"I had to leave one place after the other due to repeated attacks." Project Update - 10 May 2017

Besam’s child is 7 months old. She brought him to the health center because he keeps vomiting and has diarrhea and fever. The child is malnurished and according to the doctor, such cases happen very often: « mothers stop breastfeeding and replace their milk with powder one but the water isn’t clean and the children get sick. We have to cure the sickness and they get immediately healthy again ».

Yemen

MSF calls for increased response to cholera outbreak

"We are very concerned that the disease will continue to spread and become out of control." Press Release - 9 May 2017

Zahardien Musa, a meningitis patient from Sokoto, being admitted at the Muhammed Murtala Specialist Hospital of Sokoto, with his father.

Nigeria

Fighting the worst meningitis C outbreak since 2008

Thousands of men, women, and children in northern Nigeria have been affected by a meningitis C outbreak, reportedly the largest to hit the country in the past nine years. Project Update - 9 May 2017

The strike on Tafas field hospital, some 12 km from the Jordanian border, took place on the night of 5 February. It caused partial damage to the hospital building, and put its heavily-used ambulance service out of action. In fear for their lives, more than 20,000 people from Tafas town fled to the surrounding countryside. The hospital is the latest medical facility to be hit in a series of airstrikes in southern Syria, which have been escalating over the past two months.

Syria

"MSF adapts to respond to the needs of a war-afflicted population"

Omar Obeid has been working as Project Coordinator for an MSF South Syria project, managing it remotely for the last 14 months. Over the past few weeks, fighting has intensified in southern Syria, as opposing forces contest to retake the city of Dara’a. As bombings and aerial attacks in Eastern Dara’a increased, hospitals and medical structures in the area have been forced to announce their closure to avoid being targeted Voices from the Field - 8 May 2017

MSF staff member Patricia, changes 5 year old Faten's bandages. She was injured when she was playing in a garden. At the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Post Op Hospital South of Mosul, Iraq.

Told by her father:

“When our neighbourhood in West Mosul was retaken by the Iraqi army we went back to our house. Faten was playing in the garden when a mortar bomb fell in the garden and exploded. Faten was injured in the leg by shrapnel from the bomb. First we took her to MSF in Hammam Al Alil where she received the first aid. From there she was referred to another field hospital in Bartella for further treatment. Now she is here in the post-operative ward in Hamdanyia hospital. Every day the staff here clean her wounds and puts new bandages on. Faten is a brave girl, she likes to play and laugh butt she misses her brothers and sisters at home and at night she cries. All her 7 siblings are doing well, praise to God”.

Iraq

Crisis update Mosul - May 2017

“Most hospitals in Mosul have been damaged or destroyed.” Crisis Update - 8 May 2017

13-year-old Dilbar in the new playground at the paediatric TB hospital in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The playground was funded by MSF. For young TB patients or family members this is a very welcome distraction in the often long and difficult treatment process.

Tuberculosis

New report highlights need to better tackle world’s deadliest infectious disease

Two days ahead of the G20 summit in Germany, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Stop TB Partnership released the third edition of Out of Step, a report highlighting the need for governments to increase efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB). Project Update - 7 May 2017

Syria

MSF condemns incursion by armed men into supported hospitals in East Ghouta

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. Statement - 1 May 2017

A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff member vaccinates a child during a measles vaccination campaign in Samba and neighboring zones in Maniema region, DRC.

26 MSF teams plan to vaccinate more than 58.000 children, in one week.

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF staff treat measles cases across five provinces

“When measles arrived in our village, a lot of children died." Press Release - 28 Apr 2017

On April 27th 2016, dozens of volunteers from Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) delivered to Pfizer global headquarter in New York, the names of nearly 400 000 people asking Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to 5 dollars per child in developing countries. The silent march started from Grand Central Station and ended at Pfizer HQ. There the volunteers dropped 2500 flowers (the equivalent of the number of children dying of pneumonia every day) in an empty crib containing the names of people who has signed the petition. Pfizer accepted the crib. On this picture Doctors Without Borders volunteers and supporters drop 2500 flowers into an empty crib in front of Pfizer global Headquarter.

Vaccination

Investors join MSF in calling Pfizer to reduce the price of pneumonia vaccine

"We call on Pfizer to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to $5 for all three doses, for all children in all developing countries.” Press Release - 27 Apr 2017

Refugees are forced to flee Kodok for Aburoc after intense fighting.

South Sudan

Intense fighting around Kodok forces up to 25,000 people to flee without humanitarian support

“This is a disaster in the making, just as the demand is greatest." Press Release - 27 Apr 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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