With people returning to Hawija, northern Iraq, after years of conflict, MSF is filling the gaps in the local healthcare system, providing treatment including for chronic and non-communicable diseases. Project Update - 26 Mar 2019

Yemen

People unable to access lifesaving care amid heavy fighting in Taiz city

Three MSF-supported facilities have received 49 war wounded and 2 dead, while the total number of people in need of assistance is unknown after four days of intense fighting in the Yemeni city of Taiz. Statement - 24 Mar 2019

A doctor checks a patient x-ray in her office at one of Kara-Suu's TB Cabinets. Kara-Suu region.

Tuberculosis

Video innovation helps TB patients comply with their treatment

An innovative approach using video link-up allows MSF doctors and nurses, and tuberculosis patients confidently navigate the often difficult treatment - without patients having to daily leave home. Voices from the Field - 22 Mar 2019

Teresa is one fo the cooks within the staff compound in Doro, an exceptional cook she is able to make the most amazing traditional dishes from the very basic ingredients available. Teresa was very sadly in mourning as her husband had recently passed away, we were under strict instructions from an elder that we could not ask her to smile, but if she smiled on her own it was OK.

Water and sanitation

Water: source of health and dignity

Two billion people regularly drink dirty water, potentially contracting waterborne diseases. Collecting water mostly falls to women, often making them vulnerable. MSF’s watsan teams play a key role in responding to crises.

Photo Story - 21 Mar 2019

Somalia

Addressing health needs of women and children in Baidoa

In Somalia, maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world. In Baidoa, southern Somalia, MSF teams are working to improve the lives of pregnant women and babies. Project Update - 21 Mar 2019

Refugees and migrants detained in the detention centre get rice or pasta for lunch and dinner. For breakfast people receive bread with some cheese. Food is prepared in-house and is served in large metal bowls to be shared by five to 10 people.

Libya

Alarming rates of malnutrition and inhumane conditions in Tripoli detention centre

One in four refugees and migrants being held in a Libyan detention centre are malnourished or underweight, an MSF assessment shows, provoking calls to improve the inhumane conditions. Press Release - 20 Mar 2019

Scenes of destruction in Beira city.

MSF response to flooding in Mozambique after the flooding that affected Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe in Southern Africa.

Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

“A lot of water” - on the ground after Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

MSF emergency coordinator Gert Verdonck, shares his first impressions of the scene of devastation in Beira, Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Idai.
Voices from the Field - 20 Mar 2019

Khadija is 20; she has been displaced from Chekhcharan district of Ghor province in June 2018. She lives with her family in a tent in the Kadistan settlement. She brought her 2-year old daughter Bibi Aysha to MSF’s winter clinic to be treated for severe diarrhea. “We are concerned about lack of food. My daughter has been steadily losing weight since we moved here” she says.

Afghanistan

The long struggle of displaced families to survive winter in Herat

Widespread conflict and severe drought has forced over 150,000 people to flee villages in northwestern Afghanistan and seek shelter in the city of Herat. Project Update - 20 Mar 2019

Cyclone Idai & Southern Africa flooding

Humanitarian response in wake of devastating Cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai has ravaged parts of Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flooding and damage. Our teams are responding to the medical and humanitarian needs. Project Update - 19 Mar 2019

This little girl is from Afghanistan and arrived in Samos in early March. Since then, she's been living in Vathy camp her her parents and three siblings. Her mum, Farida, is worried that the camp is not safe for her and that she does not have space to be a child.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

EU-Turkey deal continues cycle of containment and despair

For the past three years, the EU-Turkey deal has trapped thousands of people in overcrowded, unsanitary, camps in Greece, with little access to basic health services. Press Release - 18 Mar 2019

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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The aftermath of the conflict in Hawija: “My only hope is to get back to normal”