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.

Website

MSF Analysis

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.

Medical resource

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.

Medical resource

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

Tuberculosis

Medical Guidelines: Tuberculosis

This guide has been developed jointly by Médecins Sans Frontières and Partners In Health. It aims at providing useful information to the clinicians and health staff for the comprehensive management of tuberculosis. Forms of susceptible and resistant tuberculosis, tuberculosis in children, and HIV co-infection are all fully addressed. medicalguidelines.msf.org - 5 Jun 2017

William Nyuon Kuolang, 41, is a father of 5. He used to live in Yuai, a place he fled on the 15th of February 2017 following some fighting between the SPLA and opposition groups. Since then, he lives with his family in a village near Pieri.

South Sudan

“They killed the women, the girls, everybody in the town”

"I left Yuai on 15 February because of the fighting. I left running, there was no time to take anything," says William Nyuon Kuolang, 41, a father of five. Voices from the Field - 2 Jun 2017

Jonathan Skillen, a MSF nurse, gives explanations to Chuol Gatweck Leo and John Malith Reath, two freshly recruited MSF staff, on how to fill the register book.

South Sudan

Thousands at risk of cholera and malnutrition after fleeing attacks in Yuai and Waat

More than 27,000 people have fled their homes since mid-February after clashes between the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and opposition groups. Press Release - 2 Jun 2017

Water and sanitation

The Evolution of Emergency WASH in Humanitarian Action

This report provides an overview of both historical trends and current challenges in emergency WASH programming. Some ways forward are suggested and can be summarised as three key take-home points. arhp.msf.es - 1 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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Scores dead and thousands displaced as conflict erupts in Alindao