Suspension of US refugee resettlement endangers people fleeing war zones

President Donald J. Trump’s executive order suspending refugee resettlement to the United States is an inhumane act against people fleeing war zones. Statement - 29 Jan 2017

The remains of a bed frame in a room on eastern wing of the main Outpatient Department building.

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Attack on Kunduz Trauma Centre

On 3 October 2015, U.S. airstrikes killed 42 people and destroyed the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. As we grieve the loss of our colleagues and patients, we are left with the question: is it still possible to safely provide medical care on the frontline? kunduz.msf.org

A medical worker is sprayed down after testing a patient for Ebola at the Nongo Ebola Treatment Clinic in Conakry, Guinea on November 26, 2015.

The clinic is treating the last known Ebola patient in Guinea. A month old baby named Nubia, whose mother died after giving birth on October 27th.

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Killer Diseases

People know little about killer diseases. Who contracts them? How can they be fought? What are the prospects for research? Seeking to answer some of these questions, this educational web documentary puts seven of these diseases (antibiotic resistance, Ebola, hepatitis C, malaria, measles, tuberculosis and HIV-AIDS) under the microscope. killer-diseases.org

Killer diseases

Seven killer diseases under the microscope

One of the outcomes of a partnership of Médecins Sans Frontières (in cooperation with EUP - État d’Urgence Production), DNDi, Institut Pasteur, Fondation Mérieux, Universcience, lNSERM and CANOPE, this web documentary offers a fresh perspective on Killer Diseases. Documentary - 27 Jan 2017

During 2016, MSF expanded its activities in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, and its sister city Comayagüela, where it provides mental healthcare for victims of various types of violence, including kidnapping, extortion, assault, threats and other high-impact violent events. MSF’s mental health teams provide individual sessions, group sessions and activities such as psychosocial workshops. “We try to work on the emotions, feelings and thoughts that people experience as a result of what happened to them,” says MSF mental health supervisor Edgard Boquín

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Mental healthcare for victims of violence

During 2016, MSF expanded its activities in Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela, where it provides mental healthcare for victims of violence. Project Update - 26 Jan 2017

TB doctor Irma Davitadze at work at the Regional Center of Infectious Pathology, AIDS and Tuberculosis in Batumi, a beach resort town on the Black Sea. MSF has worked here since 2014.

Access to medicines

Public health groups welcome agreement for development of promising new TB drug

While deal marks a critical step in the fight against TB, health groups warn that the deal lacks safeguards that would ensure worldwide affordability. Press Release - 26 Jan 2017

Since the beginning of 2016, more than 400,000 South Sudanese new refugees have arrived in Uganda, usually entering through informal border points or arriving through DRC. The vast majority come from the Central Equatoria State between Juba and the DRC border. The first waves of refugees were fleeing following the clash that erupted in Juba last July between SPLA and SPLA-IO, while the most recent ran away from widespread insecurity around the town of Yei.

Most of the new arrivals have been hosted in the main Bidibidi Refugee Complex, which is approximately 32 km long from north (zone 2) to south (zone 4 Annex) and 20 km long from east (zone 5) to west (zone 4). MSF provides medical care and water supply.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

South Sudanese refugees in Northern Uganda

MSF provides medical care inside the refugee complex. Most common pathologies are malaria and diarrhoeas but chronic diseases and mental health are also an issue.
Photo Story - 26 Jan 2017

A student of a girls’ school in Port-au-Prince walks by a mural depicting the suppression of women in Haiti. [The graffiti artist is Jerry Rosembert.]

Women's health

The Mexico City Policy endangers women's lives

Unsafe abortion is one of the five main causes of maternal mortality worldwide, together with haemorrhage, eclampsia, sepsis and obstructed labour. Statement - 26 Jan 2017

Palliative care

Palliative Care in Humanitarian Medicine

UREPH is pleased to announce the publication of the article “Palliative Care in Humanitarian Medicine” by James Smith and Tammam Aloudat in the journal Palliative Medicine. Journal article - 25 Jan 2017

Access to Healthcare

Insecurity - always an insurmountable obstacle?

This paper attempts to offer a reflection on the subject of risk acceptance, and some of the underlying factors that – apart from the actual security threat – influence security decision-making in the humanitarian sector. Report - 25 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.

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