Open letter to the leaders of EU Member States and institutions Open Letter - 13 May 2016

Idomeni, border between Greece and Macedonia domeni, frontière entre la grèce et la macédoine. 1 200 refugees are stuck since the closing of the border, waiting for an agreement between Europe and Turkey (which happened on March 18th 2016)

Mediterranean migration

The mismanagement and poor planning Europe is demonstrating is beyond belief

“All over Greece we are witnessing the consequences of inhumane policies that have left thousands stranded and forgotten without access to basic services or information. European states and authorities have decided to make deterrence their only priority and given up on providing protection and assistance to these people – despite their moral and legal responsibility to do so.” Project Update - 12 May 2016

Khaled, a Yazidi man from Sinjar mountain in Iraqi Kurdistan. He is in Katsikas camp with his family since March 18, 2016.

Project Update

Testimony from Yazidi refugees in Katsikas Camp, Greece

"We thought that Europe might protect people who have suffered the kind of suffering we have undergone. But we feel like criminals, forced to hide in the mountain, " says Shemi, an Yazidi refugee in Greece. "Look at where we are. We pray that someone hears us, so that the road opens. I don’t want to die here. I don’t want to die watching my grandchildren suffering. " Voices from the Field - 12 May 2016

Global

Shorter TB regimens offer new hope

By Leonardo Palumbo, Regional Advocacy Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan Opinion - 12 May 2016

People hold hands on a beach in Molyvos, Lesbos, calling for safe passage and no more deaths. The activity was held in solidarity with other protests across Europe on Saturday February 27 as thousands of people in more than 100 cities marched in support of refugee rights.
Copyright: Giorgos Moutafis / MSF / Greenpeace

Mediterranean migration

In 2016 who still counts as human?

"Through this deal, EU leaders have made a choice that should raise serious questions for the citizens of affluent Europe. In 2016 who still counts as human? Whose lives matter? What happened to empathy? And where has solidarity gone when faced with the anguish and despair of those whose lives have been shattered?" Statement - 12 May 2016

Central African Republic

Thousands of South Sudanese refugees living in deplorable conditions

Project Update - 11 May 2016

The entrance of the MSF-supported health centre in Boguila, where MSF has been working since 2007. Nineteen people, including three Central African MSF staff members, were killed during an armed robbery in the grounds of MSF’s hospital in Boguila, Central African Republic, on 26 April 2014. Immediately after the tragedy, MSF made the decision to reduce its activities, and the hospital now functions as a health centre, where an MSF team continues to answer people’s medical needs in an area where no other healthcare is available.

Central African Republic

Humanitarians need to go where no one else wants to

Midwife Carlen Mezendy Ndakala is the delivery room supervisor at the MSF maternity clinic in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. She shares some of her experiences providing humanitarian care in a highly unstable environment. Voices from the Field - 11 May 2016

In southern Mali, children struggle with endemic malnutrition, the heavy toll of seasonal malaria, and other preventable diseases such as diarrhoea and lower respiratory tract infections. Since 2009, Medecins Sans Frontieres is partnering with the Ministry of Health to link prevention and treatment across community and hospital levels of care for the best outcomes for children under 5, in Koutiala.
Koutiala is MSF’s most comprehensive paediatrics project, committed to strengthening prevention, early detection and diagnosis, as well as improving the quality and scope of care to treat the sickest children. It builds on the community-level “paediatric package”, addressing nutrition, vaccination, hygiene and health education via outreach and community health centres (CSCOM; currently 5) with the MSF-run paediatrics department within the Ministry of Health regional general referral hospital, Centre de Sante de Reference de Koutiala, or CSREF. In 2014 the hospital expanded to 200 beds.

Child health

A day in one of our largest paediatric programmes

Paediatrics advisor Dr David Green has recently arrived in Koutiala, southern Mali, on an extended visit to one of the largest paediatric programmes run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He describes a recent Monday working with national staff doctors, who share their wealth of experience in the six-year-old project. Voices from the Field - 11 May 2016

South Sudan

The book that travelled too much

A poignant story about a heroic MSF local staffer, Jeremiah, who went to great lengths to ensure continuity of care for his HIV patients in South Sudan who had been displaced by war. “The patients think they are the happiest people. But I’m even happier than they are, because now I can see them and I can see that they are OK. They are getting healthy and their lives can continue. I am very happy for them, very happy,” says Jeremiah. Project Update - 11 May 2016

Elise, 12, is HIV positive and following a tough experience with ARV drugs she is suffering greatly.

HIV/AIDS

HIV in children is a symptom of the failures of the AIDS response

“The upcoming UN high level meeting on HIV/AIDS is a unique, and perhaps the last, opportunity to close the treatment gap, not only for children but also for all people living with HIV. Governments of countries left behind the HIV/AIDS response, particularly in West and Central Africa, should seize this chance to ask loud and clear an increased commitment from the international community to intensify the HIV response for people facing a deadly treatment gap”, says Dr Mit Philips, MSF’s health policy advisor. Report - 10 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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