MSF strongly condemns attacks against its staff and asks for protection for humanitarian workers and patients. Statement - 2 Oct 2018

Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF medical referent in Gaza

Palestine

“Nothing can prepare you for this”

Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb, MSF medical referent in Gaza, describes the shocking volume of wounded arriving from the fence over the last six months and their bleak long-term prospects. Voices from the Field - 2 Oct 2018

Speaking Out videos: MSF and the war in the former Yugoslavia 1991-2003

A child walks on an elevated foot path reinforced by sandbags in the Unchiprang camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Rohingya refugee crisis

Crisis update – September 2018

September 2018 update on activities in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, providing care for Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar. Crisis Update - 1 Oct 2018

Bangladesh

Shanti Khana: Bringing peace to Rohingya refugees

Prodjut Roy, a mental health supervisor with MSF, describes the mental health needs among Rohingya refugees and what has been done to break down the stigma associated with mental health services. Project Update - 28 Sep 2018

Mamotsieleli Molofotsane is around 20 years old she says. She has three children and is pregnant with her fourth. Mamotsieleli has been tested HIV positive and is on ARV treatment. Her three children have been tested HIV negative. To go to the MSF supported clinic of Ha Seng, she has to walk many hours. She already missed an appointment for a refill of her ARV drugs due to the distance and a problem with her feet. In Lesotho, the health centers are very scattered. Women have to walk many hours and sometimes even have to sleep overnight before they can reach the health center. As a result, many women have a poor adherence to their treatment. Some are not coming to the health centers on a regular basis. When a pregnant woman like Mamotsieleli doesn’t adhere well to her ARV treatment, it increases the risk for her to transmit the virus to her child. It also means that her treatment will not work properly for herself: she will get sick, resistant to treatment and ultimately risk death. Maternal mortality -linked to HIV- in Lesotho is one of the highest in the world.

Women's health

"I’ve seen with my own eyes, safe abortion saves women's lives"

Dr Manisha Kumar talks about her experience in the field with women needing access to safe abortion care and efforts to increase access to contraceptive and safe abortion care services offered by MSF projects. Interview - 27 Sep 2018

Fatouma Adamou and Iscander Raingou-Mounchili are doing the evening visit in a phase 2 tent.

Niger

One of the world’s biggest paediatric intensive care units is full

The 200-bed paediatric intensive care unit in Magaria, Niger, is overwhelmed as MSF teams tackle an unprecedented malaria peak in a hospital that covers a region of one million people.

Press Release - 25 Sep 2018

XDR-TB patient Nischaya, at home in the Ambedkar Nagar area of Mumbai, studying for her exams. Beside her bed, her father is putting in order her box of TB medication.

Nischaya (not real name) is 18 years old, lives in Mumbai, and is one of only a handful of extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) patients in India lucky enough to be able to have acesss to the new drugs. After having been on treatment unsuccessfully for several years, Nischaya was referred to the clinic of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organisation who since 2006 provides free diagnosis, treatment and support to patients with drug-resistant TB in Mumbai.

Tuberculosis

Global leaders must make bold commitments at first-ever UN tuberculosis summit

As world leaders meet at first-ever UN TB summit, MSF highlights urgent need to scale up newer tools available today to save lives, and develop a fast, safe and simple cure for TB Press Release - 25 Sep 2018

Women are waiting at the MSF supported hospital in Masisi, North Kivu, DRC. The MSF teams support the full extent of primary and secondary health care services (surgery, internal medicine, gynecology, maternity, pediatric, neonatology as well as a « village d’accueil » for women in their third trimester of a risky pregnancy who can stay there to ensure they have access to medicalized support to give birth) and undertake mobile clinics with a focus on malaria (curative/preventative) in remote health posts; watsan & health promotion.

Democratic Republic of Congo

48 hours on the frontline of maternity care

blogs.msf.org - 24 Sep 2018

Central Mediterranean – 23 September, 2018 – Over the past 72 hours, Aquarius assisted two boats in distress and now has more than 60 survivors on board, several of whom are psychologically distressed and fatigued from their journeys at sea and experiences in Libya.
SOS Mediterrannee and MSF are reeling from the announcement by the Panama Maritime Authority it has been forced to revoke the registration of the Aquarius under blatant economic and political pressure from the Italian government.
“Five years after the Lampedusa tragedy, when European leaders said ‘never again’ and Italy launched its first large scale search and rescue operation, people are still risking their lives to escape from Libya . News from the Panama Maritime Authority arrived to the Aquarius while its teams were engaged in an active search and rescue operation in the Central Mediterranean.

Mediterranean migration

Italian government pressures Panama to stop Aquarius rescues on world's deadliest maritime route

SOS MEDITERRANEE and MSF demand that European governments allow the Aquarius to continue its rescue mission. Press Release - 23 Sep 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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