Press Release - 21 Apr 2016

More than forty vaccination sites have been set up in the outskirts of Lusaka. Health promoters and community mobilisers, often volunteers from the neighbourhoods, go from street to streets to telling residents about cholera immunisation campaign and its benefits.

Zambia

Kicking out cholera with a megaphone

Zambians take part in record-breaking cholera prevention campaign Project Update - 21 Apr 2016

Farah Ateyo travelled 100km to Asbuli after his heard died and his family needed assistance. Hawa his little girl arrived two weeks prior with acute malnutrition,

Ethiopia

Pastoral communities badly hit by the worst drought in 30 years

“On any given day we can see between 90 and 200 children,” explains Fardowsa Jigre, team leader of an MSF outreach team. “When we see a malnourished child it is a sure sign that the whole family is hungry. But we can only help the most vulnerable. In Siti, the situation is very bad.” Project Update - 21 Apr 2016

Ecuador

People are very scared Many have had to leave their homes

"For now, the most critical needs are mental health support, and water and sanitation," says Concha Fernández, the project coordinator for two of the MSF teams currently responding to medical needs in Ecuador. "That’s why in the next few days, three psychologists and one logistician from the MSF team in Colombia will join us here. In Esmeralda, we will do small interventions in shelters in Chamanga, Muisne, Portete and Cabo de San Francisco." Crisis Update - 21 Apr 2016

Measuring the childs the wrist for malnutrition.

Ethiopia

Risk of food insecurity

Project Update - 20 Apr 2016

Patrick Luyeye and Selly Bentone (right) examine Nadine (28 yrs. old)

HIV/AIDS

Fight against HIV doomed to fail without urgent focus on West and Central Africa

“Countries with low antiretroviral coverage need to take advantage of the renewed ambitions worldwide to accelerate scale up of their HIV response”, says Dr Mit Philips, health policy advisor at MSF. “But it is unrealistic to think they can break the deadly status quo alone. If the world is serious in its goal of defeating AIDS, it is time to correct a too narrow focus of the Fast Track strategy and, as a matter of priority and urgency, to bring lifesaving ARVs to some of the most neglected victims of HIV/AIDS”. Report - 19 Apr 2016

Portrait of Odia at her home in Conakry, Guinea on March 18, 2016.

"I learnt in 2005 that I was HIV positive when I for a medical checkup. But the first time, it was my father who received the results from my tests and he did not tell me what they were. I returned to the hospital again with a friend of my mother and was tested again. That’s when I learnt I was HIV positive. I was stigmatised by my Aunty at first, today though I don't face problems. I am a counsellor in an MSF treatment centres for those who come for HIV tests."

MSF launched a HIV testing campaign in Conakry with the support of health authorities moving throughout several neighbourhoods throughout 2016.

In Guinea, only one in four people living with HIV are on life-saving antiretroviral treatment. Lack of voluntary HIV testing, estimated at only 5% from the latest study dating from 2012, hampers the necessary increase of people on ART.

HIV/AIDS

7 things you may believe about HIV/AIDS that turn out to be wrong

MSF calls for donors and UN agencies, in particular UNAIDS, the Global Fund, Pepfar and EU donors, as well as affected governments, to develop and implement a fast-track plan to scale-up life-saving antiretroviral treatment for countries where ART coverage reaches less than one-third of the population, particularly in West and Central Africa. Project Update - 19 Apr 2016

Syria

More than 100,000 people trapped in northern Syria by renewed fighting

“Yet again we see tens of thousands of people forced to flee but with almost nowhere safe to go” Press Release - 18 Apr 2016

Refugees look through a fence during a rain storm as they wait to be registred at the Moria Reception Centre on Lesbos island.

Greece

As a doctor, I feel outraged

"I’m afraid that European citizens do not know what kind of outrageous deal their states have signed in their behalf. If they knew, they would feel ashamed, sick, angry and betrayed, just like I do," says Federica Zamatto, MSF Medical Coordinator for Migration Programmes. Voices from the Field - 15 Apr 2016

A mother and her child in the Cholera treatment Unit (CTU) of Bweru. The baby is receiving treatment.

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF to resume medical humanitarian assistance in the Mweso health zone after 4 months absence

MSF is set to resume medical humanitarian activities in Mweso, four months after armed men attacked a convoy and abducted two of our staff members, forcing us to close our projects in the area. Press Release - 15 Apr 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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