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Ebola disease in DRC: find out how we're responding
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A line for an MSF protection kits distribution in West Point, Monrovia. These kits are designed for patients unable to be picked up by ambulances and families who need to disinfect their homes after someone dies.
Liberia

Distributing home disinfection kits in West Point suburb

Join an MSF team as it distributes 1,000 family protection and home disinfection kits in West Point, one of the Liberian capital’s slums. Project Update - 5 Nov 2014
 
There are many children in the Guéckédou Ebola case management centre. Some are orphans, which makes caring for them more complex. Staff easily become attached to these patients, whom they are the only ones to touch and comfort through two pairs of gloves and a mask.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Psychosocial support essential to responding to epidemic in Guéckédou, Guinea

In the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola case management centre (CMC) in Guéckédou, Guinea, a team of seven provides psychosocial support to the people and communities affected by Ebola. It is a difficult but indispensable task in responding to the epidemic Project Update - 4 Nov 2014
 
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Nigeria

Outbreak of cholera in Borno State

An epidemic of cholera broke out in Borno State in the northeast of Nigeria at the end of September. Already operating in this remote state that is difficult to get to and where the provision of healthcare is extremely limited, MSF is now responding to this latest epidemic. There have been 4,500 cases and 70 deaths from cholera in barely a month in Borno State’s capital and principal town Maiduguri and the number of cases continues to rise. Project Update - 3 Nov 2014
 
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Niger

Southern Niger hit by cholera outbreak

Almost one thousand people affected in several areas in the south of the country. Project Update - 24 Oct 2014
 
Siblings Haja, Abivatu and Lamphia Ngegba, with nurse Sallia Swarroy, celebrate having survived Ebola at MSF’s newest treatment centre in Bo, Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone

MSF’s newest Ebola treatment centre in Bo

MSF’s newest Ebola treatment centre, built in just five weeks, opened its gates on September 19th. Project Update - 15 Oct 2014
 
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Uganda

Update on Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbreak

Death of Ugandan on September 29th confirmed to have been due to Marburg fever Project Update - 9 Oct 2014
 
Tike, 9 years old, together with his elder sister Miatta and younger brother Jina sent by ambulance to MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun, Sierra Loene. Both their parents already died of Ebola.
Guinea

Conakry Ebola centre stretched to limit

Following a new spike in Ebola cases in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, MSF’s Ebola management centre is approaching full capacity Project Update - 9 Oct 2014
 
The outbreak is spreading rapidly in Monrovia, overwhelming the few medical facilities accepting Ebola patients. Much of the city’s medical system has shut down over fears of the virus among staff members and patients, leaving many people with no healthcare at all, generating an emergency within the emergency. MSF is rapidly scaling up its operations in Liberia as the international response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues to be chaotic and entirely inadequate. In its first week, MSF’s ebola management centre – also known as ELWA3 – in the capital Monrovia, is already at capacity with 120 patients, and a further expansion is underway. The centre has eight tents, each with 15 beds, in separate sections for suspected and confirmed Ebola patients. On site, MSF is preparing for further construction and to erect three larger tents with space for 40 beds each. The team is planning to admit patients in these tents in the coming week. (MSF caption)
Liberia

MSF distributing family protection kits

“We know these kits are not the solution to the Ebola crisis in Monrovia” Project Update - 3 Oct 2014
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF treating patients in difficult conditions

The Ebola outbreak has not yet been contained. Project Update - 2 Oct 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Explore an Ebola Care Centre

Explore our interactive guide to an Ebola care centre. Project Update - 15 Sep 2014
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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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