"When I tell this story, I see a film playing before my eyes"

MSF patients in Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo, share their stories of sexual violence. These testimonies were collected during a field visit by an MSF communications team in September 2018. Voices from the Field - 1 Nov 2018

Ethiopia

A name full of hope

Midwife Christine Tasnier and her colleagues work in the maternity ward of the 120-bed health centre MSF runs in Kule refugee camp, in Ethiopia. Around 54,000 refugees live in the camp, having fled the conflict in South Sudan. Voices from the Field - 30 Oct 2018

Honduras

“People here are deeply affected by violence, especially women”

In this extract from Desperate journey: Fleeing invisible wars in Central America, published by MSF's US office, MSF psychologist Ámbar Assaf recounts her experience and that of patients she has seen at La López clinic in Choloma, Honduras. Voices from the Field - 29 Oct 2018

Mexico

Tending deep wounds in Mexico

This extract from Desperate journey: Fleeing invisible wars in Central America, published by MSF's US office, recounts the experiences of patients treated by MSF teams in Reynosa, a common rest stop for many Central American migrants hoping to gain entry to the US, and one of the most violent cities in Mexico. Voices from the Field - 29 Oct 2018

This Honduran man (who for security reasons will remain unidentified) was forced to flee his country with his pregnant wife. They received a temporary visa in Mexico, but because of the security situation in Reynosa they decided his wife should attempt to seek asylum in the United States. The couple left for the international bridge at 5:00 a.m. She turned herself in to US immigration officials, where she was detained. Instead of hearing her case, the authorities held her until Mexican immigration officials could detain her. She is now held in jail and awaiting possible deportation, which could put her life at risk.

Central American migration

"Leaving the country to seek asylum is often the only option for survival"

Stephanie Puccetti, a humanitarian aﬀairs advisor for MSF-USA, talks about the challenges facing migrants and asylum seekers in Honduras and Mexico, and along the US border. Interview - 29 Oct 2018

Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started working in Qayyarah in 2016. We built a field trauma hospital with an operating theatre, emergency room, pediatric, nutrition and in-patient departments along with mental health services. MSF also set up a nutrition and mental health program in the Jeda´ah Camps 5 and 6 and Airstrip camp near Qayyarah. Between March and May 2018, MSF vaccinated more than 40,000 children living in Airstrip, Jeda´ah 1-6 and Haj Ali camps against the deadly measles virus.

Iraq

Life after the war

MSF nurse Vera Schmitz blogs about her experience of working in norther Iraq since mid-July 2018. blogs.msf.org - 26 Oct 2018

Images from the changing area in the ETC of Mangina. Health workers are preparing themselves and putting on the PPE outfit to enter the high risk zone of the centre. It’s very important to meticulously check the double layered outfit so no skin is exposed.

DRC Ebola outbreaks

Ebola in the DRC: between operational trial and error and scientific uncertainty

Rebecca Grais, Research Director at Epicentre, MSF’s epidemiology arm, and Pierre Mendiharat, Deputy Director of Operations for MSF-France, offer their insights on the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu Province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This joint interview in four parts (the outbreak, social context, treatments, and vaccination) aims to show how science and practice interact around each outbreak. msf-crash.org - 26 Oct 2018

MSF psychologists during a group mental health session for children in a village in Guerrero state. Violence across the region is taking a toll on children’s mental health. In many cases, patients are suffering from night terrors and display aggressive or irritable behaviour.

ESP Los niños sufren asimismo la violencia y la tensión del ambiente: en muchos casos los niños presentan miedos nocturnos, agresividad o irritabilidad constante.

Mexico

Mobile teams respond to escalating violence and trauma in Guerrero state

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

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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