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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

European government policies condemn people to be locked up in Libya or drown at sea

European governments must come to their senses and end policies which trap extremely vulnerable people in Libya or leave them to die at sea. Press Release - 29 Jun 2018

Patient counselling is one of the important parts of the Test and Treat Programme.

South Sudan

HIV Test and Treat pilot project in Yambio comes to a close

The Médecins Sans Frontières, Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization's Test and Treat HIV study project in Yambio county finished in June 2018. The objective of the study was to assess feasibility and acceptability of the “treat all strategy” coupled with a community-based, patient-centred approach, based on HIV testing and same day antiretroviral treatment. Press Release - 27 Jun 2018

The following is a list of shots from MSF’s (Spain) trial program to help diagnose and supply essential antiretroviral drugs to isolated rural communities in Yambio, Western Equatoria, in South Sudan called “test and treat”.

Outreach teams leave their base in Yambio daily trying to access these remote areas. Not only is the terrain a difficult to manage, South Sudan's Civil war has at times made operations difficult to manage. However the teams have proven that a community based approach to diagnosis and treatment is feasible.

South Sudan

Yambio: HIV community-based Test and Treat pilot project

The report, "Yambio: HIV community-based Test and Treat pilot project", highlights the methodology used, the key learnings and the outcomes of a Test and Treat pilot project in Yambio, South Sudan. Report - 27 Jun 2018

Abdul Rahman* was a Law student before the war started in Syria. He fled his home country after being detained and tortured first by the regime, and later by Isis.

Before the war in Syria, I studied at Aleppo University, faculty of Law, I graduated from the faculty of law in 2009 and practiced law for 2 years. After the war began, I get married and had two children. My life was normal, like everybody else living with their family. Then, a sequence of events began, destroying

people’s lives. We have started witnessing loss. I have lost my wife and children, I was injured in the same circumstance. I was detained twice.

The first detention period was the most difficult. We were around 60 people in a 2x2 metre room.They would hang us with one arm and one leg, and prop us up with another object. Then they would put chlorine on our legs and pierce them with needles.

After I was released, I built new dreams of reaching Greece and therefore reaching safety. I travelled in the hope of receiving a treatment; I travelled to gain back even a small part of what I lost. But when I arrived I felt as if I had drowned. I am in a European country, I thought, which means I should have rights, we were told that Europe is the land of rights. But I haven’t seen any of that. Whether my mental health is bad or not, or that I use medicine and painkillers, they don’t even care because as I have realised, we’re only papers here, when my papers are ready, I can move, but until then, they don’t care at all.

I am still alive because of MSF, despite all my great despair. They treat me with kindness regardless of the fact that I am a patient. I am being treated as a special case here, as someone who lost the most valuable thing in life, the family. They have provided me with moral motivation, and they have helped me withstand the situation till this day. They made me feel human again, I felt that I am someone who has rights. But my dreams are all gone; they disappeared after I reached Europe.

*Name has been changed*

Mental health

Visible and invisible wounds – MSF treats survivors of torture

Interview with Gianfranco De Maio, MSF medical referent for victims of torture programmes Voices from the Field - 26 Jun 2018

MSF’s Aden hospital: consists of ER (4 patients’ capacity), 3 OT (one is dedicated to internal fixation), ICU (10 beds), 6 IPD (58 beds), 2 isolation wards (total of 15 beds), OPD, physiotherapy, health education and support services: general/bacteriological lab, X-Ray, sterilization, ambulances, pharmacy, laundry and management offices.
In 2017, MSF Aden hospital provided 4502 ER Consultations, received 1798 IPD Admissions 448 ICU Admissions, performed 4193 Surgical Procedures and16 Internal Fixations.

Yemen

“Our concern is that fighting could turn Hodeidah into a besieged city”

On Wednesday 13 June, forces loyal to President Hadi, supported by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition (SELC), officially launched an offensive to take Hodeidah city from Ansar Allah forces (Al Houthis). Voices from the Field - 26 Jun 2018

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Improvised kitchen in Bambari general hospital. In Bambari, MSF supports the paediatric and maternity wards and supports the surgery national team. In February, the UN stabilisation mission, MINUSCA, declared Bambari a “city without armed groups”, strengthening the perception of it as a safe area for those fleeing violence elsewhere in the country. Currently, 50 percent of Bambari’s residents (113.800 people in total) have been displaced from their homes in other parts of Central African Republic. Of the 55,869 displaced people, 10,300 have arrived in Bambari since mid-March. Most are living in nine camps which ring the city but several moved in the hospital compound, where they feel safer.

Central African Republic

Ongoing fears of outbursts of violence in Bambari hamper access to healthcare

Interview with former head of mission Paul Brockman about recent outbursts of violence in Bambari, CAR, and their impact on the local population. Voices from the Field - 26 Jun 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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