Asylum seekers trapped in appalling conditions in Gambella region

South Sudanese asylum seekers are stranded in reception centres in the Gambella region of western Ethiopia, without access to proper food or shelter. Forthcoming rains will make conditions even more difficult. Project Update - 9 Apr 2021

Theophile, MSF emergency team doctor, examines a child with measles at the Bosobolo general referral hospital. The Bosobolo health zone in Nord-Ubangi has been affected by measles for several weeks. MSF has sent an emergency team to treat patients and vaccinate all children from six months to nine years old.

In February 2021, an MSF emergency mobile team went to the Bosobolo health zone, North Ubangi, to support the provision of care to patients in eight health centers as well as in the general hospital. The team launched the vaccination of 66,000 children in this isolated health zone, and trained local health workers in patient care and epidemiological surveillance.

Democratic Republic of Congo

In DRC, measles is spreading and killing again in what seems to be a never-ending fight

Measles is once again on the rise in the Democratic Republic of Congo, shortly after the worst measles epidemic DRC has ever recorded. Project Update - 31 Mar 2021

MSF Nurse taking vitals of 10 years old girl, XDR-TB survivor during her post treatment six monthly follow-up at MSF independent Clinic, Mumbai-India

Tuberculosis

Sustainable solutions for children and adolescents at risk of drug-resistant tuberculosis

Between 25,000 and 30,000 children are estimated to become sick with DR-TB annually yet child-focused diagnostic, treatment and prevention strategies lack. Project Update - 30 Mar 2021

“The problem of insufficient water is very serious,” says Fati, another displaced person who has settled in Pulka. “When we have money, we buy water from the well, but if we don’t have any, we have to fetch it from the pond and this makes our children sick.”

Nigeria

Pulka, where water is the source of life… and disease

A lack of clean water for displaced people in Pulka, Borno state, Nigeria is causing illness among people; MSF is urging other organisations to act and improve access to a vital resource. Project Update - 16 Mar 2021

Dr. Abdukareem Saleh patient Abas Muhammad in the mobile clinic in the Hygiene Fund camp, a camp for African migrants who work as cleaners to clean the city under the contract with the Hygiene Fund.
الدكتور عبدالكريم صالح وهو يقوم بفحص المريض عباس محمد في العيادة المتنقلة في مخيم صندوق النظافة وهو مخيم خاص
بالمهاجرين الأفارقة الذين يعملون كعمال نظافة لمدينة مأرب بالتعاقد مع صندوق النظافة.

Yemen

Health needs grow for people in former safe haven of Marib

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

Illustration of women from various contexts and lived experiences, who all might seek self-care.

Women's health

Practicing self-care: empowering women to manage their own health

For International Women's Day, we explain how we empower women and girls around the world to practice self-care, by taking charge and managing their own health. Project Update - 4 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

DRC Ebola outbreaks

MSF responds in North Kivu to twelfth Ebola outbreak in DRC

Following a new outbreak of Ebola in DRC - the country's twelfth - MSF teams are responding in communities in North Kivu province, the site of the newest outbreak. Project Update - 25 Feb 2021

Violent clashes between gang members took place on February 23 around a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) burn care hospital in the neighborhood of Drouillard, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, forcing the staff to transfer 21 hospital patients to MSF's trauma hospital in the city's Tabarre neighborhood. MSF staff are pictured here transporting a burns patient upon arrival at MSF's Tabarre hospital on February 24.

Haiti

Staff forced to transfer burns hospital patients following Port-au-Prince violence

Violent clashes around the MSF burns centre hospital in Drouillard, a neighbourhood of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, have forced staff to transfer patients for their safety. Project Update - 25 Feb 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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