In just a month, the number of COVID-19 cases in northwest Syria have increased 10-fold, putting added pressure on the health system and creating more challenges in an already-dire situation.
Project Update - 22 Sep 2020

Nader Owidat (Counselor Educator) is conducting a COVID-19 health promotion activity with children in Masafer Yatta, a collection of 19 Palestinian hamlets in the Hebron Governorate (West Bank).

Palestine

Tackling COVID-19 in Hebron, the epicentre of the outbreak in Palestine

MSF teams are supporting local health authorities in Hebron, Palestine, in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, in an area where a third of cases in the West Bank have been reported. Project Update - 21 Sep 2020

Ngudwini Area, King Cetshwayo District, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 and rural South Africa

Horrendous inequality, but also innovative initiatives, have been exposed during MSF's response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa's rural KwaZulu-Natal province. msf.org.za - 21 Sep 2020

Mediterranean migration

Detainment of fifth search and rescue ship in five months condemns people to die at sea

Misuse of maritime law is providing a smoke-screen for a political decision to prevent rescue ships from saving lives in the Mediterranean as the Sea-Watch 4 is detained by Italian port authorities. Press Release - 20 Sep 2020

MSF has to set up an emergency clinic to reach thousands of people affected by the fire that blazed and destroyed Moria.

"This baby is 10 days old.

Since #Moria fire she inhaled smoke, tear gas & has slept on the street without a tent for 4 days. She's been vomiting at night.

Is it right for babies, elderly & sick people to be left like this? #EU states, where are you?"

Mediterranean migration

“Enough is enough”: Time to stop the cycle of suffering for refugees on Greek islands

In the wake of fires that destroyed Moria camp, on Lesbos, Greece, MSF urges the European Union to immediately evacuate refugees, and change harmful migration policies. Project Update - 17 Sep 2020

Old Fangak market. The small rural village has become a refuge for thousands of people fleeing fighting along the Nile since 2014.

Marché de Old Fangak. Le petit village rural est devenu un refuge pour des milliers de personnes fuyant les combats le long du Nil depuis 2014.

About MSF

Challenging times in Old Fangak

blogs.msf.org - 17 Sep 2020

Home visits are part of the activities of the MSF mobile team in the indigenous villages of Aquidauana and Anastácio, in Mato Grosso do Sul. MSF nurse Erica Cravo checks the temperature of a family that remains in isolation after one of them was diagnosed with COVID-19.

Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF works to prevent spread of COVID-19 among indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul

Coronavirus COVID-19 has hit indigenous people in communities and villages across Brazil hard. MSF is in Mato Grosso do Sul state, providing consultations and home visits for people who have the virus. Project Update - 17 Sep 2020

An MSF team informs the population of Batangafo about the upcoming mass drug administration (MDA) to prevent malaria.

Central African Republic

In times of COVID-19, malaria remains the number one killer of children in CAR

While COVID-19 makes the headlines, malaria remains one of the biggest causes of death in the Central African Republic; it is the biggest killer of children under five. MSF teams are providing preventive medication to people in Batangafo, in the country's northwest. Project Update - 15 Sep 2020

A local resident of Machar Colony receiving soaps and reusable facemasks during a distribution by MSF in Machar Colony, Karachi.

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Snakes, ladders and COVID-19: Pakistan

blogs.msf.org - 14 Sep 2020

Myanmar

MSF hands over long-running HIV project in Yangon to ministry of health

After 26 years, MSF has handed over our HIV project in Yangon, Myanmar, to the Ministry of Health and Sports. Project Update - 10 Sep 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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Ten-fold increase in COVID-19 cases adds new challenges in northwest Syria