During the six years of war in Yemen, many people have sought refuge in Marib governorate. However fighting in what was once a safe haven is now displacing people - who have little access to healthcare. Project Update - 11 Mar 2021

30-year old Aster* is 8 months pregnant and has come for a consultation at MSF’s clinic at Primary School IDP camp. Two months ago, she fled Adi Heseray with her husband and two children. They were farmers. She says her house was burned down and all their belongings were taken.
“It was difficult to walk all the way to Shire, being pregnant and having a 6 and 4 year old. We live with the host community in Shire. They gave us a place to sleep and share their food with us. We did not know the family before. It is very difficult to be pregnant in this situation. Before the fighting, I often visited a doctor but since then I have received no medical checkup. In my town, all the drugs were taken, the health center was destroyed. I hope I will get medical assistance for this birth. My two other children were born at the hospital. We are very depressed. I have not received any food aid. We are getting some food from the people we are staying with. Sometimes, I beg. If they don’t give me anything, we sometimes sleep without food. It is difficult to be dependent. Before, I could do whatever I wanted. Now I feel stressed. I have nothing to eat for my children. It makes me empty inside. Before, the children had regular meals. Now they sometimes sleep without eating.”

Ethiopia

People in Tigray “are suffering from a lack of medical care”

Following violence, the crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia continues, with people in camps for the displaced - and those in rural areas - lacking food and access to medical care. Project Update - 5 Mar 2021

Syria

A decade of war in Syria: 10 years of increasing humanitarian needs

War has now been raging in Syria for 10 years. We outline the increasing humanitarian needs of millions of Syrians over the course of the war and our efforts to respond to them. Project Update - 3 Mar 2021

Central African Republic

People, medical facilities hit during violence in southern CAR

Post-election violence in Central African Republic is continuing to have an impact on people, this time in the southern city of Bambari, when people and medical facilities were hit with bullets. Project Update - 22 Feb 2021

Tsgay , 35 year old woman and daughter Dalina , 4 year old temoignage:

She shared with MSF teams: “The food that we eat doesn’t contain any nutrients, but we have no option, we have to eat it in order to survive.”

“When we fled from Tigray we had some money. We used to buy sorghum from the market. Now we spent [all our money]. Now we are forced to take the wet portage and mix it with the little amount of flour we have and use it to make injera.”

Ethiopia Tigray crisis

For refugees in Hamdayet, Sudan, “everyone is hungry, and everyone is tired”

More than 61,000 people, fleeing violence in Ethiopia, have registered as refugees in Sudan. Those stuck in the border town of Hamdayet are barely having their basic needs met. Project Update - 19 Feb 2021

Cameroon

Healthcare in the community, by the community in Cameroon

With conflict and insecurity a feature of life in South-West Cameroon, MSF teams have found ways to ensure local communities can access medical care - by training them to give aid. Project Update - 4 Feb 2021

The influx of these extremely vulnerable internally displaced people (IDPs) has exacerbated existing inequalities in Katasomwa, in the Kalehe Territory of South Kivu, in the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Tensions between communities are materializing in the form of difficulty in accessing food resources and education, particularly for the displaced and local nomadic Pygmy communities.

Democratic Republic of Congo

South Kivu: An endless flight

Unrest in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has forced thousands to flee their homes. Many are in remote and under-resourced areas of South Kivu. Project Update - 28 Jan 2021

Central African Republic

Displaced people in Bouar living amid fear and growing needs

People in Bouar, in western Central African Republic (CAR), have been living in fear since an uptick in violence, forcing many to become displaced to areas that lack sanitation and access to healthcare. Project Update - 26 Jan 2021

MSF’s Mental Health Supervisor is checking on patients who are visiting our Kutupalong facility to have mental health support.

Rohingya refugee crisis

Relocations, reduced services leave Rohingya communities at breaking point in Bangladesh

Unable to work, Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, rely on aid for survival; but services have been scaled back due to COVID-19, and with many being relocated, leaving people anxious and stressed. Project Update - 21 Jan 2021

Patient is carried to the ambulance shortly after the start of a heavy rain in Tefé. She will go to the airport and from there to the state capital, Manaus, where there are more resources for her treatment of COVID-19.

The transfer of this patient took place in late December 2020, before the health system in Manaus collapsed for the second time and referrals to the state capital were interrupted.

Brazil

COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling

Coronavirus COVID-19 has caused the health system in Manaus, the capital of Brazil's Amazonas state, to collapse, forcing city hospitals to stop receiving serious patients from other towns. Project Update - 21 Jan 2021

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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Health needs grow for people in former safe haven of Marib