MSF provides humanitarian aid to Haitian asylum seekers

MSF teams have been monitoring the situation of Haitians in this small town, located at the border between Brazil, Colombia and Peru, since November. In December, MSF started distributing more than 1,300 personal hygiene kits and other relief items. Project Update - 10 Jan 2012

Somalia

MSF condemns attacks on aid workers and calls for release of abducted colleagues

Two Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) colleagues, Phillipe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhuo, were killed last week by a gunman while implementing emergency assistance projects in Mogadishu. Three months ago, two MSF aid workers, Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, were abducted in Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya while carrying out emergency assistance for the Somali population. Project Update - 7 Jan 2012

Pakistan

In 2011, MSF provided medical care to 20,440 patients in Hangu

Despite the tense security situation in Hangu, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working inside the Hangu Tehsil Headquarter (THQ) Hospital since May 2010.
Project Update - 5 Jan 2012

Central African Republic

Uniting to fight the spread of malaria

On November 21-23, 2011 more than 40 malaria experts came together in Bangui to discuss their experiences and challenges treating malaria in the Central African Republic. Project Update - 3 Jan 2012

Central African Republic

A day in the MSF hospital in Paoua

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) manages the hospital in Paoua, the only one in the subprefecture, which has a population of approximately 120,000. MSF teams work with the Ministry of Health in all hospital departments (paediatrics, surgery, maternity, emergency, hospitalization and outpatient care and treatment of tuberculosis and HIV). Project Update - 13 Dec 2011

South Sudan

MSF activities in Doro

On November 28, MSF set up a temporary clinic in Doro. To date MSF has conducted 700 consultations in the temporary clinic, including 100 patients treated for malaria and more than 100 ante natal consultations. Because this is not a good sanitary environment for giving birth, a midwife will shortly join the MSF team, which also includes a doctor, a nurse, two clinical officers, a health promotion officer and other humanitarian emergency specialists. Project Update - 12 Dec 2011

Afghanistan

MSF treats victims of bomb blast in central Kunduz

Following a bomb blast in the capital of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan on 10 December, MSF treated fourteen patients in the organization’s surgical hospital. Project Update - 12 Dec 2011

South Sudan

MSF scales up emergency response

The registered number of refugees gathering at the tiny village of Doro, as of 7th December, was 21,500 and increasing daily. Anywhere from 500 to 1,000 newcomers are registering every day.
The walk from their homelands in Blue Nile State, Sudan (north), took anywhere from one week to one month. Although the work to set up a properly organised refugee camp is under way, no family groups arriving at the gathering point at Doro have yet been allocated a plot. So the reality for most is still to find a small tree or bush under which to spread the belongings they were able to carry. Project Update - 12 Dec 2011

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Sixty years on, governments still failing refugees

This week, world leaders will gather in Geneva to commemorate 60 years of the UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Yet it is an anniversary the world’s 15.1 million refugees have little reason to celebrate. Today, states are increasingly shutting their borders and restricting the assistance they give to refugees and people seeking asylum. Project Update - 8 Dec 2011

Meningitis

First-ever treatment guidelines released for major cause of death of people living with HIV

MSF study shows cryptococcal meningitis as leading cause of death, but access to best treatment is a major challenge Project Update - 7 Dec 2011

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