As violence escalates in Mexico’s Tierra Caliente region, north and central Guerrero state, we are expanding our mobile teams to provide medical and psychological assistance in more areas more quickly. Project Update - 26 Oct 2018

Juliet a resident of Glenview, Harare, the epicenter of the cholera outbreak takes the oral cholera vaccine during the mass vaccination campaign that took place in Glenview, Harare recently. The government of Zimbabwe with support from MSF and other partners rolled out the oral cholera vaccination campaign to protect people from cholera.

Zimbabwe

A collective response to cholera in Harare

MSF is supporting local authorities and mobilising community health clubs to implement a unique combination of emergency responses and longer-term solutions in the face of the country’s second biggest cholera outbreak to date. Project Update - 25 Oct 2018

Yemen

Is Yemen on the brink of famine?

MSF operations desk manager Caroline Seguin discusses the recent warnings of famine in Yemen—a country that has been at war for almost four years. Interview - 24 Oct 2018

Giakila, left, has been diagnosed with drug-resistant TB. Here she talks to MSF's counsellor about her medication. The counsellor uses the rice in the sample jars to explain how the amount of sputum in her lungs will reduce each month as she continues to take medication.

Tuberculosis

High prices restrict access to best drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment

MSF calls on US pharma corporation Johnson & Johnson to halve the price of the newer TB drug bedaquiline. Press Release - 23 Oct 2018

Simbongile Xesha collects her medication from the pharmacy at Town 2 Clinic, Kuyasa, Khayelitsha.

Simbongile’s current DR-TB regimen: bedaquiline, linezolid, clofazimine, terizidone, levofloxacin, pyrazinamide.

Simbongile Xesha

“Last year, end- September, I started coughing and didn’t want to eat. My partner had XDR-TB so I probably caught it from him. He passed away in May this year.
I brought myself to the clinic and within a week, in October 2015 I started full treatment for XDR-TB, with monthly supplies of drugs from my local clinic, which included bedaquiline.
I live with my mum and two sisters, and our children.
I know from Dr Jenny that many patients need bedaquiline. I didn’t have to wait and was taking bedaquiline from the first day of treatment. I think that’s why my sputum started to change so quickly. I stick to my treatment same time every day and I go to a support group.
Today I work as a cashier at a frozen yoghurt place in Khayelitsha. I feel great. I’ve been taking bedaquiline for six months now. I take all the tablets at the same time. The medication makes me very nauseous and knocks me out for one or two hours. But it makes me strong too.”

Tuberculosis

DR-TB Drugs Under the Microscope, 5th Edition (Abridged)

Despite some positive developments, access to safe and effective treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) remains poor. msfaccess.org - 22 Oct 2018

Indonesia

Caring for the victims of the triple disaster in Central Sulawesi

Dr Yusuf Toba, an Indonesian medical doctor and first-time MSF field worker, describes his role in the response to the earthquake, tsunami and liquefaction that hit Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province on 28 September 2018. msf-seasia.org - 20 Oct 2018

Indonesia

"Central Sulawesi took its toll on me"

Dr Rangi W. Sudrajat describes her and her medical team's daily mobile clinic activities in the 13 villages of South Dolo district following the earthquakes and tsunami that hit Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province on 28 September 2018. msf-seasia.org - 19 Oct 2018

MSF Inpatient Department (IPD) Mansour Al-Ezzi is checking on Ghalia Qaboos who is diagnosed as Kala Azar in MSF supported hospital in Abs on 12th June,2016

Yemen

“Some pregnant women and sick children arrive so late, we can’t save them”

Interview with Gisela Vallès, medical team leader at the MSF hospital in Abs, Yemen, explains the challenges and obstacles her team face in providing assistance to the displaced groups and host communities as increased fighting in the region causes new waves of displacement. Interview - 18 Oct 2018

A general of the olive grove next to Moria camp. Due to overcrowded camp of Moria about 2000 asylum seekers have moved to the area next to Moria camp where they have created makeshift shelters. Due to the recent rains residents in the olive grove had nowhere to sleep as the tents were usually flooded.

Greece

No roof, no recovery

A victim of torture's first-hand account of how homelessness and inappropriate living conditions act as a barrier to torture survivors’ rehabilitation in Greece. Voices from the Field - 17 Oct 2018

Nauru

Information on patient files transfer by MSF to Nauruan health authority

Statement - 17 Oct 2018

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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Mobile teams respond to escalating violence and trauma in Guerrero state