Reports from doctors MSF supports in the area outline grave incidents on 29 and 30 April in which armed groups showed absolutely no consideration for the special protected status of patients, medical facilities and health workers. Press Release - 16 Jun 2017

MSF midwives Nancy Thairu (L) and Grace Kinyua ® consult with Mary Wambui (35) who has just given birth to her fifth child, John Mutua, in the post-natal ward of the Kibera South Health Centre in Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. John was born in the maternity unit at 4:50am this morning, and will receive follow-up care in the health centre. Midwives check that babies are breastfeeding well, and appear to be in good health before discharging mothers, who then regularly return for post-natal care and immunisation for their babies.

Kenya

20 years of MSF in Kibera

After 20 years, MSF is handing over its health centre in Kibera, famous for being the world’s biggest slum, to the Nairobi City County Heath Services and another NGO. Here, we highlight the huge contribution MSF has made to Kibera in that time, focusing on the testimonies of our patients and staff. Project Update - 16 Jun 2017

Iraq

Mental health needs mount after years of war

Iraq’s recent history has been dominated by wars. Generations of Iraqis have grown up in shattered families, living in camps or among the rubble of their home towns. Each conflict has left its scars, both visible and invisible. Project Update - 15 Jun 2017

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF-Analysis articles on Migration & Refugees

Opinions and articles from the Analysis Department based in the Operational Centre Brussels and from guest contributors. MSF-Analysis - 15 Jun 2017

People are building huts on the grounds of the mission. They are afraid of going back to their neighborhoods as they fear new fighting between the autodefense groups and members of the Union pour la Paix en Centrafrique (UPC).

Central African Republic

Scores dead and thousands displaced as conflict erupts in Alindao

Conflict has erupted in recent weeks in several cities in the Central African Republic (CAR). In Alindao, in the centre of the country, more than a hundred people have been killed and thousands have been displaced. Voices from the Field - 9 Jun 2017

Syria

Airstrikes or minefields – Raqqa’s residents face a deadly choice

As fighting intensifies for control of the Syrian city of Raqqa, people must decide whether to remain in the city and surrounding villages under heavy bombardment, or leave the area by crossing active frontlines and minefields, says international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 9 Jun 2017

Thérèse Erede, 45, wounded by gunfire. Bambari's hospital.

Central African Republic

Will Bambari be next?

‘Will Bambari be next?’ This is the question on everyone’s lips in Central African Republic’s second city and commercial hub. Its residents worry that the violence engulfing the cities of Bangassou and Bria since early May – in the form of brutal massacres – could soon spread to Bambari, a repetition of the bloodshed of the 2013-2014 war. Project Update - 8 Jun 2017

A nurse fills a hyperdermic syringe with live yellow-fever vaccine in a church-cum-school used as a vaccination centre in the village of Kalungu II during an MSF vaccination campaign in Masisi territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on August 13, 2014. Kalungu II lies two and a half hours walk from Kishee.

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In 2017, the Operational Centre in Brussels created the Analysis department with the objective of supporting and challenging field operations in analysis, advocacy and networking, and producing critical analysis on the politics of health and humanitarianism based on MSF's experience . The MSF Analysis website is intended to stimulate debate on the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates. analysis.ocb.msf.org

In the maternity ward in Douentza two MSF midwives look after a newborn baby.

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Medical Guidelines: Essential obstetric and newborn care

Essential obstetric and newborn care is designed as a tool to help protect mothers and their children in adverse environments. It is intended for midwives, doctors with obstetrics training, and health care personnel who deal with obstetric emergencies. medicalguidelines.msf.org - 5 Jun 2017

A patient receives ART (Antiretroviral Therapy) at MSF’s Insein Clinic, Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 22, 2018.

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Medical Guidelines: Essential drugs

This guide is a practical manual intended for health professionals, physicians, pharmacists, nurses and health auxiliaries involved in curative care and drug management. We have tried to provide simple, practical solutions to the questions and problems faced by field medical staff, using the accumulated field experience of MSF, the recommendations of reference organisations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and specialised documentation in each field. medicalguidelines.msf.org - 5 Jun 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.

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