Waves of Mozambicans fleeing violence seek refuge in Malawi

Interview with Bote Zamadenga, the MSF’s medical activities manager for the Corridor project in Malawi. Voices from the Field - 18 Jan 2016

Niger

“Today, Nigeriens know that their children can recover from malnutrition”

Elyse Aichatou is a nurse. Having just left midwifery school in 2005, she was recruited by MSF to take care of malnourished children when the country was being hit by an extremely serious nutritional crisis. For 10 years, Elyse has continued her work at MSF’s nutritional centres in southern Niger. Here she talks about her experience and the problem of malnutrition in the Zinder region from 2005 until today. Voices from the Field - 22 Dec 2015

Tanzania

“People cope with these tough living conditions because often they haven’t known anything else.”

Dr Alfonso Apollinar is part of MSF’s emergency team responding to the refugee crisis in Tanzania, where more than 118,000 Burundians have fled to camps across the border. He describes the conditions in the increasingly overburdened camps Voices from the Field - 9 Dec 2015

HIV program in Ndhiwa sub-county, Homa Bay

Kenya

To curb the HIV epidemic, “clear objectives and patience are the keys”

In June 2014, MSF started a pilot project in Ndhiwa, a sub-county in western Kenya, aiming to curb the HIV epidemic there: one adult in four is HIV-positive and 2 in 100 get infected every year. William Hennequin, MSF representative in Kenya, presents some of the project’s achievements and challenges. Voices from the Field - 2 Dec 2015

HIV SUPPORT GROUP COMMUNITY MAPUTO MOZAMBIQUE

Access to medicines

Stockouts: Testimonies from patients and medical staff

Testimonies from AIDS patients. “Once I was two weeks without my ARVs. When I arrived at the health centre I was told there was no nurse there and no one found an alternative solution for me, so I went back home empty handed and desperate, " Sanculani Langui, from Marara Centro, Tete province, Mozambique. Voices from the Field - 30 Nov 2015

Palestine

'What they see during the day, they dream at night.”

Occupied Minds looks at the mental health support offered to the Bedouin children of the Negev desert through the story of Mustafa. The boy is only 11 and he has already been detained for interrogation. He lives in a makeshift shed with 21 other people from his extended family. Voices from the Field - 27 Nov 2015

Pakistan

Delivering healthcare to women and children in the communities

Amy Le Compte is a midwife from Gisborne in New Zealand. She just returned from a six- month assignment in MSF Women's Hospital in Peshawar, in the north of Pakistan where, along with daily maternity work, she supported the launch of a new community outreach program to enable access to quality maternity care for poor and marginalised populations. Voices from the Field - 25 Nov 2015

Medical and mental healthcare for people displaced by violence in the Lake Chad area.

Lake Chad Crisis

“The only certainty is that people will remain uprooted and continue to live in fear”

Interview with MSF Director of Operations in the Lake Chad region about the effect of continued attacks by the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) group, also known as Boko Haram. “In the Lake Chad area, we are seeing a regional crisis with large-scale humanitarian consequences. People continue to flee from violence, across borders and inside their own countries." Voices from the Field - 23 Nov 2015

South Sudan

"The root cause of these illnesses is overcrowding and sub-standard living conditions"

Each time the three-month-old exhales, it makes a rasping sound as her breath forces its way through her tiny, infected lungs. When the infant cries, her body contorts with the effort of breathing. Until recently, she’s been connected to an oxygen machine to support her breathing. Voices from the Field - 18 Nov 2015

Ebola Survivor Health in Tonkolili, Sierra Leone, Oct 2015

Haemorrhagic fevers

“Science should be at the service of survivors”

Sierra Leone may be declared Ebola-free in early November, but caring for the country's 4,051 Ebola survivors remains a big challenge. Many survivors report joint pain and vision problems. Voices from the Field - 7 Nov 2015

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