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Women's health

Sentenced to injury and shame

Video: Sentenced to injury and shame Project Update - 7 Mar 2011
 
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Women's health

The other Butterfly Effect: MSF treats women injured in childbirth

An estimated two million women live with fistula worldwide, most in Africa. This problem is largely hidden because it often affects young women who live in poor and remote areas, with very limited to no access maternal health care. Project Update - 7 Mar 2011
 
A Somali baby is being weighed in the MSF health care clinic in Dagahaley Refugee Camp, Dadaab. The health clinic operates for 25 000 people or anyone who cannot reach the hospital.
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Somalia

In a Somaliland camp, a triple blessing amidst ongoing hardship

“I thought my time had come too,” she recalls. “I said goodbye to everyone who visited me and asked them for forgiveness. I never thought that I would survive.”
MSF’s outreach team found Fardows while surveying the Shadaha camp for people in need of emergency medical attention. They took her to hospital, where she learned she was pregnant with triplets.
Voices from the Field - 13 Dec 2010
 
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Pakistan

Letter from the field: One day in my life - A midwife in Balochistan, Pakistan

Olivia Lowe is a midwife working in Kuchlak, near Quetta in Pakistan's volatile Balochistan province. She manages the antenatal and postnatal care as well as the birthing unit at MSF's mother and child healthcare centre in Kuchlak. This is her first MSF mission. Voices from the Field - 20 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
 
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Pakistan

Where childbirth is a deadly part of life

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) set up its project in Kuchlak, in Pakistan’s south western Balochistan province, to assist Afghan refugees who face socio-economic exclusion and restricted access to health care, particularly for women and children. Project Update - 10 Dec 2009
 
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Chad

100 women operated for obstetric fistula so far this year in Chad

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been running a fistula project in Abéché General Hospital in eastern Chad since January 2008, where a team performs surgical operations on patients to repair their internal injuries and provide a cure for their incontinence. Project Update - 21 Sep 2009
 
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Haiti

Pregnant women desperate for free emergency obstetric care in Haiti

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams are struggling to provide free quality emergency care to pregnant women and their babies in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Press Release - 7 Nov 2008
 
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Sierra Leone

MSF reduces its presence in Sierra Leone

Over the past few years, MSF has provided medical care in several locations across the country, particularly focusing on pregnant women and children under five. Project Update - 16 Aug 2007
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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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