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Mohammed, Medco is evacuating wounded people after the bombing of one IDP camp in Rann.

“There are no health facilities in Rann. Nothing. The first health facilities are 2 hours away from Rann. Most of the victims that we saw where children”.
Mohammed Musoke, medical coordinator for OCP based in Maiduguri.
Nigeria

"Most of the dead and injured were women and children"

My colleague and I personally evacuated a number of severely injured patients, taking them to various hospitals in Maiduguri. Voices from the Field - 20 Jan 2017
 
Rann IDP camp after the bombing.
Nigeria

Death toll rising in Rann attack

“The people of Borno should be entitled to guarantees of protection and assistance. All parties to the conflict must ensure the safety of civilians, and we urge the Government of Nigeria to ensure the protection of its people,” says Bruno Jochum, MSF General Director. Statement - 19 Jan 2017
 
Daily dose of TB antibiotics and side effect drugs of the patient with MDR-TB. Every day this patient takes at the same time ten 2nd-line TB drugs, including PAS, notorious for severe side effects such as nausea, vomiting, dizziness. On the top of that she receives a painful injection of another TB antibiotic. The pills on the left side are to help her cope with the many side effects of the TB drugs, such as stomach pain, burning feeling in the chest and other.
Access to medicines

Pioneering clinical trial for drug-resistant tuberculosis starts

A pioneering clinical trial aiming to find a radically improved course of treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) began on 17 January 2017, when the first patient took the first pill in Uzbekistan. Press Release - 19 Jan 2017
 
A bombing by the Nigerian Army has occurred in an internally displaced person camps in Rann, Nigeria. MSF teams have seen 120 wounded and at least 50 dead following the bombing. Teams are trying to provide emergency first aid in its facility and are stabilizing patients to evacuate wounded. We are asking the authorities to put all measures in place in order to facilitate the emergency evacuation of wounded (by air and land). Our medical and surgical teams in Cameroon and Chad are ready to treat wounded patients.
Nigeria

“I can’t find the words to describe what I saw in Rann”

What the survivors of the bombing have lived through is so hard, so violent. Rann was their safe haven. The army that was meant to protect them bombed them instead. We have to remain at their side. Voices from the Field - 19 Jan 2017
 
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Global

MSF briefings and interventions at WHO Executive Board 140th session

MSF representatives are attending the 140th session of the WHO executive board meetings and will be attending and speaking on a number of topics. Event - 18 Jan 2017
 
MSF and SOS Mediterannee search and rescue personnel transfer an infant child to their dinghy in appalling conditions in the Mediterranean sea, 28 December 2016, as they help a boat in distress full of refugees and migrants off the northern coast of Libya.
Mediterranean migration

How to stop the rising tide of death in Mediterranean

"The EU needs to take urgent action to provide safe and legal channels for people to seek asylum and create legal migration pathways that make wider use of legal entry schemes," says Jens Pagotto, head of MSF's mission in Libya and its search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean. Voices from the Field - 18 Jan 2017
 
In late June, MSF and the health authorities have launched a study to confirm the preliminary resultsthat pointed out a drug intoxication as cause of the dystonic sydrome, and rule out any hypothesis. Community agents went to the communities to investigate.
Democratic Republic of Congo

An epidemic of dystonic reactions in central Africa

In December, 2014, an outbreak of suspected meningitis was investigated in Ituri District, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The Lancet Global Health - 17 Jan 2017
 
A bombing by the Nigerian Army has occurred in an internally displaced person camps in Rann, Nigeria. MSF teams have seen 120 wounded and at least 50 dead following the bombing. Teams are trying to provide emergency first aid in its facility and are stabilizing patients to evacuate wounded. We are asking the authorities to put all measures in place in order to facilitate the emergency evacuation of wounded (by air and land). Our medical and surgical teams in Cameroon and Chad are ready to treat wounded patients.
Nigeria

MSF strongly condemns the aerial bombing of a camp for displaced people in Rann

At least 120 people were wounded and 52 killed today in a bombing by the Nigerian Army on a camp for internally displaced people in Rann. Statement - 17 Jan 2017
 
In late June, MSF and the health authorities have launched a study to confirm the preliminary resultsthat pointed out a drug intoxication as cause of the dystonic sydrome, and rule out any hypothesis. Community agents went to the communities to investigate.
Democratic Republic of Congo

The alarming consequences of poor quality medicines

"Poor quality medicines negate all the modern advances made in pharmacy and public health," says Dr Peyraud Journal article - 17 Jan 2017
 
People fetch water in the Funu district of Bukavu early on a Sunday morning. 
In Bukavu most people still don´t have access to running water. Many rely on wa-ter from lake Kivu or surrounding rivers and streams.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence and its humanitarian impact: the case of Kivu

Research carried out by Duncan Maclean looking at the impact of violence on medical and humanitarian services in North Kivu, carried out for the MSF Analysis department of the operational centre in Brussels, MSF-Analysis - 16 Jan 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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