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A member of the hygienist team in the MSF Ebola case management centre in Bo, Sierra Leone has left the High Risk Zone. In the undressing area he is sprayed with chlorine before undressing safely with the help of his colleague.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

On the frontline against Ebola

What hygienists in an Ebola case management centre do, and why their job is so important. Project Update - 4 Dec 2014
 
Patient being treated by MSF medical staff in White Nile State in Sudan.
Sudan

Separated by borders, united by needs

MSF provides medical assistance to South Sudanese in White Nile State, Sudan Project Update - 27 Nov 2014
 
Community ART Group (CAG) member holding  her remaining pills.
In a CAG, members get together to count their remaining pills at the end of the month, as a means to check if everyone has taken their pills regularly After the pill count they will discuss about adherence and challenges they encountered. The following day.aCAG representative will go to the health cCentre to pick up the drug refill  for all group members.
HIV/AIDS

Community models of care explained

Explaining patient-centred care of HIV/AIDs, and the community models of care that support it. Project Update - 26 Nov 2014
 
Nawaf, a 45-year-old patient:“I was blown up by a landmine while herding sheep and I lost both my legs. Two weeks later, my brother was also wounded in the same way. After four months of treatment, I tried on my prosthetics two days ago, I feel so happy. It’s a feeling that you can’t explain. I didn’t know that it would be possible. I can’t wait to go back to Syria to show my family that I can walk again.”
Jordan

A year of saving Syrian lives

Learn more about MSF's trauma surgery project on Jordan's border with Syria. Project Update - 24 Nov 2014
 
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Mali

MSF expands activities to fight Ebola outbreak

Swift and coordinated action is of paramount importance in the days immediately after new cases are reported, the medical organisation says Project Update - 20 Nov 2014
 
A patient with suspected TB at Malalaua health centre provides a sputum sample for testing at Kerema General Hospital using the newly arrived GeneXpert machine.

MSF attached the sputum sample to the UAV to be transported by air as part of the UAV trial.
Papua New Guinea

Innovating to reach remote TB patients and improve access to treatment

Tuberculosis prevalence is among the highest in the world, with major access challenges Project Update - 14 Nov 2014
 
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More about Tuberculosis

One-third of the world’s population is infected with TB. Every year 1.5 million die from it. Project Update - 14 Nov 2014
 
Tounfafi, a village of 6,000 people, is one of the sites within the Madaoua district where seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) has been implemented in Niger.
The combination of malnutrition and malaria is fatal. Both diseases pose a threat to younger children between June and October. It is a critical period because of the so-called hunger gap in between harvests when child malnutrition increases and because during the rainy season malaria cases are more frequent.
In 2013, MSF and the Ministry of Health jointly implemented seasonal malaria chemoprevention for the first time in Niger - a strategy that consists of administering a full anti-malarial treatment course during the seasonal malaria peak to children between 3 and 59 months of age. During these four months, children take three amodiaquine tablets and one sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine tablet for three days each month.
Malaria

MSF provides preventive treatment to 735,000 children in Niger, Mali and Chad

“This year, we have treated more than double the number of children we treated last year and we have reached more areas” Project Update - 14 Nov 2014
 
Staff getting dressed in full PPE in the ETC (Ebola Treatment Centre) in Bikoro.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Learn about our Ebola protective equipment

Project Update - 12 Nov 2014
 
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
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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