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MSF Medical Guidelines

The MSF Medical Guidelines are the collaborative work of several experienced medical practitioners and specialists, and were developed for non-specialised medical staff. medicalguidelines.msf.org
 
Promotion material for the new medical guidelines application for Android and iOS.
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MSF releases new medical guidelines app

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released medical guidelines, available to access through a mobile application and a website. Press Release - 22 Sep 2017
 
A woman receives surgery to remove a piece of shrapnel from her heel in an injury she sustained weeks earlier. She fled Mosul with her injury.
Iraq

Crisis update – September 2017

The battle for Mosul has taken a staggering toll on the people of Iraq’s second largest city. Health needs are shifting from war injuries to medical cases and long-term rehabilitation care. Crisis Update - 21 Sep 2017
 
MSF nurses treating internally displaced people in the city of Mariupol, eastern Ukraine. MSF provides free consultations, medication and psychological support to people affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine

MSF launches new mobile health clinic in eastern Ukraine

“As we were facing a large number of patients in some locations we decided to increase the frequency of some of the mobile clinic sites, to ensure that we can see as many patients as possible.” Press Release - 21 Sep 2017
 
People in the rain at a border crossing on the Naf river, near Teknaf, September 19.
Rohingya refugee crisis

Immediate action needed to avert massive public health disaster

“Hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in an extremely precarious situation, and all the preconditions for a public health disaster are there.” Press Release - 21 Sep 2017
 
Un hotel en ruinas por el terremoto que azotó Oaxaca el 7 de septiembre

A hotel in ruins due to the earthquake that hit Oaxaca on 7 September
Mexico

MSF assists people following Mexico City earthquake

Thirty nine buildings have collapsed in Mexico City, while in the state of Morelos at least 2,000 houses have been damaged. Press Release - 21 Sep 2017
 
Algoni  and his wife Khadija, live in Muna Camp, having fled their homes in Dikwa, Borno state. They have been receiving treatment in MSF’s cholera treatment unit for three days.
Nigeria

MSF scales up activities as cholera spreads in Borno state

“We remain alert and through our community health workers continue to monitor the spread of the outbreak, and respond to it across Borno state.” Project Update - 19 Sep 2017
 
Rohingya who crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing violence in Rakhine state, Myanmar that started on 25 August. This massive influx, coming on top of 75,000 people who have arrived since violence began in October 2016, represents one of the largest influxes ever of Rohingyas into Bangladesh.
Rohingya refugee crisis

International humanitarian access to Rakhine State must urgently be permitted

“To ensure access to medical care and to be able to provide assistance to conflict-affected people, MSF... must be allowed immediate and unhindered access to all areas of Rakhine State." Press Release - 18 Sep 2017
 
The first patient has successfully finished their TB treatment at MSF’s project in the Republic of Belarus in Eastern Europe. 

38 year old Yury had a form of TB that was resistant to both 1st and 2nd line TB drugs. After two years of treatment that wasn’t working, he was left with no other options, until MSF started a new program in the country in 2015. ‘My doctors told me – this is the only chance,’ he says.

‘It was getting worse and worse. I had drug resistance.They told me existing drugs won’t help,’ Yury recalls.

Yury was admitted to MSF’s program  which is part of the endTB partnership, aiming to find shorter, less toxic and more effective treatments for drug-resistant TB. Yury was put on a new regimen that contained Bedaquiline, a drug that he was previously unable to access. 

Bedaquiline and Delamanid are the first two new TB drugs developed in nearly 50 years and offer new hope for patients with drug resistant forms of the disease. 

‘Then it was immediate – in two days they inserted a port (an implanted system for continuous intravenous infusions) and the treatment started. Imipenem, Bedaquiline and several other medicines, that’s it. And I started to improve immediately. I didn’t feel better, I had no appetite. But the tests, the X-rays – everybody was surprised! They said: “That’s something! It’s fantastic! You have such a good dynamic!” Excellent dynamic. And already in October I had clear tests. Everything was clear. Everybody was surprised – nurses, doctors. And of course they were telling me don’t even think of skipping the treatment, you need to continue it,’ he says.

Over a year later, Yury is now cured of the disease.
Belarus

“My doctors told me it was my only chance”

Yury, 38, is celebrating a moment he thought would never arrive: he has been cured of a complicated form of tuberculosis. Voices from the Field - 15 Sep 2017
 
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Chad

In eastern Chad, cholera continues to spread

MSF is working with the Chadian Ministry of Public Health to cope with an outbreak of cholera in the east of the country. Project Update - 15 Sep 2017
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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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