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Nurses of the Ministry of Health receive training in Sangker operational district, ahead of the relaunch of the hepatitis C nursing activity pilot, where nurses will lead the care of hepatitis C patients.
In addition to skills related to hepatitis C, new measures around infection prevention control regarding COVID-19 are taught.

Until the end of June 2020, just 141 cases were confirmed in Cambodia, and a quarter of them originates from a European tourist group in March. The authorities were quick to implement thorough contact tracing and asked our teams to help with this. We’ve also contributed to the new IPC and clinical guidelines for Cambodia and developed training units. Subsequently, about 300 staff members of hospitals run by the Ministry of health received training. Given the difficulty of importing medical equipment, the team is now trying innovative approaches to develop oxygen ventilation systems by using commercially available diving masks and 3D-printing the necessary connectors in the country in anticipation of an outbreak of COVID-19 in Cambodia.
Cambodia

Innovation needed to respond to COVID-19 in Cambodia

So far, 141 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Cambodia. With the outbreak of the new coronavirus, MSF teams had to quickly halt regular hepatitis C activities to prevent patients from being infected with the virus during visits to the clinic. Project Update - 7 Jul 2020
 
Grozny, Chechnya, Russian Federation. Republican TB Dispensary. Zaurbek, 64, has been on treatment for XDR TB since July 2016. He was also diagnosed with Hepatitis C. At first he had severe side effects, but now his condition has improved considerably. He has been cured of hepatitis and his TB treatment is going well. He’s on a regimen containing two new TB drugs – Bedaquiline and Delamanid. ‘At first it was tough, I could hardly walk, was short of breath. Now I’m much better, I can go out. You can see me, I’m alive! I have 12 grandchildren, how can I leave them?’
Access to medicines

Governments must scale up better TB treatment as J&J drops crucial drug price

Pharma company J&J has announced that they've dropped the price of crucial DR-TB drug bedaquiline by nearly a third; but MSF says the price must come down further and access expanded. Press Release - 6 Jul 2020
 
Dr Kate Goulding and colleagues assist a patient from an ambulance outside the Sinuni General Hospital in Sinjar Province, north western Iraq.
Iraq

2019 MSF Iraq annual report

The 2019 MSF Iraq annual report provides an overview on all MSF activities in Iraq during the year. Report - 6 Jul 2020
 
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Lebanon

COVID-19 and economic downfall reveal migrant workers’ mental health crisis in Lebanon

In the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown and the economic crisis in Lebanon, the mental health and well-being of migrant workers has severely deteriorated. Report - 3 Jul 2020
 
people waiting at Ayilo MSF hospital, Adjumani, Uganda
Women's health

Women and girls face greater dangers during COVID-19 pandemic

During COVID-19, MSF teams all over the world are seeing the challenges women face in accessing essential sexual and reproductive health services. We know the consequences can be deadly and we fear a massive increase in maternal and neonatal mortality. Project Update - 2 Jul 2020
 
Woman and children walk past makeshift showers and latrines in Metuge camp for displaced people.
Mozambique

“It was like the end of the world” during attack in northern Mozambique

A little-known violent conflict in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado is leaving people caught in the crossfire; an MSF staff member recounts a terrifying experience of being forced to flee. Voices from the Field - 30 Jun 2020
 
Abu Fadel, Hassan and Iman… all three are living in Idlib Governorate in northwest Syria. Like 2.7 million other Syrians, they’d been displaced within the country several times, and a part of them ended up in Idlib. The last rebel stronghold, bombed in massive airstrikes led by the Syrian army and its allies, Idlib has become home to a population nine years of war have left shattered, impoverished and without hope for the future. Their backs against the Turkish border, Abu Fadel, Hassan and Iman recount similar stories of everyday life­­—the interminable waiting, fear and horror of war in what is an open-air prison.

In mid-June, the airstrikes resumed in Idlib Governorate, the target this time the zone west of Maarat-al-Numan. Most people in opposition-controlled areas in this Governorate are living in poverty, and many have moved from towns to camps around Dana, Sarmada and Atmeh where MSF teams provide assistance. The displaced talk of an environment of corruption, crime and social violence, and the area where they have taken refuge continues to shrink with the passing months and the Syrian regime’s relentless attacks.
Syria

Life in an open-air prison: living under the bombs in Idlib

In mid-June 2020, the airstrikes resumed in Idlib governorate, Syria. Abou Fadel, Hassan and Iman, three displaced within the country several times, recount similar stories of life in an open-air prison. Voices from the Field - 29 Jun 2020
 
Patients wait at San Vicente clinic.

San Vicente clinic, in Andrés Eloy Blanco Municipality of Sucre State, is one of the five "hot spots" where there is a high incidence of malaria cases. The health centre operates 24 hours a day and serves an agricultural community. MSF provides assistance in not only the area of malaria diagnosis, treatment and prevention, but also in training of medical and non-medical staff, data registration, water and sanitation, provision of supplies and health promotion.

El Ambulatorio de San Vicente, del Municipio Andrés Eloy Blanco del Estado Sucre, es uno de los cinco puntos calientes donde hay alta incidencia de casos de malaria. El centro de salud atiende a una comunidad exclusivamente agrícola. MSF proporciona ayuda no solo en el área de diagnóstico, tratamiento y prevención de paludismo, sino también en capacitación de equipos médicos y no médicos, registro de datos, agua y saneamiento, rehabilitación de infraestructuras, dotación de insumos y promoción a la salud.
Venezuela

MSF helps fight against malaria in Venezuela’s Sucre state

MSF teams are providing support to healthcare centres in Sucre state, on Venezuela's northern coast, where malaria is endemic and health structures are in need of improvement. Project Update - 29 Jun 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)

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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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