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South Sudan

Patient story - Nyajuba

Nya is one of the 201 patients who received surgery from MSF following the recent clashes in South Sudan, 54 of which were major operations. Voices from the Field - 5 Sep 2016
 
An MSF team is installing solar panels on the roof of Shamwana hospital, to make sure electricity remains on in the hospital and keeps the cold chain running. The sustainable and environmentally friendly solution will replace approximately 1,000
litres of diesel per month.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Lights off... and on again! Solar energy for a sustainable Shamwana

Project Update - 5 Sep 2016
Humanitarian challenges

Saving Lives and Staying Alive

In Saving Lives and Staying Alive, the authors look at the drivers of the professionalisation of humanitarian security and its impact on humanitarian practices, with a specific focus on Syria, the Central African Republic and kidnapping in the Caucasus. Book - 5 Sep 2016
 
This baby girl was born premature at 30 weeks, about 7 weeks to early. She weighed 1860 grams and had to be resuscitated, she had amniotic fluid in her lungs.  She is the 6th daughter of her mother Veronique Francil (36), and she was delivered through a c-section. Veronique says she was sterilized at her own request when they performed the c-section. Her husband decided this. He would like to have a son, but thinks she should stop trying to have babies. Veronique is afraid he will now find a new wife.
Website

MSF Paediatric Days

MSF Paediatric Days is an annual event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field. paediatrics.msf.org/
 
Twice a day MSF organizes a health promotion in the VVF (Vesico-Vaginal Fistula)
camp of Shamwana. The "village" as it is called is a temporary institution in
Tanganyika province, in southern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where women are
being operated in order to repair their fistulas. Through singing and dancing health
messages are passed on to the forty women and their caretakers, who are also
involved as well and support the health promotion acoustically.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Vesico vaginal fistula camp living with dignity in solidarity

In July and August 2016, MSF organised a fistula camp in Shamwana, where 40 women received operations to repair their fistulas. Project Update - 31 Aug 2016
 
The most recent drugs used to tackle DR TB were strong antibiotics developed in the 1940s, and the combination of pills, powders and injections frequently have severe mental and physical side effects.
Medical resource

MSF Medical Product Qualification Scheme

MSF Qualification Scheme MSF medical resource - 30 Aug 2016
 
rVSV-EBOV experimental vaccine against Ebola.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

The Ebola clinical trials: a precedent for research ethics in disasters

MSF's Research Unit on Humanitarian Stakes and Practices (UREPH) is pleased to announce the publication of the article "The Ebola clinical trials: a precedent for research ethics in disasters" by Philippe Calain in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Journal article - 30 Aug 2016
 
Rescuing the first people and bringing them safely back on board of Dignity I
Mediterranean migration

MSF assists in rescue of 3,000 people in a single day

"This is one of the largest numbers of people we have assisted in any single day since our search and rescue operations began over a year ago," says Nicholas Papachrysostomou, Field Coordinator for Dignity I. Press Release - 30 Aug 2016
 
In May 2016, Dutch photographer Ton Koene travelled to Iraq - to the governorates of  Sulaymaniyah and Diyala in the northeast - to chronicle the daily lives of tens of thousands of internally displaced populations (IDPs) and returnees.

MSF provides Health Promotion and Community Engagement Activities in Khanaqin refugee camp in northeast Iraq.
Iraq

Mental health and war trauma in Iraq

Project Update - 29 Aug 2016
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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