“I had the opportunity to work in Germany but I refused,” says Thurayia Zein Al Abideen, a paediatrician at MSF’s Al Salamah hospital in Azaz district, northern Syria. “I want to work in Syria, because people need us and we are facing a huge shortage of doctors.” Voices from the Field - 23 Jun 2016

"This is the first time MSF has been able to access Bama, but we already know the needs of the people there are beyond critical,” said Ghada Hatim, MSF head of mission in Nigeria. “We are treating malnourished children in medical facilities in Maiduguri and see the trauma on the faces of our patients who have witnessed and survived many horrors.”

During its assessment, the MSF team counted 1233 cemetery graves located near the camp which had been dug in the past year. Many of those graves—480—were of children
“Bama is largely closed off,” said Hatim. “We have been told that people including children there half starved to death. According to the accounts given to MSF by displaced people in Bama new graves are appearing on a daily basis. We were told more than 30 people are dying a day due to hunger and illness.”

Nigeria

At least 24,000 displaced people in dire health situation in Bama

Critical humanitarian needs identified for displaced in Bama, Borno State, Nigeria Press Release - 22 Jun 2016

MSF lab-tech Fabiola looks at a suspected case of sleeping sickness under the microscope in MSFâ??s mobile laboratory. She is looking for signs of the parasite in the blood sample.

MSF Scientific Day

MSF Scientific Days 2016

The MSF Scientific Days 2016 took place on 20 and 21 May 2016 in London, New Delhi and Johannesburg. Event - 22 Jun 2016

Malakal: MSF teams in Malakal worked through the nights of Wednesday and Thursday to deal with injured patients after fighting erupted in the Protection of Civilians (PoC) site on Wednesday that resulted in 18 people dead, two of them MSF South Sudanese staff members. Seventy-three patients have been admitted so far to the hospital, 46 of them with gunshot wounds. One of MSF’s main concerns is the fate of 43,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) who took shelter in the UNMISS compound. They have been squeezed into a very tight area and access to water and sanitation is of real concern. MSF does not know how long they will be permitted to remain in the facility.

South Sudan

Report details UN's failures in protecting civilians in Malakal

MSF releases a report on the response to February Malakal PoC attack Press Release - 22 Jun 2016

MSF mobile clinic in Gari Wanzam where thousands of newly displaced people from Bosso district have have sought refuge in the last days.

Niger

Humanitarian aid is barely in place in the Diffa region

MSF delivers water supplies and provides healthcare to people recently displaced by violence in the southeast of Niger. Project Update - 21 Jun 2016

95% of the patients who are coming to the health facilities in Pawa and Boma-Mangbetu areas are tested positive to malaria. After one month of intervention, 40000 patients have been taken care of.

Democratic Republic of Congo

40,000 people treated for malaria as disease surges

Project Update - 21 Jun 2016

In February, the government announced measles, rubella and rabies epidemics. In response, MSF organised three mass measles vaccination campaigns for children under 15 in the town of Bria, at the displaced people camp in Batangafo, as well as in Batangafo town and the cities of Nzako and Bakouma. By the end of March, 33,000 children had been vaccinated.

International Financial Report 2015

Annual Report - 20 Jun 2016

Portrait of Hussein Shuhaib, 27 from Syria.

'Here we have suffered a lot. For example, in this camp there are 12,000-13,000 human beings. My children are getting sick.
I’m a father, I have two children, my family are with me. We’ve been here for 9 days is this not shameful? We demand they open up this border crossing, we have children, families, women, babies. The most difficult thing is the children’s illnesses. I have a one year old child, and another who is two and a half years old they cannot handle this weather, this rain, this sun See, they are staying in small tents These are summer tents, not for the winter. My children don’t understand why the border crossing is closed. My son always asks:
“Dad, when are we going home? Dad, when are we going home?” Of course! We left the war as refugees, not as tourists, or a vacation. If there was nothing happening in Syria, we wouldn’t have left.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Refugee Day 2016: Don't let this be the #LastRefugeeDay!

More than 60 million people are displaced around the world in search of safety and protection. They come from conflict zones and places where they are persecuted for their thoughts, their religion, their sexual orientation, their political opinions. Photo Story - 20 Jun 2016

08 June. Three boats containing approximately 150 people each were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Bourbon Argos and taken to Sicily, Italy.

Mediterranean migration

EU Migration Crisis Update - June 2016

Since 1 January 2016, 200,000 people have arrived on European shores by sea. The great part of them arrived through the Aegean Sea before the closure of the so called Balkan road and around 50,000 arrived in Italy through the dangerous Central Mediterranean route. At least 50,000 are stuck in Greece after the closure of the Balkan route, with the extremely dangerous Central Mediterranean becoming one of the few remaining opportunities to reach Europe for thousands of people. Crisis Update - 17 Jun 2016

Greece

I’ve met the people the EU has decided to no longer welcome and protect

By Dr. Conor Kenny, in collaboration with Ifigenia Anastasiadi and Elisa Compagnone Voices from the Field - 17 Jun 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.

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MSF staff on working at Al Salamah hospital, Azaz