Events are latest consequences of absurd humanitarian crisis created by Europe Project Update - 10 Apr 2016

Cholera Vaccination at St Joseph Churh, one of the 15 sites of vaccination in Kanyama districts.

Zambia

Largest ever oral cholera vaccination campaign underway in Lusaka

“Lusaka has experienced regular cholera epidemics in the past, but this is the first outbreak since 2010,” says Caroline Voûte, MSF emergency coordinator. “With such a long period between outbreaks, the population has little to no acquired immunity to the disease, leaving a ‘blank slate’ for cholera transmission in these densely populated, flood-prone areas.” Press Release - 9 Apr 2016

In January and February MSF teams were able to send 50 trucks with approximately 550 tons of drugs, medical material, shelters and non-food items to supported medical facilities and displacement camps in Aleppo citiy and its northern coutryside.

Syria

Despite cease fire catalogue of horror continues in besieged areas

Although the cease-fire and the humanitarian convoys have contributed to a decrease in humanitarian consequences of the conflict, the situation remains critical in many besieged areas. “The catalogue of horror continues virtually unabated in many besieged areas,” says Dr Bart Janssens, MSF Director of Operations. Project Update - 7 Apr 2016

South Sudan

MSF issues open letter on nationwide lack of essential medicines

“The conflict in South Sudan has now continued for over two years, heavily impacting its population,” Dr. Liu wrote, calling the worsening drug shortages “an additional and preventable medical emergency.” Statement - 7 Apr 2016

At the crossing of MSF vaccination team, some fishermen come close to the boat and vaccination takes place directly on the water.

Malawi

A cholera response among fishing communities on and around Lake Chilwa

Each year there are between three million and five million cases of cholera worldwide, causing between 100,000 to 120,000 deaths. In 2014, MSF treated around 21,000 cases of cholera in its projects worldwide. The first case of cholera was registered in Malawi in 1973. Outbreaks have occurred almost every year since with the highest number of cases and deaths reported in 2001–2002. Photo Story - 4 Apr 2016

An interior view of the MSF Trauma Centre, 14 October 2015, shows a missile hole in the wall and the burnt-out remians of the the building aftera sustained attack on the facility in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan..

Kunduz hospital attack

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Voices from the Field - 3 Apr 2016

Interior of the Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, destroyed on the 3rd October 2016 in a sustained bombing attack by the US airforce on the facility.

Kunduz hospital attack

Kunduz: 6 months later

On 3 October 2015, MSF’s trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was destroyed by precise and repeated U.S. airstrikes. The attack killed 42 people, including 14 MSF staff members, 24 patients and four caretakers, and wounded dozens more. The facility was a fully functioning hospital at the time of the attack and was therefore protected under International Humanitarian Law. Project Update - 3 Apr 2016

A young patient, whose leg was severly damaged when struck by shrapnel from a mortar, is visited by his father at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Kunduz Trauma Centre where free treatment is provided to patients regardless of their political affiliation (ie. the side on which the fight in the war between the armed opposition group and Government forces) . MSF’s trauma centre is the only facility of its kind in the whole north-eastern region of Afghanistan providing high level life- and limb-saving trauma care. MSF opened Kunduz Trauma Centre in August 2011 to provide high quality, free medical and surgical care to victims of trauma such as traffic accidents, as well as those with conflict related injuries from bomb blasts or gunshots.

Kunduz hospital attack

What has been lost

Voices from the Field - 3 Apr 2016

Many people displaced by the conflict have found refuge in Mboko airport, Bangui, CAR.

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South Sudan

Activity Update, March 2016

MSF condemns the outrageous violence in the Malakal Protection of Civilians site on February 17 and 18, which claimed the lives of 19 people, including two MSF staff. MSF employs more than 3,000 South Sudanese staff and 330 international staff to respond to a wide range of medical emergencies and provide free and high quality healthcare to people in need in 17 project locations across the country. Crisis Update - 1 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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Largest ever oral cholera vaccination campaign underway in Lusaka

Despite cease fire catalogue of horror continues in besieged areas

MSF issues open letter on nationwide lack of essential medicines

A cholera response among fishing communities on and around Lake Chilwa

This is my story

Kunduz: 6 months later

What has been lost

Emergency Gap

Activity Update, March 2016

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

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