"It's not easy to provide care in an environment that's constantly changing, particularly from a security perspective. But we have shown it's possible, and I hope other organisations will follow suit" - Assistant Head of Mission Reshma Adatia. Project Update - 23 Jan 2007

Somalia

After a week of intense fighting in Somalia, MSF is extremely concerned about the security of medical staff and safety of patients

Over the past week, the international humanitarian organisation MSF has treated approximately 250 people wounded during the ongoing fighting in Somalia. Following a serious incident in an MSF medical facility in Dinsor, Somalia on Wednesday the 27th December, MSF is urging all warring parties to respect international law and guarantee the safety of health facilities, patients and staff. Press Release - 28 Dec 2006

Mental health

Kashmir: Violence and mental health

A quantitative assessment on violence, the psychosocial and general health status of the Indian Kashmiri population. Report - 14 Dec 2006

Chad

Caring for refugees and displaced people amid deteriorating security

While challenged with the deteriorating security situation, MSF continues to provide medical, nutritional and psychosocial assistance to tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur. MSF teams are witnessing an increase in attacks and looting of villages close to the border. Many people have been wounded and thousands have been forced onto the roads. Some have had to flee a second time and are living, once more, in a precarious situation as the violence extends its reach in the region. Project Update - 23 Nov 2006

Chad

Thousands displaced after fresh violence hits villages in southeast Chad

The attacks took place relatively deep inside Chad, about 80 km (50 miles) from the border with Sudan. Project Update - 21 Nov 2006

Sudan

A crisis of human suffering

The situation has certainly changed since I was in Darfur over two years ago... Today MSF has had to reduce its activities due to intensified fighting and mounting insecurity throughout Darfur.
An interview with MSF International Council President, Dr. Rowan Gillies. Project Update - 14 Nov 2006

South Sudan

MSF provides assistance to 50,000 newly displaced in south Darfur

When MSF's mobile teams were able to move around, they found civilians shot and beaten, villages largely burned to the ground, water points damaged beyond repair, food stocks destroyed, and despair over suddenly shattered lives and communities. Project Update - 12 Nov 2006

Sri Lanka

MSF withdraws from Jaffna Peninsula

All medical activities of MSF are suspended. Project Update - 19 Oct 2006

Russia

Helping to reconstruct those damaged by war in Chechnya

MSF works with prominent Chechen surgeons, like Professor Yandarov (left), and Dr Khunarikov (right), a vascular specialist, coordinates the program. Both men worked in Chechnya during some of the heaviest phases of the war, living in basements and operating on patients in makeshift field-hospitals and administrative buildings. Project Update - 11 Oct 2006

Sudan

What impact does the security situation have on MSF work in Darfur

Interview between Denis Lemasson, Operations Desk for MSF in France and Bruno Jochum, Director of Operations for MSF in the Switzerland office. Voices from the Field - 17 Sep 2006

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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Returning to Galcayo, central Somalia