The Bourbon Argos will provide additional search and rescue support in the Mediterranean, in parallel with the MY Phoenix. Project Update - 9 May 2015

Yemen

MSF statement in response to latest coalition offensive

"The bombing of civilian targets, with or without warning, is a serious violation of international humanitarian law. It is even more serious to target a whole province." Statement - 8 May 2015

Niger

“People are in need of food, water, shelter… the basics”

Interview with Abdalla Hussein, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Diffa, Niger Voices from the Field - 8 May 2015

Niger

Thousands facing precarious conditions after being forced to leave Lake Chad

MSF is one of the few organisations providing assistance to this vulnerable population Voices from the Field - 8 May 2015

Watta Jabateh is an Ebola survivor who lost nine family members, including her daughter.

Liberia

Counting the cost of the Ebola outbreak

As the World Health Organization declares Liberia Ebola-free on 9 May – having recorded no new cases of Ebola for 42 days – MSF takes a look at how Liberians are putting back together their fractured lives and shattered communities, nearly a year on from Liberia’s first recorded case of Ebola. Liberia has been hit the hardest by the Ebola outbreak, with 10,212 cases including 4,573 deaths. Mothers have lost children; children have lost parents; brothers and sisters have lost siblings. Communities have been decimated. But there are stories of survival and hope. Voices from the Field - 8 May 2015

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Remarks by International President of MSF Dr. Joanne Liu at the Gates Foundation Global Partner Forum

Speech - 8 May 2015

Mediterranean migration

Testimony from Mediterranean migrant Makone Mare

One of the 369 people rescued from the Mediterranean by MSF last Sunday. Voices from the Field - 7 May 2015

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - 6 May 2015

The epidemic is at its lowest but not over yet. Key ‘pillars’ of the response are still missing. Crisis Update - 6 May 2015

*** Local Caption *** Since the on-start of the conflict in South Sudan, mid-December 2013, according to the UNCHR, more than 1,400,000 persons have been internally displaced and more than 450,000 would have sought refuge in the neighboring countries, amongst which 190,000 in Gambella region, western Ethiopia. The rainy season has temporarily slowed the stream of people arriving into the camps. The rate of new arrivals has slowed down in the last several months, from 1000 new arrivals per day in February to approximately 100 per week today. However UNHCR forecast expected an additional of 110,000 new arrivals in 2015 with restarting of the fighting in South Sudan during the dry season.<br/>
The current refugee population in Gambella region remains in a critical situation and additional population influxes could further destabilize an already difficult situation. In order to reduce child mortality, MSF is carrying out vaccination campaign targeting 50,000 children for PCV / vaccine and 26,000 children for DPT- Hib-HepB vaccine.<br/>
This vaccination campaign is a challenge due to logistical constraints (cold chain, waste management, transport, access, etc.) and the 2 doses minimum required for effective protection.<br/>
Extended preventive package in emergency situations is a major issue. New preventive strategy, including vaccination, could improve more rapidly the mortality and burden of diseases in acute phase of emergencies. This intervention is an example showing that is possible to extend the vaccination package in emergency situation and should be a first step to review current policy.

Ethiopia

MSF broadens vaccination package for South Sudanese refugees

MSF teams in Gamballa expanding the vaccine package being provided to South Sudanese refugees to include PCV (Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine) and Hib (Haemophilus influenzae type B) in order to reduce child mortality. Project Update - 5 May 2015

An MSF team visits heavily affected villages in the mountains to the north-west of Kathmandu by helicopter, where little or no assistance has reached. They did a health and damage assessment and provided basic medical assistance to patients. While the most critically injured people were evacuated in the days immediately after the earthquake, those remaining have been trapped in their villages as roads and walking tracks have been cut off by avalanches and landslides. MSF's teams are seeing people in need of basic healthcare, as well as a number of people presenting with wounds sustained in the earthquake that have now become infected.

Nepal

MSF starts reaching people in remote mountain regions by helicopter and on foot following the earthquake

Medical teams have started reaching people, spread across isolated mountain villages, by helicopter and on foot. Crisis Update - 5 May 2015

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 reinforces its search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean