MSF tackles outbreak of dengue fever in Honduras with a new strategy

Due to an alarming increase in dengue fever cases in Honduras this year, MSF has launched an emergency intervention in Tegucigalpa, capital of the Central American country, Honduras, where the majority of cases have been reported. MSF is supporting local health services with a three-pronged approach focusing on medical care, vector control and community education. Such dengue intervention is relatively new for MSF. Project Update - 9 Oct 2010

Balochistan province<br/>Province du Baloutchistan, septembre 2010.<br/>La clinique fixe de MSF à Dera Murad Jamali. Avec les Docteurs Linnea et Kaye dans l'O.T. pour une césarienne avec complication. L'utérus est descendu trop bas suite à plusieurs grossesses. *** Local Caption *** Pakistan - Suite aux inondations qui ont frappées, à partir de juillet 2010, successivement les provinces du Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, du Pendjab, du Sind et du Baloutchistan, MSF a mis en place une réponse d urgence pour venir en aide aux personnes sinistrées : consultations médicales, dispensaires mobiles, distribution d eau potable, activités d assainissement de l eau et distribution de biens de première nécessité.<br/><br/>Pakistan - Following the floods which stroke since the end of July 2010 successively the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pendjab, Sind and Baloutchistan, MSF set up an emergency response to provide aid to affected people: medical consultations, mobile clinics, safe water distribution, water and sanitation activities and non-food items distribution.

Pakistan

Boosting maternal and child healthcare in Dera Murad Jamali, Pakistan

"People in Pakistan, unfortunately, believe that a good delivery has to be short and, as such, practitioners often give large of amounts of oxytocin" sometimes eight times as much as allowed in order to have the quicker deliveries which then leads to more complicated and dangerous births. This is the biggest problem we face here and we are deeply concerned," said Dr Ekdahl. Project Update - 5 Oct 2010

Chad

Chadians face a threefold emergency of hunger, floods and cholera

A long drought in Chad, followed by torrential rains, has destroyed crops, flooded wells and cut off villages. Weakened by malnutrition and without access to clean water, people are particularly vulnerable to cholera outbreaks in the region Project Update - 4 Oct 2010

MSF doctors and nurses helping Somali displace people southern Mogadishu howl wadaag district on August 13, 2011.

Somalia

Casualties overwhelming medical capacity in Somalia

Ongoing warfare in Mogadishu straining ability to treat scores of wounded. Project Update - 29 Sep 2010

Uzbekistan

You can see tuberculosis in Uzbekistan in a heartbeat

A patient with advanced MDR-TB. She is too frail to play table tennis, as are most of her fellow patients at the hospital. Project Update - 24 Sep 2010

India

Mental health activities halted due to increasing violence and new curfew in Jammu and Kashmir, India

Increasing violence and a new round-the-clock curfew imposed last Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir, India, MSF to halt its mental health activities in the Kashmir Valley. Project Update - 17 Sep 2010

Ethiopia

In Imey Somali region Ethiopia distance to health care is often overwhelming

'Our health clinic is the closest place to go'
In August 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started working in Imey, in the Somali region of Ethiopia. In this interview, returning field coordinator, Christian Sorensen, talks about his experience and explains why it is important that MSF is working there today. Project Update - 14 Sep 2010

Haiti

MSF treating increasing number of suspected cholera cases in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

"While cholera and cholera-like symptoms can present very quickly and become life-threatening, unnecessary deaths can easily be averted with swift access to properly equipped and staffed facilities in close proximity to outbreak areas," said Kate Alberti, an epidemiologist with Epicentre, MSF™s epidemiological research center. Project Update - 11 Sep 2010

Nigeria

Coordinated effort in Nigeria needed to prevent further deaths in lead poisoning

Project Update - 10 Sep 2010

Pakistan

MSF expands Pakistan emergency response into newly flooded areas in the south as concern mounts for waterborne diseases

More than five weeks since the first floods overwhelmed regions in the north of Pakistan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency medical and water and sanitation teams expand operations to the south of Punjab and in hard-hit Sindh province, where millions of people have been displaced by fresh flooding. Project Update - 8 Sep 2010

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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