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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Constance, a 22-year old woman from Kaniosha, Burundi lost her husband and child, who have been killed, while she has been beaten, strangled and left for dead. She just arrived in Manyovu. "I cannot walk anymore. My legs hurt, and I have pain in my head. Militias came to my house. They killed my husband and my son in front of me. I have been beaten up everywhere. They strangulated me and left me on the floor thinking I was dead also. But I wasn’t dead, I was unconscious. The next day I managed to find enough strength to stand up and escape. I will never go back to Burundi. "

Tanzania

One year of turmoil for Burundian refugees

Project Update - 1 Jun 2016

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff members fumigate a neighbourhood in Matadi, during an operation to kill adult mosquitoes.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Hunting down mosquitoes to combat yellow fever

Following the outbreak of yellow fever in the DRC, linked to the one that hit neighbouring Angola in December, MSF conducted activities in the southwest of the country to stop the spread of the disease.

Entomologist Andre Yebakima was among MSF's team who carried out an initial assessment. Voices from the Field - 31 May 2016

Democratic Republic of Congo

Yellow fever: Everyone needs to remain vigilant and responsive to avoid an explosion

An outbreak of yellow fever has been ravaging Angola since December 2015, raising fears that the disease will spread to other African countries or Asia. The limited stocks of vaccines constitute a particular challenge.

Michel Van Herp, an epidemiologist with MSF, gave us an update on the situation. Crisis Update - 31 May 2016

A Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) staff member carries cold boxes containing yellow fever vaccines on the first day of the vaccination programme in Matadi, DRC.

Angola

MSF teams help curb yellow fever

Project Update - 31 May 2016

Global

G7 fail to address the biggest threats to global health

MSF is disappointed that the solutions proposed by the G7 will not address these failures head-on, and the barriers to access to affordable medicines which they create. "The laudable aim of universal health coverage is going to be severely hamstrung without investing in approaches to research and development that encourage patients’ needs-based innovation and are not dictated by the perspective of high market profit," said Jeremie Bodin, General Director of MSF Japan. Press Release - 27 May 2016

Carte du camp de Calais dessinée sur un carton affichée dans le hangar de MSF.

France

Update on Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp

Crisis Update - 27 May 2016

Chikungunya

Learn more about MSF's work treating chikungunya Project Update - 27 May 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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