Nigeria

Parched Pulka searches for water

Amidst the conflict in Pulka, north-east Nigeria, displaced people struggle to access basic amenities like safe water. Project Update - 27 Apr 2018

Nigeria

Treating malnourished children in Beni Shiekh

Project Update - 25 Apr 2018

Admission of trauma patients following Palestinian March of Return

Palestine

MSF teams in Gaza observe unusually severe and devastating gunshot injuries

Since 1 April, MSF teams in Gaza, Palestine, have provided post-operative care to more than 500 people injured by gunshots during the March of Return demonstrations. Project Update - 19 Apr 2018

Bangladesh

The hospital on the hill providing care to Rohingya refugees

MSF has opened a new hospital in the heart of vast Kutupalong-Balukhali camp, which provides refuge to some 700,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Not hard to find, as it is on one of the many hills that form the landscape of Cox’s Bazar, its name says it all: ‘The hospital on the hill’. It is the third MSF facility opened in the district of Cox’s Bazar since the end of March. Project Update - 16 Apr 2018

Mali

Vaccinating 10,000 children over 60,000km of desert roads

The vast, desert region of Kidal in northern Mali, south of the Sahara, is home to nomadic populations frequently living far from health facilities. In 2018, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched its first multi-antigen campaign in Mali, aiming to vaccinate 10,000 children against a variety of common illnesses. Project Update - 9 Apr 2018

Rwanda

Remembering the genocide more than 20 years on

More than two decades since the 1994 genocide, Rwandan fieldworkers tell us about the experiences that motivated them to join MSF. Project Update - 6 Apr 2018

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