One case of Ebola has been confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the Likati health zone of Bas Uele Province in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo. A total of nine cases, including three deaths are so far being investigated. Project Update - 12 May 2017

Ciudad Hidalgo is the first town many migrants see when they enter Mexico from Guatemala after crossing the Suchiate river. The train doesn't work from here, so they need to walk for hours.

Central American migration

Forced to flee Central America's Northern Triangle: A Neglected Humanitarian Crisis

For millions of people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, fear and horrific violence are dominant facets of daily life in which they try flee, heading north. MSF surveyed migrants and refugees making their way through Mexico to learn their reasons for leaving and the level of violence they experienced along the way. Report - 12 May 2017

William carries Gloria to the police station where they will report a violent assault, suffered on the route from the Guatemalan border into Mexico. For Gloria, it´s her first attempt to cross to the US – both her sister and cousin live there.
Her husband William did the route six years ago. Both Gloria and William had to leave Honduras because of death threats from maras (local gangs).

Central American migration

No way to safety for people fleeing extreme violence in Central America’s Northern Triangle

"The unrelenting violence and emotional suffering endured by a significant number of people... is not unlike what is experienced by people in conflict zones." Press Release - 12 May 2017

South Sudan

Fighting and deplorable conditions in Aburoc force 20,000 people to flee

"The reasons why we are leaving are mainly the lack of security and the lack of food and water." Project Update - 11 May 2017

Diffa region. Chetimari IHC, supported by MSF. Screening for cases of malnutrition by the medical staff at the IHC.

Niger

Diffa - the burden of violence

"I had to leave one place after the other due to repeated attacks." Project Update - 10 May 2017

Besam’s child is 7 months old. She brought him to the health center because he keeps vomiting and has diarrhea and fever. The child is malnurished and according to the doctor, such cases happen very often: « mothers stop breastfeeding and replace their milk with powder one but the water isn’t clean and the children get sick. We have to cure the sickness and they get immediately healthy again ».

Yemen

MSF calls for increased response to cholera outbreak

"We are very concerned that the disease will continue to spread and become out of control." Press Release - 9 May 2017

The strike on Tafas field hospital, some 12 km from the Jordanian border, took place on the night of 5 February. It caused partial damage to the hospital building, and put its heavily-used ambulance service out of action. In fear for their lives, more than 20,000 people from Tafas town fled to the surrounding countryside. The hospital is the latest medical facility to be hit in a series of airstrikes in southern Syria, which have been escalating over the past two months.

Syria

"MSF adapts to respond to the needs of a war-afflicted population"

Omar Obeid has been working as Project Coordinator for an MSF South Syria project, managing it remotely for the last 14 months. Over the past few weeks, fighting has intensified in southern Syria, as opposing forces contest to retake the city of Dara’a. As bombings and aerial attacks in Eastern Dara’a increased, hospitals and medical structures in the area have been forced to announce their closure to avoid being targeted Voices from the Field - 8 May 2017

MSF staff member Patricia, changes 5 year old Faten's bandages. She was injured when she was playing in a garden. At the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Post Op Hospital South of Mosul, Iraq.

Told by her father:

“When our neighbourhood in West Mosul was retaken by the Iraqi army we went back to our house. Faten was playing in the garden when a mortar bomb fell in the garden and exploded. Faten was injured in the leg by shrapnel from the bomb. First we took her to MSF in Hammam Al Alil where she received the first aid. From there she was referred to another field hospital in Bartella for further treatment. Now she is here in the post-operative ward in Hamdanyia hospital. Every day the staff here clean her wounds and puts new bandages on. Faten is a brave girl, she likes to play and laugh butt she misses her brothers and sisters at home and at night she cries. All her 7 siblings are doing well, praise to God”.

Iraq

Crisis update Mosul - May 2017

“Most hospitals in Mosul have been damaged or destroyed.” Crisis Update - 8 May 2017

Syria

MSF condemns incursion by armed men into supported hospitals in East Ghouta

Reports from doctors MSF supports in the area outline grave incidents on 29 and 30 April in which armed groups showed absolutely no consideration for the special protected status of patients, medical facilities and health workers. Statement - 1 May 2017

On April 27th 2016, dozens of volunteers from Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) delivered to Pfizer global headquarter in New York, the names of nearly 400 000 people asking Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to 5 dollars per child in developing countries. The silent march started from Grand Central Station and ended at Pfizer HQ. There the volunteers dropped 2500 flowers (the equivalent of the number of children dying of pneumonia every day) in an empty crib containing the names of people who has signed the petition. Pfizer accepted the crib. On this picture Doctors Without Borders volunteers and supporters drop 2500 flowers into an empty crib in front of Pfizer global Headquarter.

Vaccination

Investors join MSF in calling Pfizer to reduce the price of pneumonia vaccine

"We call on Pfizer to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to $5 for all three doses, for all children in all developing countries.” Press Release - 27 Apr 2017

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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Team dispatched following Ebola confirmation