During the six years of war in Yemen, many people have sought refuge in Marib governorate. However fighting in what was once a safe haven is now displacing people - who have little access to healthcare. Project Update - 11 Mar 2021

Gennaro is a specialist of water and sanitation. In the hospital, one of the key aims of his daily job is to protect hospital staff from being infected with the virus. Before going in a covid ward, he’s wearing a personal protective equipment for protecting himself and the colleagues of a risk of infection.

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

A year of a pandemic: our response to COVID-19 in pictures

For the last year, MSF teams around the world have been responding to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Here are our teams at work in pictures. Photo Story - 11 Mar 2021

The epidemic has had an enormous psychological impact on health workers in Manaus. MSF is trying to address that with mental health support at the José Rodrigues Emergency Unit (UPA) - in this photo - and 28 de Agosto hospital in Manaus, one of the biggest in the Amazonian capital. Psychological support is offered to all hospital staff, medical and non-medical.

What we are seeing is not only professionals who have had to deal with long shifts and a high number of patients, but also manage their own concerns about getting contaminated and contaminating their loved ones. Sometimes they have already experienced loss of family and friends but have to move on with their everyday duties, without time to mourn the ones who are gone.

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

One year of a pandemic

MSF's Brice de le Vingne reflects on our response to COVID-19, one year after WHO declared the outbreak of the new coronavirus a global pandemic. Opinion - 11 Mar 2021

Aerial view of the banner deployed by MSF in front of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva calling on certain governments to stop blocking the landmark waiver proposal on intellectual property (IP) during the pandemic.
March 04, 2021

Access to medicines

Countries obstructing COVID-19 patent waiver must allow negotiations to start

A small number of wealthy countries continue to block a waiver on intellectual property rights on COVID-19 tools, preventing wide-scale production that could save more lives. Press Release - 9 Mar 2021

30-year old Aster* is 8 months pregnant and has come for a consultation at MSF’s clinic at Primary School IDP camp. Two months ago, she fled Adi Heseray with her husband and two children. They were farmers. She says her house was burned down and all their belongings were taken.
“It was difficult to walk all the way to Shire, being pregnant and having a 6 and 4 year old. We live with the host community in Shire. They gave us a place to sleep and share their food with us. We did not know the family before. It is very difficult to be pregnant in this situation. Before the fighting, I often visited a doctor but since then I have received no medical checkup. In my town, all the drugs were taken, the health center was destroyed. I hope I will get medical assistance for this birth. My two other children were born at the hospital. We are very depressed. I have not received any food aid. We are getting some food from the people we are staying with. Sometimes, I beg. If they don’t give me anything, we sometimes sleep without food. It is difficult to be dependent. Before, I could do whatever I wanted. Now I feel stressed. I have nothing to eat for my children. It makes me empty inside. Before, the children had regular meals. Now they sometimes sleep without eating.”

Ethiopia

People in Tigray “are suffering from a lack of medical care”

Following violence, the crisis in the Tigray region of Ethiopia continues, with people in camps for the displaced - and those in rural areas - lacking food and access to medical care. Project Update - 5 Mar 2021

Illustration of women from various contexts and lived experiences, who all might seek self-care.

Women's health

Practicing self-care: empowering women to manage their own health

For International Women's Day, we explain how we empower women and girls around the world to practice self-care, by taking charge and managing their own health. Project Update - 4 Mar 2021

Mozambique

Displaced by violence, people in Cabo Delgado arrive in more mental than physical pain

Years of conflict and continual attacks on villages in Cabo Delgado province, in northeastern Mozambique, take a severe mental health toll on people, who are forced to flee. Interview - 4 Mar 2021

Syria

A decade of war in Syria: 10 years of increasing humanitarian needs

War has now been raging in Syria for 10 years. We outline the increasing humanitarian needs of millions of Syrians over the course of the war and our efforts to respond to them. Project Update - 3 Mar 2021

Syria

MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing

The security and safety situation in Al-Hol camp, northeastern Syria, has deteriorated, with more than 30 people - including MSF staff - killed since January. Press Release - 2 Mar 2021

DRC Ebola outbreaks

MSF responds in North Kivu to twelfth Ebola outbreak in DRC

Following a new outbreak of Ebola in DRC - the country's twelfth - MSF teams are responding in communities in North Kivu province, the site of the newest outbreak. Project Update - 25 Feb 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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Health needs grow for people in former safe haven of Marib