Three displaced people in northwest Syria recount their struggles, frustrations and fears as COVID-19 cases rise against the backdrop of an economic crisis. Project Update - 11 Nov 2020

Giir, 29-years-old, examines samples of COVID-19 suspected cases in the National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL) in Juba. Giir supervises a team of eight biotechnologists of the NPHL’s reception area to where the samples are brought for testing from all over the country. After the samples are registered and coded, they are send to an extraction room where another technician will determine whether the sample is positive for COVID-19 virus.

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Governments must demand pharma make all COVID-19 vaccine deals public

With billions of dollars of tax payer money being poured into the development coronavirus vaccines, the deals from pharmaceutical companies are being kept largely secret, raising concerns. Press Release - 11 Nov 2020

A family in their tent in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Sittwe, February 2, 2013. photo by Kaung Htet

MSF Speaking Out

MSF and the Rohingya 1992-2014 (PDF, 4.8 MB)

https://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/2020-11/socs-rohingya-en_0.pdf - 10 Nov 2020

Epidemiologist Gaston trains and helps local staff at the Le Temps d'un Soir health centre in Mbandaka on how to put the protective equipments donated by MSF to improve protection and infection control in this health centre, which has had eight confirmed Ebola cases at the start of the epidemic. Mbandaka, Equateur Province, DRC, 27 October 2020.

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L’épidémiologiste Gaston forme et aide le personnel local du centre de santé Le Temps d’un Soir de Mbandaka à enfiler les équipements de protection donnés par MSF pour améliorer la protection et le contrôle des infections dans ce centre de santé qui a connu 8 cas confirmés Ebola au début de l’épidémie. Mbandaka, Equateur, RDC, 27 octobre 2020.

DRC Ebola outbreaks

New strategies at work in eleventh Ebola outbreak in DRC

In an interview, Guyguy Manangama who is leading MSF's Ebola response in Équateur province, describes the eleventh outbreak, which has lower levels of mortality than the previous outbreak. Interview - 4 Nov 2020

In the beginning of September, MSF teams offered medical consultations through their mobile clinic at Impire Village to respond to a diarrhea outbreak. As Impire is 9km south of the Health Center in Nanlia, northern Mozambique, where MSF has set up a Diarrhea Treatment Center, the IDPs and host communities were only reachable through the mobile clinic. MSF managed to reduce the number of diarrhea cases and provide health services to both IDPs and the host community.

Mozambique

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

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

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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Taking risks to survive as COVID-19 spreads in the northwest