A series of airstrikes on Monday morning by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition struck near a busy street in the heart of Sana'a, Yemen. The airstrikes targeted the Yemeni presidential office, which is located near a hotel, pharmacies, a bank and shops, and resulted in a mass casualty influx of at least 72 injured and 6 dead at two hospitals supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 8 May 2018

Monica, infected with both HIV and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB, is taking her drugs. She receives treatment through Blue House, a clinic on the edge of Mathare, one of the Kenyan capital Nairobi’s more violent slums, where MSF treats people with TB and HIV.
MSF began treating MDR-TB in Kenya in May of 2006 and remains the only provider of MDR treatment in the country today.

Access to medicines

Access Campaign Year in Review 2017

Seven ways the MSF Access Campaign increased access to lifesaving treatment in 2017. msfaccess.org - 7 May 2018

Syria

Thousands of displaced kids in Aleppo catch up on vaccinations

Since 2016, the countryside west of Aleppo, in northern Syria, has been one of the main destinations for internally displaced people (IDPs) evacuated from besieged areas, including East Aleppo City, Homs, South Hama and, recently, East Ghouta.
Project Update - 7 May 2018

Libya

Time running out for 800 migrants and refugees in Zuwara detention centre

MSF is highly concerned about the fate of around 800 migrants and refugees held in a dangerously overcrowded detention centre in the port city of Zuwara, Libya around 100 kilometres west of Tripoli. Some of the men, women and children inside have been detained in inhumane conditions for more than five months without adequate food or water. Statement - 4 May 2018

Fajimatou is 33 years old and has four children. She had been suffering from an obstetric fistula for three years ever since her last child was born. Thanks to the listening space set up in her village, she finally had the confidence to speak openly about her pain and MSF was able to help her get the necessary surgery.

Niger

In Diffa, listening spaces have been set up for and by women from the community

Three years ago, Fajimatou gave birth to her fourth child. Since then, she had been suffering from incontinence and regular urinary infections. Too embarrassed to raise this problem with the staff at the health post, she had kept it to herself. When she heard about the listening space for women set up by MSF in her village, it was a real relief. msf.lu - 4 May 2018

A mother with her baby waiting to see the doctor at the MSF mobile clinic opposite the Moria camp in Lesvos.

Greece

Overcrowded, dangerous and insufficient access to healthcare in Moria

As the Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, visits Lesvos, Greece for a regional conference, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that the situation on Lesbos is, once again, reaching breaking point. Statement - 4 May 2018

Tuberculosis

Impact of pyrazinamide resistance on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the inclusion of pyrazinamide (PZA) in treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) unless resistance has been confirmed.
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - 1 May 2018

Paediatrics

Lebanon: MSF provides specialised paediatric care in Bekaa Valley

MSF opened a paediatric ward in Elias Hraoui governmental hospital in Zahle in March 2017 to provide specialised care to vulnerable children of all nationalities, free of charge. www.msf-me.org - 30 Apr 2018

Newly displaced people carrying their belongings set foot inside the hospital compound where most of the people arriving in Pulka first settle.
More than 42,000 people are estimated to be living in Pulka now, according to local authorities. They are made up of internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and members of the host community who did not flee when Boko Haram attacked the town.
Since January, Pulka has registered more than 11,300 new arrivals.
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Nigeria

Parched Pulka searches for water

Amidst the conflict in Pulka, north-east Nigeria, displaced people struggle to access basic amenities like safe water. Project Update - 27 Apr 2018

Raqqa, the west side of the city. People are slowly returning to their homes to find in either damaged of fully destroyed. The fights subsided in Raqqa in mid-October

Syria

The cruel legacy of conflict

Michael Shek is an MSF nurse from Dumfries, Scotland. He worked in MSF’s trauma stabilisation unit in the east of Raqqa in late 2017. Voices from the Field - 27 Apr 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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MSF-supported hospitals treat mass casualties caused by airstrikes in Sana'a