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Democratic Republic of Congo

A delayed arrival in Katanga

In Dubie, they start to prepare for a caesarean section, but during the car ride to the hospital, Chantal regained consciousness. Voices from the Field - 23 May 2007
 
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Haiti

Emergency obstetrical care in Haiti, where maternal mortality is highest in western world

Before opening on March 15, the team publicized the hospital's services in the violent slum areas of Port-au-Prince using flyers, posters, graffiti and street banners. Photo Story - 28 Mar 2006
 
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Haiti

Treating bullet wounds and delivering babies

Two women in the maternity yard's waiting room. Since the beginning of the MSF intervention in Choscal, 400 children have been delivered.
"It is difficult to work in this area," says Loris de Filippi, the MSF head of Mission. "But we found it simply unacceptable that a population of a quarter million, the equivalent of a small European city, would be cut off from medical care."
Project Update - 27 Dec 2005
 
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Afghanistan

Lack of maternal health care in Afghanistan

This is an edited version of a letter that first appeared in The Lancet. Project Update - 22 Mar 2004
 
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India

MSF develops local counsellors for mental health programme

With an official death toll expected to be in excess of 20,000 and devastation and personal loss having struck nearly every family in the earthquake region, one of the crucial aspects of the MSF intervention in Bhuj and the surrounding area is the development of mental health programmes to assist the local population come to terms with the consequences of the recent earthquake. Project Update - 12 Feb 2001
 
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Women's health

Female genital cutting

MSF strongly opposes the practice of any form of female circumcision on the basis of the contravention of human rights which the practice represents, and its adverse health consequences. Project Update - 13 Sep 1999
 
The waiting room in ward 4C where MSF's cervical cancer project is located at Queens Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi.
Medical activities

Women's health

An estimated 99 per cent of women who die in childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications live in developing countries. Most of these deaths are preventable. Topic
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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