People seeking to cross the US-Mexico border through the Arizona desert face serious health risks with little access to medical care. Project Update - 9 Aug 2024

“I come from the village of Mandjebougou. I'm a trader, I'm married and I have seven children.
The day before I fled, two of my brothers were kidnapped by armed men. They suspected my brothers of cooperating with the army. After freeing them, they announced that they needed 25 men. So all the young people in the village decided to flee.
I also fled Mandjebougou because I was wanted. I sell couscous. One day, they came to buy some from me, but I didn't want to sell it to them. In the past, they had broken my son's phone and I asked them to fix it. They replied: ‘If you dare to ask us to compensate your son, it's only because you're free’. I think that's why they were looking for me.
One Tuesday morning in April, on my way back from the shop, I was alerted by a neighbour's phone call. I went out to the west side of the village. I reached the river and got into a pirogue. When it started, the armed men were running towards us. They asked the pirogue driver to stop, but he continued on to Niafounke. When we got to Niafounke, the piroguier told someone to take me to the site of the displaced people. I fled with what I was carrying that day.
Today, I live at the IDP site with two of my children. I know they're still looking for me. Today, I have no source of income. I live in fear, far from my other children and my husband. I struggle to eat and my sleep is always troubled.”

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Violent hostilities between armed men empty villages in northern Mali

MSF is providing water and healthcare to internally displaced people arriving in the town of Niafounké from the Gourma region, Northern Mali. Project Update - 2 Aug 2024

Roda Nefazal Mnot, 45 year-old carrying the wood she collected from the floodwaters for firewood. Her 5-year-old son follows her everywhere.

Internally Displaced Camp population (IPD) camp, Bentiu, Unity State, Rubkona County, South Sudan.

South Sudan

Women and children at the forefront of climate change in South Sudan

Bentiu displaced people's camp in South Sudan hosts over 100,000 people. Among them, many single mothers are struggling to provide a better future for their children despite the climate shocks expected to become increasingly severe. Project Update - 25 Jul 2024

MSF clinic in Kyein Ni Pyin Camp, Pauktaw Township, Rakhine State, where Rohingya communities are contained. MSF teams delivers primary health care to Rohingya communities. Many of these communities have lived there since 2012.

Myanmar

MSF teams face obstacles providing medical care to communities in Rakhine state

In June 2023, MSF faced challenges providing medical care in northern Rakhine state, Myanmar, due to conflict escalation and office destruction in Buthidaung, leading to operational suspension. Project Update - 12 Jul 2024

Elvis Badaso, a nurse, during consultation with a patient at Garsen high school medical outpost

Kenya

MSF emergency response to flooding in Tana River County

In late March 2024, severe flooding forced more than 43,000 people from their homes in Tana River County, Kenya. In response, MSF launched an emergency response in Garsen town. Project Update - 8 Jul 2024

Syrian refugee children peak through the ventilation opening of a tent. “Fear keeps my family of 10 crammed together in the tent all day,” says Wael [name changed to preserve anonymity]. His children stopped leaving their 4x4 meter tent to play to avoid tension with the local community. Children's mental health has been among the first impacted by rising discriminatory rhetoric in Lebanon.

(To note: The children depicted in the photo aren't Wael's).

Lebanon

Trapped in fear, Syrian refugees face unbearable choices in Lebanon

Against a backdrop of an acute socio-economic collapse in Lebanon, Syrian refugees in the country are being increasingly targeted, leaving many too scared to seek healthcare. Project Update - 28 Jun 2024

Rohingya women hoping to get seen by doctors in crowded waiting room at MSF mobile clinic in Rakhine state.

Myanmar

MSF suspends medical activities in northern Rakhine state, Myanmar

MSF has suspended medical activities in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar, due to escalating conflict and access restrictions. Project Update - 27 Jun 2024

A nurse wears a reusable face mask during a patient consultation in northern Mozambique, where climate-sensitive diseases, such as those spread by mosquitoes, are common

Climate emergency

How to provide healthcare without harming the environment

An MSF pilot project is working to replace single-use face masks with masks that can be washed and reworn up to 40 times. doctorswithoutborders.org - 25 Jun 2024

Palestine, Khan Younis, sud de Gaza, 23 avril 2024. Photographie prise à l'intérieur de l'hôpital Nasser, après que ce dernier a été assiégé par les forces israéliennes. Fin janvier, l'hôpital a été encerclé par les forces israéliennes après avoir envoyé des ordres d'évacuation concernant toute la zone. L'hôpital a été au centre de combats intenses pendant plusieurs semaines.
Palestine, Khan Younis, south Gaza, April 23, 2024. Photograph taken inside Nasser Hospital, after a siege by the Israeli forces. At the end of January, the Israeli forces issued evacuation orders for the entire area and surrounded the hospital, which found itself at the centre of intense fighting for several weeks.

Gaza-Israel war

MSF-supported health facilities across Gaza face critical shortage of medical supplies

Unable to bring any medical supplies into the Gaza Strip, Palestine, since the end of April, MSF teams in Gaza are facing critical shortages of essential medicines and equipment. Project Update - 21 Jun 2024

Oleh Pohrebniak, MSF health promoter explains the signs of PTSD to Taras Tsovenko, a participant to the MSF health promotion activity at the Kherson hub.

There are different people each week, depending on the arts and crafts proposed. Today it is pottery of traditional Ukrainian craft for Easter. During the session, the health promotion team actually sits down and talks to each person individually at one point or another, so they can use general questions to find out how people are feeling. They also build up a relationship of trust. As the health promoters have already described the symptoms in the introduction, the participant can relate and ask for more information. At the end of the session, everyone practices a breathing exercise, a new tool to help them cope with stress.

Ukraine

Finding ways to live with trauma in Ukraine

In September 2023, MSF opened a trauma centre in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, to provide treatment for people experiencing war-related post-traumatic stress. Project Update - 11 Jun 2024

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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