MSF teams have treated 163 patients with shrapnel, blast and other conflict-related injures at our Mocha trauma hospital in Yemen over a period of just 20 days.

Project Update - 6 Dec 2021

Kenya

Urgent solutions needed for refugees as camps set to close

With the planned closure of Kenya’s refugee camps, a precarious future awaits hundreds of thousands of Somalis. Press Release - 6 Dec 2021

Kenya

In search of dignity: Refugees in Kenya face a reckoning

A new Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) report outlines the potential dangers facing refugees in Kenya who will find themselves abandoned after camps close next year. Report - 6 Dec 2021

Seniors are waiting for medical care in the village of Vodiane.

Ukraine

Volunteers help fellow villagers access healthcare in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine

Volunteers are working with MSF in conflict-affected eastern Ukraine to help the elderly and vulnerable in the region access much-needed healthcare. Project Update - 3 Dec 2021

The rapid addition of inexperienced staff in an emergency situation, as happened in many hospitals during South Africa’s second COVID-19 wave, can produce challenges, which MSF witnessed first-hand in the field hospital at Ngwelezana Tertiary Hospital in northern KwaZulu-Natal. In this 113 bed COVID-19 facility MSF and Department of Health staff worked side by side from 11 January. To bring order to a potentially chaotic situation, the appointment of an experienced nurse activity manager to organize the facility was essential.

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

In an unequal world, our response to COVID-19 cannot be one size-fits-all

MSF Director of Operations Dr Isabelle Defourny explains why she believes that the "one-size-fits-all" approach to COVID-19 vaccination advocated for by the UN is misguided. Opinion - 3 Dec 2021

Climate emergency

A failure of ambition on climate action will amplify humanitarian needs

Humanitarian organisations are struggling to keep up with the demands of increasingly frequent, erratic, and overlapping crises at current levels of warming. bmj.com - 3 Dec 2021

Ma Sabai, 24, who was born with HIV and diagnosed at 17, waits for her appointment at MSF’s Moegaung clinic in Kachin state.

Myanmar

Myanmar: Political turmoil threatens HIV care

MSF Asia Pacific - 1 Dec 2021

Sarah*: Patiente VIH Habitante Kinshasa

Je suis arrivée ici en juillet, dans un état critique, j’étais inconsciente. Je n’avais même pas d’argent et Je ne pensais plus retrouver l’état de santé que j’ai présentement.
Avant mon admission ici, j’ignorais mon état sérologique. C'est après les examens ici à l'hôpital de Luyindu qu'on m'a informé que j’étais séropositive. Depuis, …J’ai été abandonnée par ma mère, en même temps mon mari est aussi parti. On l’a informé que j’étais séropositive. J’ai même été chassée de la maison familiale. Je vis actuellement dans une paroisse. …Heureusement pour moi, depuis le premier jour les médecins m’encouragent à bien suivre le traitement.J’ai reçu un bon traitement. Je garde espoir de retrouver toutes mes capacités, et la force de reprendre mes activités. L’accès aux soins et le suivi sont devenus faciles pour nous, du fait que les soins sont cette fois près de chez nous. Plus question de dépenser les frais de transport comme avant. C’est très bien pour nous qui vivons aux environs ici.

HIV/AIDS

DRC: People are still dying unnecessarily from HIV

Nearly half a million people are living with HIV in the DRC and thousands are dying unnecessarily - faced with this reality, we are strengthening the provision of HIV care in Kinshasa. Project Update - 1 Dec 2021

Patient A. Prun Kumar receives a vaccination at the Chakpikarong MSF clinic. MSF started providing specialised care for HIV and TB in Manipur in 2005 and 2007, respectively. At its three clinics in Chakpikarong, Churachandpur and Moreh, MSF provides screening, diagnosis and treatment for HIV, TB, Hepatitis C and co-infections. MSF, which is the only international NGO in Manipur, has put a patient-focused model of care at the heart of its operations in order to improve outcomes and minimise the spread of the diseases.

World AIDS Day

Why are people living with HIV still dying of AIDS?

It is unacceptable that people living with HIV are still dying because the tests, treatment and care for life-threatening infections are not available. Opinion - 1 Dec 2021

The inpatient ward in Al-Wahda hospital in Mosul when it was a COVID-19 treatment and isolation center

World Health Assembly

Pandemic preparedness and response: some lessons learnt

MSF shares lessons learned from decades of responding to outbreaks with WHO for a more people-centered approach to pandemic preparedness and response. Statement - 30 Nov 2021

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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Hundreds of people with shrapnel injures treated at trauma hospital in Mocha