With fighting continuing in northeastern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, MSF is providing medical care to displaced people - but is hampered in scaling up assistance due to administrative barriers. Press Release - 3 Nov 2020

Yayai Logain with her children in MSF’s clinic in Pibor town. Two of Yayai’s children have measles. MSF has treated over 250 children for measles since admitting its first suspected case on 18 August 2020. As of November 2, 2020, vaccination campaign is yet to happen. The severity of the current measles outbreak being magnified by other illnesses like severe malaria, pneumonia and severe malnutrition as cycles of violence and ongoing flooding forced thousands of people from their homes.

South Sudan

Urgent vaccination campaign needed to stop spread of measles in Pibor

MSF raised the alarm about a measles outbreak in Pibor, South Sudan, in August but a vaccination campaign has yet to take place. Action is needed now. Press Release - 3 Nov 2020

A nurse from the Lotumbe General Reference Hospital has put his personal protective equipment and is about to visit a suspected Ebola case who has just been admitted to the Ebola Treatment Centre (ETC). The ETC was set up by MSF following the appearance of a few confirmed Ebola cases at the beginning of the epidemic in this area. Lotumbe.

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Un infirmier de l'Hôpital Général de Référence de Lotumbe a enfilé son équipement de protection individuel et s’apprête à rendre visite à un cas suspect Ebola qui vient d’être admis au Centre de Traitement Ebola (CTE). Ce CTE a été mis sur pied par MSF, suite à l'apparition de quelques cas confirmés Ebola au début de l'épidémie. Lotumbe.

DRC Ebola outbreaks

DRC's eleventh Ebola outbreak

On 18 November 2020, DRC declared over an outbreak of Ebola in Équateur province, which had been the country’s eleventh in 40 years, and the third in the last two years. Crisis Update - 3 Nov 2020

On May 16, fighting erupted in and around Pieri, a town in Jonglei State in northeastern South Sudan, which resulted in an estimated 200 people killed, tragically including one of our own team members, and another 300 people wounded. Over four days – from 16-20 May – MSF teams received and treated at total 63 wounded people in Lankien Hospital – including two of our team members. All had gunshot wounds.

The MSF 80-bed hospital in Lankien also provides obstetric and paediatric care, nutritional support and treatment for victims of sexual and gender-based violence, as well as treatment for HIV, TB and kala azar.

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Do you leave or do you stay: COVID-19 in South Sudan

blogs.msf.org - 1 Nov 2020

A rescued man watches as the Aquarius approaches the port of Catania, Sicily for disembarkation.
On the evening of January 15 and into the morning of January 16, the Aquarius rescued over 400 people - the youngest just 2 weeks old –from 5 different boats. During the rescue of the third boat around 10 people fell into the sea. They were all recovered by the rescue team. The Italian Coast Guard coordinated a total of 11 operations in the area on the same day, with over 1,400 people.
On the evening of January 16 the Aquarius took a further 67 women and men onboard who were rescued earlier that day by a Spanish military ship. All 505 people were safely disembarked in Catania, Sicily.

Italy

“The survivors share the memory of the big wave that threw them into the water”

An MSF psychologist talks about the survivors of a recent shipwreck in the Mediterranean. They chose the risky sea crossing over certain death in Libya. Voices from the Field - 29 Oct 2020

Majd Osama, 23 years old from Syria, married and has a daughter. Majd is receiving medical care in COVID-19 treatment centre in Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees. “One day I woke up feeling feverish and I was referred to MSF COVID-19 hospital, I have been in the MSF hospital for two days, I don’t cough and I do not have a runny nose and the fever is gone. God will help me, I’m not worried.”

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF responds as COVID-19 arrives in Jordan’s largest refugee camp

Given the often rapid spread of diseases inside refugee camps, MSF is providing medical care for coronavirus COVID-19 to refugees in Zaatari camp, Jordan. Project Update - 28 Oct 2020

Colombia

MSF responds to a resurgence of violence in Norte de Santander and Nariño

MSF is providing general and mental healthcare in Colombia’s Norte de Santander and Nariño, where violence has led to mass displacements and confinements Project Update - 28 Oct 2020

Speaking Out videos: MSF and the Rohingya 1992 - 2014

Speaking Out videos: MSF and the Rohingya 1992 - 2014 - 28 Oct 2020

Mariam Maïga, holding her son and his vaccination card after his measles vaccination. Arnassaye, one of the outlying vaccination sites.

Mali

Prevention is better than cure – vaccinating against measles in Timbuktu

MSF and the Ministry of health recently vaccinated 50,000 children against measles in Timbuktu, Mali, where displacement and violence mean coverage is low. Project Update - 27 Oct 2020

Syria

Dozens of people treated following an airstrike in Idlib

Dozens of people have been treated at a hospital co-managed by MSF, following an airstrike in a relatively stable part of Idlib governorate, northwest Syria. Project Update - 26 Oct 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.

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Urgent assistance needed for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by violence in Mozambique