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Streets and shops in Dahst-e-Barchi neighborhood.
Afghanistan

Patients face persistent insecurity amid “peace process”

Persistent insecurity remains a near-constant barrier to accessing healthcare in Afghanistan and has increased since the intra-Afghan talks in Doha began. Project Update - 16 Dec 2020
 
MSF’s response is being led by three multidisciplinary health teams, with a focus on community shelters and people living on the streets. In addition to this, the services in regular MSF projects, sexual and reproductive health in Choloma and comprehensive healthcare for survivors of violence in Tegucigalpa, are still active.

The teams have identified the lack of access to priority sexual violence comprehensive medical care inside the shelters, and MSF is the only organisation caring for mental health in Choloma for people affected by the hurricanes.
Honduras

MSF steps up medical care in response to humanitarian crisis in Honduras

Hurricanes Eta and Iota have left 250,000 people in Honduras with limited access to healthcare. Many health centres are closed or not fully operational. Press Release - 16 Dec 2020
 
In Eshowe in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province, MSF assisted the department of health with establishing help desks outside clinics - triage points where all who wish to enter are screened using a screening tool, and possible COVID-19 patients are then referred to a separate tent for testing.
Access to medicines

Governments must act fast on consensus supporting historic move to suspend monopolies during pandemic

Ahead of an important World Trade Organisation meeting, MSF advocates consensus supporting move to suspend monopolies during COVID-19 pandemic. Press Release - 15 Dec 2020
 
Treating a child during an outreach activity in Maiduguri
Nigeria

Extra-long malaria season in Borno claims lives

MSF teams in Nigeria’s Borno state have witnessed a spike in malaria cases, even into the dry season. Project Update - 14 Dec 2020
 
The Operating theatre at MSF’s trauma centre in Mocha, in the Red Sea Coast region of Yemen. The surgeons provide life and limb saving surgery for war wounded, traffic accident victims, and pregnant women needing emergency surgical delivery. Since late November 2020, the overwhelming majority of patients have been war-wounded civilians.
Yemen

Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities

Renewed conflict to the south of Hudaydah Port in Yemen has led to rising numbers of civilians needing war-trauma surgery. Most are women and children. Press Release - 14 Dec 2020
 
Switzerland, COVID-19 response in Intensive care unit of HUG. April 14, 2020. ©Nora Teylouni / MSF
Photo story

A year in pictures 2020

MSF's A Year in Pictures collection for 2020 looks back on 12 months of providing medical care in extreme conditions and contexts across the globe. Photo Story - 11 Dec 2020
 
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Lantana is an orphan, and is here with his grandmother in MSF Shinkafi hospital,in the paediatric ward of Shinkafi hospital, Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria.
Nigeria

Killings, looting and abductions in Zamfara state

People in Nigeria’s Zamfara state face daily violence and attacks and struggle to find food, water, shelter and basic items. MSF calls for assistance. Project Update - 9 Dec 2020
 
The Afro Colombian communities of Nariño rely on the river for many aspects of daily life.
Colombia

Getting closer to Colombia’s conflict

Four years after the peace agreement between the government and the FARC group, the humanitarian situation in Narino, southwest Colombia, is outrageous. Voices from the Field - 4 Dec 2020
 
Families seeking shelter in abandoned shops and factories in Bentiu town, in South Sudan. January 2020.
South Sudan

Fear of violence, poor living conditions in South Sudan’s largest displacement camp

People in South Sudan's Bentiu Protection of Civilian's site fear regional violence and worry that the UN mission's withdrawal will leave them unprotected. Project Update - 3 Dec 2020
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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