More than six months into the beginning of the latest Rohingya exodus, people continue to flee from Myanmar into Bangladesh fearing for their lives and seeking safety. A total of 3,236 refugees are reported to have entered Bangladesh in February alone. Crisis Update - 15 Mar 2018

Syria

The voice from the hospital basement in East Ghouta

‘This has to end, we cannot continue to watch children die.’ Statement - 15 Mar 2018

Subi Katum, 70, arrives near Sabrang on the Bangladeshi side of the Naf river after crossing the border from Myanmar on 7 March 2018.

“My husband was killed and my daughter’s husband disappeared. Many people have been killed or are lost. I hope all of this will finish one day but I can’t tell what the future holds. Like many others, we were obliged to abandon our villages, our houses, our land, our animals. People are desperate to leave but many don’t have any possibility. I feel exhausted and unable to walk. I haven’t eaten for three days. It’s very hard.”

Rohingya refugee crisis

“We don’t have anywhere else to go”

Having fled indescribable violence in Myanmar, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh must now contend with new dangers: precarious living conditions, the upcoming rainy season and fears for personal safety after dark. Voices from the Field - 15 Mar 2018

MSF staff giving vaccinations in Douentza.

Mali

Medical services in northeastern Mali

Photo Story - 13 Mar 2018

Village of Kier. MSF nurse Furaha Bazikanya shows members of the mobile medical team how to read the results of urine test strips.

South Sudan

MSF’s newest project takes medical care to remote locations

It’s 8am, and the MSF compound in Akobo, eastern South Sudan, is a hive of activity. In front of the logistics tent, staff carefully load tables, chairs, floor mats, septic boxes, medicines and other supplies into the back of a vehicle. Nearby, the Project Coordinator manages to simultaneously gulp down a cup of coffee while mumbling into a dusty handset radio. With still-unbuttoned life jackets resting squarely on their shoulders, a team of clinical officers, nurses, and community health workers discuss the day’s strategy. Voices from the Field - 13 Mar 2018

Ospedale di Bili. Reparto di malnutrizione.

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF in DRC: Annual Report 2017

Médecins Sans Frontières en RDC, rapport annuel 2017 . Report - 13 Mar 2018

A Rohingya refugee in Jamptoli makeshift camp, where more than 50,000 people are sheltering.

Rohingya refugee crisis

‘No one was left’ - Death and Violence Against the Rohingya

MSF releases new advocacy report which explains 2017 Rohingya violence survey findings
Report - 9 Mar 2018

Central African Republic

Survivors describe a mass rape ordeal outside Bossangoa

“What’s most concerning about the number of sexual violence cases we have recorded is that the real number is likely to be much higher." Project Update - 8 Mar 2018

Half of the Syrian population has been forcibly displaced. Salma (* a pseudonym) fled with her children and brother-in-law from outside Damascus in Syria, south to Daraa, then crossed the border into Jordan. After a brief stay in Zaatari refugee camp, they moved to Irbid. A teacher, she left behind a “beautiful” life in Syria before the war. Five years later she and her family have adjusted to life in Jordan, assisted by the psychological care she sought for her youngest son and then herself at MSF’s mental health clinic.
Salma’s video is featured in the IWD 2018 package. See becauseimawoman.msf.org and, on the database, MSFSTO21277 for the video and transcript.

Website

Because I'm a woman

Women and girls forced to flee face health risks and further danger on their journey, simply because they are women. becauseimawoman.msf.org

Syria

An outrageous, relentless mass casualty disaster in East Ghouta

At least 344 wounded and 71 dead every day, seven days a week for two weeks – non-stop Statement - 8 Mar 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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Crisis update - March 2018