MSF continues to reinforce its teams in Guéckédou and Macenta, where the Ebola virus has spread. Project Update - 25 Mar 2014

Honduras

MSF fights deadly outbreak of dengue fever

MSF teams are responding to an epidemic of haemorrhagic dengue fever that is spreading through San Pedro Sula, Honduras’ second city. Project Update - 23 Oct 2013

On the N25 road to Isiro between Nia Nia and Wamba. When trucks cannot go through because of the rain, transport is done with motorbikes.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Innovative vaccination strategies to respond to measles epidemic

Tessy Fautsch, a nurse, went with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to Wamba in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to take part in a measles vaccination campaign, part of a new project responding to the epidemic that has been devastating the country since 2010. Project Update - 23 Sep 2013

In April 2010 MSF is started a measles vaccination campaign targeting 38,000 children under 5 this week at Argungu LGA (Local Government Area), Kebbi. During the campaign, 47,569 children aged 6 months to 5 years were vaccinated. The teams
believe mobilisation of the community, which included the involvement of senior community and religious leaders, was very effective.

Nigeria

MSF responds to measles outbreak

Since the end of 2012, Katsina State in northern Nigeria has experienced a measles outbreak, which has just ended after lasting 28 weeks. MSF supported the authorities by providing epidemiological surveillance and case management in Katsina’s 34 local government areas. Project Update - 13 Aug 2013

Niger

MSF treats cholera patients

Cholera has broken out in northern Niger in an area which is hosting large number of Malian refugees and which was hit by a cholera epidemic last year. Project Update - 23 May 2013

Chad

Preventing another cholera epidemic

A cholera epidemic in Chad in 2010-2011 was the largest to hit the country in the last 15 years, with more than 17, 000 registered cases. Over the last year, MSF treated more than 12,700 patients – approximately three quarters of all the cases in the country. In order to prevent another emergency, there must be improved access to uncontaminated water and sanitation facilities. Project Update - 11 Jan 2012

Cholera

Cholera epidemic - MSF supports overwhelmed local health authorities

A cholera epidemic has spread across all districts of Cameroon’s economic capital, Douala, home to 2.1 million people. The epidemic, which was officially declared 14 months ago, in September 2010, has peaked and troughed a number of times. In March and April, during the short rainy season, cholera peaked with an average of 120 cases per week. But since September the number of cases has been increasing further, with more than 400 cases per week reported in mid-October. Project Update - 28 Nov 2011

Somalia

Uphill challenge to fight diseases in Marere

MSF is currently battling outbreaks of cholera and measles in and around the town of Marere in southern Somalia. Over the past few weeks, more than 80 cases of cholera have been treated. MSF is also preventing further infections by hygiene promotion and chlorination of water wells. Project Update - 13 Sep 2011

Democratic Republic of Congo

As cholera epidemic spreads in DRC, MSF opens emergency treatment centres along Congo river

The three major factors that promote the spread of cholera are all currently present in DRC: dense urban population; a lack of hygiene and little access to clean water; and the confirmed presence of the disease in several locations. In a country where the health system is faltering, this outbreak comes at a time when several other medical emergencies are already causing havoc, in particular a measles epidemic that is raging in several provinces. Project Update - 4 Jul 2011

Meningitis

Meningitis vaccine for 607,000 people in rural Chad

Thanks to the vaccine, the people of Laokassi, Moundou, Melfi, Kelo, Benoye and Kroumla should be protected against the disease for the next three years. Nonetheless, for the inhabitants of a country where meningitis is endemic, such as Chad, the new vaccine, which offers five years’ protection, cannot come soon enough. Project Update - 22 Apr 2011

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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