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Khost - Neonatal
Afghanistan

“My sister, I will take care of you”

Gynaecologist Dr Séverine Caluwaerts shares her unique insight into MSF’s maternity ward in Khost, eastern Afghanistan, and the stories of its patients and staff. Voices from the Field - 3 Oct 2018
 
Khost Comic Images
Afghanistan

Illustrating MSF’s busiest maternity ward

Illustrator Aurélie Neyret and her comic ‘Hila: Born in Afghanistan’ help tell the stories of patients and staff at MSF’s maternity ward in Khost, eastern Afghanistan. Project Update - 3 Oct 2018
 
Pregnant and HIV+ Mamotsieleli Molofotsane walks many hours to health center, Lesotho
Women's health

"I’ve seen with my own eyes, safe abortion saves women's lives"

Dr Manisha Kumar talks about her experience in the field with women needing access to safe abortion care and efforts to increase access to contraceptive and safe abortion care services offered by MSF projects. Interview - 27 Sep 2018
 
MSF activities in Masisi
Democratic Republic of Congo

48 hours on the frontline of maternity care

blogs.msf.org - 24 Sep 2018
 
Sexual and reproductive healthcare in Mrima Hospital
Kenya

Tales from MSF’s ‘Container Village’ in Likoni

While renovating and expanding the old Mrima health centre in Likoni, Kenya, MSF set up an innovative shipping-container facility where it offered sexual and reproductive health services, including caesarean sections. In the two and a half years it was operational before services were moved to the new facility in May 2018, MSF’s medical team assisted 11,578 deliveries in the ‘Container Village’. Photo Story - 16 Aug 2018
 
Sexual and Reproductive Health in the Community
Bangladesh

“This feels more like an emergency room than a normal delivery room”

In the makeshift settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, many Rohingya women give birth in their tents, limiting their medical options in case something goes wrong. MSF’s new maternity ward in Kutupalong, which will be able to withstand extreme weather, offers private rooms for new mothers and their babies, who face an uncertain future in Bangladesh. Project Update - 23 May 2018
 
Listening spaces in Diffa
Niger

In Diffa, listening spaces have been set up for and by women from the community

Three years ago, Fajimatou gave birth to her fourth child. Since then, she had been suffering from incontinence and regular urinary infections. Too embarrassed to raise this problem with the staff at the health post, she had kept it to herself. When she heard about the listening space for women set up by MSF in her village, it was a real relief. msf.lu - 4 May 2018
 
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Women's health

Malaria in pregnancy: a call for a safe, efficient, and patient-centred approach to first-trimester treatment

World Malaria Day 2018 is themed “Ready to beat malaria”, but circulated key talking points ignore an important group: pregnant women. Unpublished reports from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) programmes, in contexts where up to 50% of women attending antenatal care routinely test positive for malaria, suggest that current WHO recommendations on malaria in pregnancy cause confusion and may risk poor outcomes in this highly vulnerable population. The Lancet Global Health - 24 Apr 2018
 
Maternal and Child Health services in Douentza Hospital .
Mali

Medical services in northeastern Mali

Photo Story - 13 Mar 2018
 
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Website

Because I'm a woman

Women and girls forced to flee face health risks and further danger on their journey, simply because they are women. becauseimawoman.msf.org
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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