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Darha area in central Tripoli.
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Conflict and COVID-19 adds up to a crisis within a crisis in Libya

The combination of several worrying developments, including an escalating armed conflict, and the arrival of the coronavirus COVID-19 is creating a crisis within a crisis in Libya. Photo Story - 2 Jun 2020
 
Ihor Skalko.
Hepatitis C

Increasing access to hepatitis C treatment in Ukraine

Around 3.6 per cent of Ukrainians live with hepatitis C, well above the estimated European average of 1.5 per cent. Hepatitis C is a major cause of chronic liver disease globally. Project Update - 2 Jun 2020
 
The special centre for COVID-19 patients has a maximum capacity of 22 beds with oxygen intakes: 16 hospital beds and 6 intensive care beds with mechanical ventilation.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF opens COVID-19 centre in Venezuela

MSF doctors, nurses, and transport maintenance staff have joined forces with staff from Venezuela's Ana Francisca Pérez de León II in the capital Caracas to set up a COVID-19 treatment centre. Project Update - 29 May 2020
 
Julie (left), a former MSF field nurse and now volunteering in the Covid-19 project in Tour and Taxis, and Houria (MSF health promoter), getting dressed with protective equipment before entering into the patients area.

MSF COVID-19 Crisis Fund

In the face of this unprecedented global crisis, MSF has created the COVID-19 Crisis Fund, to raise urgently-needed money for our emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
MSF Medical Doctor Anna-Clara Ivrasson in consultation with a young patient in the measles ward of Bossangoa Hospital. Bossangoa was at the epicentre of the measles outbreak when this picture was taken.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Continuing essential medical services during COVID-19

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt in every one of MSF’s projects. Since the beginning, our priority has been to keep existing essential medical services up and running. Project Update - 28 May 2020
 
MSF mobile team collects samples of healthcare workers at Krasnohorivka hospital, in Eastern Ukraine, to test for COVID-19.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Unregulated market for personal protective equipment puts lives at risk

MSF has urged for regulation and increased production of personal protective equipment in all countries to protect healthcare staff and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Press Release - 28 May 2020
 
MSF nurse during screening activities with Warao people (indegenous group from Venezuela) at a shelter in Manaus, Brazil.
Brazil

MSF responds to the COVID-19 pandemic in Amazonas

The state of Amazonas is among the regions with the highest absolute number of deaths caused by the COVID-19 Brazil. MSF is scaling up its work to respond to the pandemic. Press Release - 27 May 2020
 
Dayana Tabbarah, MSF health promoter, and Hala Hussein, MSF nurse, in the streets of Burj al-Barajneh camp, Beirut. Together, they visit houses of patients who have agreed to participate in the shielding approach recently put in place by MSF in the camp. The project is still in its pilot phase: six families, who were already part of MSF’s home-based care cohort, accepted to practice shielding.

المرشدة الصحية مع منظّمة أطباء بلا حدود دايانا طبارة، والممرضة مع منظّمة أطباء بلا حدود هالة حسين، تجوبان شوارع مخيم برج البراجنة في بيروت. معاً، تزوران منازل المرضى الذين وافقوا على المشاركة في برنامج الحماية الوقائية الذي وضعته أطباء بلا حدود مؤخراً في المخيم. لا يزال المشروع في مرحلته التجريبية: وافقت ستّ عائلات، كانت مسبقاً ضمن المجموعة التي تتلقى الرعاية المنزلية من المنظّمة، على تنفيذ ممارسات الحماية الوقائية.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Offering extra protection against COVID-19 to Lebanon’s most vulnerable

MSF is visiting homes in refugee camps in Lebanon, to provide health awareness and education on coronavirus COVID-19 to high-risk and vulnerable people and families. Project Update - 26 May 2020
 
El equipo de MSF visita la Residencia Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de El Royo (Soria). // MSF in the elderly care home (Residencia Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes) in El Royo, Soria province.
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

MSF concludes COVID-19 response in Spain

After two months of activities, MSF has ended our response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, but urges authorities to ensure the continued dignified treatment of the elderly. Press Release - 25 May 2020
 
People walk around a compound in Pulka town, northeast Nigeria, where MSF runs a hospital.
Nigeria

MSF statement on inquiry in Borno, Nigeria

MSF issues a statement on our colleague who has been ill in Borno state, Nigeria Statement - 22 May 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)

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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