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Ocean Viking - Rotation 3 - Rescue 3
Mediterranean migration

European leaders must urgently allow disembarkation of 104 survivors

SOS MEDITERRANEE and MSF call on European countries to urgently help assign a port of safety to the Ocean Viking and to finally establish a coordinated disembarkation mechanism for future rescues. Press Release - 28 Oct 2019
 
IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno state
Nigeria

Northeast Nigeria: Now is not the time to question lifesaving assistance

A decade of conflict in northeast Nigeria has disrupted the lives of millions of people. MSF is committed to providing medical care - but aid must be delivered impartially and neutrally to all, without fear of attacks on humanitarian workers or civilians. Statement - 25 Oct 2019
 
MSF HOSPITAL, IDLIB Region, SYRIA
Syria

Multiple casualties from shelling on village in northwestern Syria

Shelling on a village in Idlib province, northwestern Syria, has resulted in a number of deaths and multiple people taken to hospital, amid fear and displacement of people. Project Update - 25 Oct 2019
 
Floods in Pibor
South Sudan

“The only way to move around the hospital now is by boat”

Severe floods in Pibor, eastern South Sudan, are continuing to impact people and MSF’s ability to provide lifesaving services. Voices from the Field - 25 Oct 2019
 
Floods in Pibor
South Sudan

People stranded, cut off from care in severe flooding in South Sudan

MSF teams are responding as thousands of people have been left stranded in parts of east and northeast South Sudan in the wake of severe flooding. Press Release - 21 Oct 2019
 
Bardarash refugee camp
Iraq

MSF providing medical care in Iraq to people fleeing northeast Syria

MSF teams have started working inside two areas in Iraq, responding to the medical needs - including mental health needs - of people fleeing the conflict and Turkish incursion in northeast Syria. Statement - 21 Oct 2019
 
Mexico: Migrants are exposed to danger in Reynosa, Tamaulipas
Mexico

Migration policies that kill

Carol Bottger, MSF medical coordinator has just spent a year in Mexico. In this interview, she discusses the impact of regional migration policies. Interview - 18 Oct 2019
 
Treatment of mental disorders in non-specialized health settings
Mental health

Treating mental health outside of specialised settings

In an effort to address challenges of providing adequate mental health support to people, MSF has implemented the Mental Health Gap programme in two clinics in northern Lebanon. Project Update - 17 Oct 2019
 
Migrants and refugees in Zintan and Gharyan detention centres in Libya
Libya

Closure of detention centre exposes migrants and refugees to even worse conditions

Following the closure of a detention centre in Misrata, refugees and migrants moved to other facilities in Libya are exposed to increasingly inhumane conditions.

Press Release - 17 Oct 2019
 
Hospital Mobile Clinic Matchika Bambari CAR
Medical resource

International medical guides: practical tools for the field

MSF has launched new editions of "Clinical guidelines" and "Essential drugs", available in several languages for use in MSF projects and beyond. MSF medical resource - 17 Oct 2019
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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