Newborns, children and adolescents constitute a major part of MSF patients worldwide. Committed to enhancing the quality of care and address current paediatric issues, MSF is now organising its first paediatric days in Stockholm 23-24 September. Project Update - 8 Jun 2016

MSF Medical Doctor Pippa Pett examines a child in the MSF IPD ward in Thonyor, South Sudan.

Child health

First MSF Paediatric days to be organised in Stockholm

New-borns, children and adolescents constitute a major part of MSF patients worldwide. Committed to enhancing the quality of care and address current paediatric issues, MSF is now organising its first paediatric days in Stockholm 23-24 September. Event - 8 Jun 2016

HIV/AIDS

Governments at UN must address severe lack of treatment access in West and Central Africa during High-Level Meeting

Ahead of the UN High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS this week (8-10 June), the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) commended governments for deliberating a critical goal that 30 million people should be reached with life-saving HIV treatment by 2020, but also warned that governments need to speed up the scale-up of treatment for people in countries where critical medicines reach fewer than one-third of those in need. Press Release - 7 Jun 2016

Shad Shouqi, A three years old child injured after two rockets hit his house.

A rocket caused these 3 kids from the same family to get injured by shrapnel and blasts. Two rockets destroyed their home in Taiz, Yemen, killed their mother, their father is still missing.

Yemen

122 people severely wounded in one day as fighting pounds the city of Taiz

Project Update - 6 Jun 2016

6-year old Nyajinma was bitten by a snake as she was sleeping. Her mother carried for an hour and a half to the nearest health centre only to discover that no treatment was available. She was referred to the MSF hospital in Agok where she immediately received two doses of antivenom.

South Sudan

Little hope of a cure for the most vulnerable

Project Update - 3 Jun 2016

Yahya Jarad, nursing supervisor at MSF´s Al Salamah Hospital:
"We hope the war will come to an end and the bloodshed will stop. but, it seems it´s not likely to happen soon."

Syria

We hope the bloodshed will stop, but it’s not likely to happen soon.

Yahya Jarad, nursing superviser at MSF's Al Salamah hospital in Azaz, speaks about practising medicine in a community under siege. Voices from the Field - 2 Jun 2016

Syria

People trapped in Azaz urgently need safe haven - Turkey and the EU must open their borders

An estimated 100,000 people trapped in the Azaz district of Syria, between the frontline with the Islamic State group and the Turkish border, must be allowed to reach safe haven in Turkey. Europe must also honour its moral and legal commitments by granting asylum to those fleeing from this conflict. Press Release - 2 Jun 2016

23rd may 2016. Three boats containing approximately 150 people each were rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Bourbon Argos and taken to Sicily, Italy.

Italy

I cannot accept that children or adults can die like this. I cannot accept it. Never.

Interview with MSF psychologist Aurelia Barbieri, in Catania, Sicily Voices from the Field - 2 Jun 2016

Mozambique

Reaching out to sex workers in the Beira corridor

Most in need of HIV care, but with low access Project Update - 2 Jun 2016

On the way to Castor hospital, Bangui.
Half a million people have been displaced in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, fleeing the fighting that took place there in December between the self-defence groups called anti-Balaka (anti-machete) and the forces of the ex-Séléka. The UN estimates that the number of displaced people throughout CAR could be more than 900,000 people, in a country twice the size of France and with only 4.6 million inhabitants.
The fighting in Bangui caused at least a thousand deaths in December. Since then, MSF has treated almost 3,000 people wounded by grenades, gunshot or machetes. The medical organisation is also assisting people in different displaced camps in the city, such as at the airport (100,000 people), Boy Rabe (35,000) or Don Bosco (35,000). Humanitarian aid has been slow to get to the displaced people, especially in need of water and sanitation. While Christians have fled to the airport (protected by French troops) and religious centres, Muslims are regrouping in their own neighborhoods or leaving Bangui and the country in their thousands.

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Applied Reflection on Humanitarian Practice (ARHP)

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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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First ever MSF Paediatric Days