Jean François Saint-Sauveur, MSF medical director, has just returned from Borno State, where he was able to visit three of MSF's projects. Voices from the Field - 23 Feb 2017

(NOTE: trying to get the name of this village from Angeolo, the logistics guy) in Gorkha District, Nepal on May 7 2015.

On 25 April a magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 8,000 people and destroyed massive amounts of property, including numerous temples that were on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Natural hazards

MSF Evaluation Unit: reports on MSF disaster response

Evaluation Unit page with all our reports on MSF natural disaster response. MSF Evaluation Unit - 22 Feb 2017

Philippa Pett, “Pippa”, MSF doctor from the UK and Richard, MSF Community health worker, are consulting a child suffering from malnutrition.

South Sudan

Our community health workers are the MSF project

After the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Leer was repeatedly attacked, we realised we needed new ways to provide medical care. Dr Philippa Pett describes here how her team of local staff is providing healthcare to people on the move through a flexible network of mobile clinics. Voices from the Field - 21 Feb 2017

Roda is a mother of two. She attended the clinic with both children suffering from severe malnutrition. They had extensive skin disease, as they were both suffering from scabies and infection.

South Sudan

Protracted conflict at root of nutrition crisis

“The extreme level of violence has had a severe impact on people’s ability to meet basic needs such as safe drinking water, food supplies, shelter and healthcare,” says MSF project coordinator Nicolas Peissel. Project Update - 21 Feb 2017

MSF staff dressing in PPE to enter the high risk zone at MSF ETC in Donka, Conakry.

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

The Politics of Fear

New MSF book reveals that a fear-crippled response caused unnecessary deaths and suffering during the West African Ebola epidemic Press Release - 21 Feb 2017

Tanzania

Testimonies from refugees in Nduta and Nyarugusu camps

Over 290,000 people live in refugee camps in Tanzania's northwestern Kigoma district. Voices from the Field - 20 Feb 2017

South Africa

Sexual violence in platinum mining belt a major driver of HIV

MSF's 2015 survey of more than 800 Rustenburg women aged between 18 and 49 established that one in four have been raped in their lifetime. Press Release - 20 Feb 2017

Olivia Mangwiro, clinical psychologist talks to a patient in the mental heath ward.

Zimbabwe

“If I don’t help mentally ill patients, who will?”

Since 2012, MSF has run mental health programmes in Zimbabwe with the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services. Voices from the Field - 16 Feb 2017

The MSF-supported hospital in Ma’arat Al Numan before it was attacked and destroyed on Monday 15th Feb. At least 25 people were killed, including nine staff members.
The 30-bed hospital had 54 staff, two operating theatres, an outpatient department and an emergency room. The outpatient department treated around 1500 people a month, the ER carried out an average of 1,100 consultations a month, and around 140 operations a month, mainly orthopaedic and general surgery, were carried out in the operating theatres.

MSF has been supporting this hospital since September 2015 and covered all the needs of the facility including provision of medical supplies and running costs.

Attacks on medical care

Hospital bombings: Building evidence with images

Nearly 100 medical facilities belonging to, or supported by, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been bombed since 2015. Project Update - 15 Feb 2017

Iraq

Assisting people displaced from Hawija

"The gratitude from our patients is humbling and, as heavy as the air is in pockets here, we are all exactly where we need to be." Voices from the Field - 9 Feb 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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“There are dramatic gaps in healthcare”