Myriam Abdel Basit, an Arabic-speaking cultural mediator, recounts her work with displaced children in Moria camp, on Greece’s Lesbos island. Voices from the Field - 20 Nov 2018

Aquarius leaves Valencia harbour. The search and rescue vessel leaves Valencia after an unacceptable 8 days odyssey and 3 days in Spain. Aquarius will be heading back to the international waters off the coast of Libya to keep on saving lives. After disembarking 106 people rescued in Valencia last Sunday, Aquarius has been doing resupplying works.

Mediterranean migration

Sinister attacks by Italian authorities on lifesaving search and rescue in the Mediterranean

MSF strongly condemns the Italian judicial authorities’ request to seize the Aquarius for alleged anomalies in its disposal of on-board waste – a disproportionate and unfounded measure, purely aimed at criminalising lifesaving action at sea. Statement - 20 Nov 2018

Sleeping sickness

Fexinidazole: A doctor's dream

The faces behind the development of a new drug for sleeping sickness. dndi.org - 19 Nov 2018

DRC Ebola outbreaks

Ebola in DRC: Cutting the chains of transmission

To run Ebola treatment centres, our teams rely on experienced staff to share their expertise in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, in the fight against this deadly disease. One of them is Alpha Diallo from Guinea who works as an expert in water and sanitation, also known as WatSan. Voices from the Field - 19 Nov 2018

El Salvador

Additional ambulances increase access to healthcare

With two additional vehicles, one of which is equipped to provide medical treatment, MSF is increasing its support of the Comandos de Salvamento ambulance service and the communities it serves in Soyapango, a town close to the capital, San Salvador. Project Update - 16 Nov 2018

Noma

The neglected disease that destroys faces and lives

Noma, a neglected and little-known non-contagious disease, mostly affects children under five living in poverty. Nigeria’s Sokoto Noma Hospital, supported by MSF, is one of the few in the world fully dedicated to treating this deadly bacterial disease. Project Update - 15 Nov 2018

5,000 still displaced in MSF-supported Batangafo Hospital

Central African Republic

More than 5,000 people sheltering in MSF-supported Batangafo hospital after violent clashes

Fighting between two armed groups in Batangafo, in northern Central African Republic, in late October drove more than 10,000 people to seek shelter in Batangafo hospital, where 5,000 still remain. Project Update - 14 Nov 2018

Portrait of Odia at her home in Conakry, Guinea on March 18, 2016.

"I learnt in 2005 that I was HIV positive when I for a medical checkup. But the first time, it was my father who received the results from my tests and he did not tell me what they were. I returned to the hospital again with a friend of my mother and was tested again. That’s when I learnt I was HIV positive. I was stigmatised by my Aunty at first, today though I don't face problems. I am a counsellor in an MSF treatment centres for those who come for HIV tests."

MSF launched a HIV testing campaign in Conakry with the support of health authorities moving throughout several neighbourhoods throughout 2016.

In Guinea, only one in four people living with HIV are on life-saving antiretroviral treatment. Lack of voluntary HIV testing, estimated at only 5% from the latest study dating from 2012, hampers the necessary increase of people on ART.

Access to medicines

HIV and TB treatment at risk as countries gradually lose Global Fund support

MSF calls on the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to make urgent changes to prevent drug stock-outs and quality issues with HIV and tuberculosis medicines for countries gradually losing donor support. Press Release - 13 Nov 2018

Chan and Ngor are identical twins, just 1 day old. Sadly, their mother passed away during child birth so now they are being cared for at the MSF Hospital in Malakal PoC. The boys are healthy but face an uncertain future as the country is in the midst of a bitter civil war.

South Sudan

Innovation: How ultrasound is saving lives in South Sudan

Stephen is a midwife from South Sudan, working with MSF in Malakal camp to provide care to people displaced by conflict. In this blog post, he explains how new kit and training in "point-of-care" ultrasound scans are helping midwives like him make lifesaving diagnoses. blogs.msf.org - 12 Nov 2018

Maryam, aged four, plays in the courtyard of the noma hospital.

She arrived at Sokoto Noma Hospital with her mother from Borno state and was first admitted in March 2016.

She has already undergone four reconstructive operations, including a skin graft taken from her chest to replace tissue destroyed by noma.

Sokoto, Nigeria.
2 November 2016.

Website

Noma, a neglected disease

MSF website dedicated to noma, a disfiguring, neglected disease that affects mostly children under five living in poverty. Learn about the disease, people who have it, and what MSF is doing to support them in Sokoto Noma Hospital in Nigeria. noma.msf.org/

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.

Learn more

About Us

What we do

Where we work

MSF Websites

Psychotherapy with children in Lesbos