Sasobas, Ebola survivor

Video: Sasobas, Ebola survivor Project Update - 30 Jul 2014

Emergency medical coordinator Sophie Sabatier, who runs the Gudele 2 cholera treatment centre, checks up on a cholera patient and his family.

Since the South Sudanese Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak in Juba, the countryÕs capital, on 15 May 2014, more than 1,306 patients have been treated for the disease, and 29 people have died as at 05 June 2014. MSF has set up a CTC in the district of Gudele 2, and two smaller CTCs in the two IDP camps in UN bases. There are several MSF Oral Rehydration points close to the affected areas of Juba, and support id provided to the MoH in the Juba Teaching Hospital.

South Sudan

Cholera claiming lives in Upper Nile State, South Sudan

Communities and displaced populations living in congested camps with poor hygiene and sanitation are at high risk of contracting cholera Project Update - 30 Jul 2014

Souweba Mamane takes part in the “mamans lumière” sessions in Doney.
The “mamans lumière” (mothers of light) are at the centre of a strategy to prevent acute malnutrition in the community itself, known as Homes of Nutritional Learning, Rehabilitation and Prevention (FARPN, in its French initials). In the programme, families take responsibility for improving the nutritional condition of children who are at risk of suffering acute malnutrition. To achieve this objective, positive changes in the community's behaviour are encouraged by the “mamans lumière” with regard to nutrition, hygiene and health practices.
In 2013, MSF put the FARPN strategy into operation in the districts of Madaoua and Bouza, Niger.

Niger

The mothers of light

A highly successful nutrition programme in Niger Project Update - 30 Jul 2014

Democratic Republic of Congo

A team of MSF vaccinated 38,000 children against measles in Minova before continuing the campaign in Kalonge

The immunization campaign took place for about three weeks, from 27 June to 16 July in four health areas (Lumbishi, Numbi, Shanje and Tushunguti) in the hilly surroundings of the town of Minova, the so called Hauts Plateaux. Project Update - 25 Jul 2014

For Arnon Chipondoro, hearing that his daughter Elizabeth was HIV positive was not a shock, but a relief : a possibility for him to share his secret with someone else. Both of them have been on ARV treatment for three years, a treatment that allow to control the disease and live a long and healthy life – if and only people on ARV can access their treatment without fail so as to be able to take it every single day. Arnon and Elizabeth are now members of a Community ART Group, or CAG, which, they say, has transformed their lives. In a CAG, members take turn to take the three hours long hike to get to the nearest clinic and pick up the drugs for the whole group. It’s a simple but very efficient way to manage disease: in other places where MSF has introduced the CAGs, retention in care is at over 90% of patients after four years of their initiation on treatment, against only two third in traditional models of care.

Zimbabwe

Divided we fall

New system of HIV treatment transforms lives in Zimbabwe Project Update - 25 Jul 2014

HIV/AIDS

Operational Update: The Ebola outbreak in West Africa

As the Ebola outbreak continues to spread in west Africa, MSF is stepping up its response in the most affected areas. Project Update - 24 Jul 2014

Eswatini

Surviving drug-resistant TB: “I’m still over the moon”

Khanyi describes her delight at being cured of TB Project Update - 24 Jul 2014

Early morning of July 20 in Shifa Hospital. Ambulance staff are bringin in 2 of their colleagues that got killed.

Palestine

A night at the Al-Shifa Hospital

Waves of wounded patients streamed into the emergency department the Al-Shifa Hospital Project Update - 23 Jul 2014

HIV/AIDS

We see pregnant women dying from HIV

Mamotsieleli Molofotsane from Lesotho is around 20 years old. She has three children and is pregnant with her fourth. Mamotsieleli has been tested HIV positive and is on ARV treatment. Her three children have been tested HIV negative. Project Update - 22 Jul 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.

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