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

Nepal

Three months after the earthquakes, MSF reduces operations

Reducing its operations, MSF will nonetheless continue monitoring for disease outbreaks in several remaining displaced peoples camps, and conducting surgical and post-operative support in hospitals where needs have been identified. Project Update - 22 Jul 2015

Central African Republic

Emergency team finishes 3 month intervention in Kouango after performing almost 1,500 consultations

Following a three-month presence in Kouango in the south of the country, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has now ended its emergency intervention for displaced people in the area. During that time, the MSF emergency team carried out more than 1,100 medical examinations in its mobile clinics and cared for 362 patients in Kouango hospital. Project Update - 14 Jul 2015

Niger

critical situation in Diffa as hunger gap and malaria season approach

The already fragile condition of the population in Diffa has recently been aggravated by the escalation of the on-going armed conflict in southern Niger. The area bordering north Nigeria is facing new waves of displaced people and refugees escaping the violence raging around Lake Chad, especially since last February when the conflict spread to Niger. Living conditions are critical, with the displaced population having little access to healthcare and safe water. Project Update - 14 Jul 2015

Given the current trend in discussions around development aid, countries will need to grapple with stagnating or shrinking Official Development Assistance to cover a wider array of sectors and objectives. An unhealthy competition between sectors and even within the health arena could ensue, with health priorities pitted against one another.

Ethiopia

People’s needs, not country income, should guide development funding for health

Policies underlying international development aid by traditional donors, including the funding for health, are predominantly driven by the classification of countries according to their gross national income (GNI) per capita. Project Update - 10 Jul 2015

Mediterranean migration

From Eritrea to Mediterranean: "A Lot of Trouble"

On June 19, MSF rescued 345 people from a small boat on the Mediterranean. One man described the journey from Eritrea, through Sudan and Libya. Project Update - 2 Jul 2015

South Sudan

Activity Update April & May 2015

MSF teams are currently running medical projects in six of South Sudan’s ten states and the Abyei Administrative Area Project Update - 29 Jun 2015

Open packages of ‘Plumpy Sup’ supplementary food found strewn all over the ground. MSF had more than seven tons of stock in its warehouse in Melut, Upper Nile state for patients who suffer from malnutrition.

South Sudan

MSF resumes activities in Melut amid challenges to access the population in parts of Upper Nile state

MSF has resumed activities in Melut, Upper Nile state, 16 days after renewed fighting in mid-May forced the organisation to suspend medical activities and evacuate staff. The ongoing conflict and recurrent periods of shelling in Malakal and Melut are still making it difficult both for MSF teams to access the population to provide medical assistance and for populations to access healthcare facilities. Project Update - 29 Jun 2015

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF teams vaccinate 42,000 children against measles in the region of Bunyakiri

MSF teams have vaccinated children and young people in the region of Bunyakiri and Tushunguti, an area that is particularly difficult to access and cannot be reached by any kind of vehicle. Project Update - 26 Jun 2015

MSF Staff administrate an oral vaccine to a boy at the Nyaragusu refugee camp.

MSF is carrying out an oral cholera vaccination campaign in Nyaragusurefugee camp in Tanzania for 56,000 Burundian refugees. A cholera outbreak began among the refugees in mid-May. As at 22 June, some 3,086 cases and 34 deaths have been reported in Tanzania.

Tanzania

MSF to carry out oral cholera vaccination for Burundian and Congolese refugees

115,000 refugees to be vaccinated against cholera this month. "Although the number of cholera cases is low at the moment, another influx of people from Burundi could put further strain on existing services, and the risk of another outbreak remains high.” says MSF Emergency Coordinator. Project Update - 22 Jun 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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