Interview with Pier-Luigi Testa, MSF's Deputy Emergency Programme Manager. Voices from the Field - 6 Jan 2012

OPD ward in Agok. MSF is responding to the consequences of fighting in the Abyei region of Sudan following violent clashes that began on the night of Friday 20 May. Whole towns have been emptied and thousands of people are on the move in a bid to escape the fighting. The situation in the area remains extremely volatile. The population left their homes with few belongings, and travelling conditions are particularly harsh now that the rainy season has started and the roads are muddy.

South Sudan

Emergencies unfolding one after another

Six months after the birth of South Sudan as the world’s newest independent country, a series of emergencies are unfolding that require urgent humanitarian response. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has scaled up into full emergency mode in Upper Nile State to respond to the sudden influx of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in neighbouring Sudan. Press Release - 23 Dec 2011

Life3. Phumeza. TB Diagnostics.
Phumeza is 21 years old and is currently confined to a bed in a tuberculosis (TB) care centre in Khayelitsha near Cape Town, South Africa. MSF is provi-ding her treatment for the most virulent form of TB currently known - extensively drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB.

Access to medicines

Ten Stories that Mattered in Access to Medicines in 2011

This report looks at developments in 2011 that had an impact, both positive or negative, on people’s ability to access drugs, diagnostics and vaccines in developing countries. It also looks at key policy developments of the year, such as the unprecedented funding shortfalls at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Report - 22 Dec 2011

New Yourpea Refugee Transit Camp, Saclepea town, Nimba district, Liberia, at the border with Ivory Coast. Ivorian refugees have spent three days in the transit camp before being brought to the Bahn Refugee camp, set up by UNHCR for 15,000 people. This group of people are putting their belongings in the truck and are about to leave for the camp. As the situation continues to deteriorate in Ivory Coast, nearly 80,000 Ivorian have fled their country and sought refuge in Liberia.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Sweet Sixty?

As the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees turns 60, refugees’ health and lives are being put in danger as a result of restrictive government policies and serious shortfalls in assistance. Report - 15 Dec 2011

MSF is working in kabo hospital with all the illness and all the diferent patients that come to kabo hospital
*** Local Caption *** Depuis 1999, MSF fournit des soins medicaux aux populations centrafricaines touchees par une tres grande pauvrete, la violence et l?insecurite, en particulier dans le nord de la republique Centrafricaine.
MSF travaille dans des hopitaux, des centres de sante en peripherie afin de fournir un acces aux soins aux populations, y compris celles qui vivent dans les zones les plus isolees, grace a des cliniques mobiles.

Central African Republic

Mortality rate in Central African Republic reaches an emergency level

The Central African Republic (CAR) is in the grip of a chronic medical emergency. Four mortality studies conducted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the past 18 months reveal crude mortality rates in some regions are at three times the emergency threshold level, which is considered a humanitarian crisis. Report - 13 Dec 2011

South Sudan

MSF scales up emergency response

The registered number of refugees gathering at the tiny village of Doro, as of 7th December, was 21,500 and increasing daily. Anywhere from 500 to 1,000 newcomers are registering every day.
The walk from their homelands in Blue Nile State, Sudan (north), took anywhere from one week to one month. Although the work to set up a properly organised refugee camp is under way, no family groups arriving at the gathering point at Doro have yet been allocated a plot. So the reality for most is still to find a small tree or bush under which to spread the belongings they were able to carry. Project Update - 12 Dec 2011

Afghanistan

MSF treats victims of bomb blast in central Kunduz

Following a bomb blast in the capital of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan on 10 December, MSF treated fourteen patients in the organization’s surgical hospital. Project Update - 12 Dec 2011

Newly arrived refugee children sit outside a makeshift shelter, near Dagahaley refugee camp, Dadaab, Kenya.

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Sixty years on, governments still failing refugees

This week, world leaders will gather in Geneva to commemorate 60 years of the UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Yet it is an anniversary the world’s 15.1 million refugees have little reason to celebrate. Today, states are increasingly shutting their borders and restricting the assistance they give to refugees and people seeking asylum. Project Update - 8 Dec 2011

HIV/AIDS

Response to President Obama's HIV/AIDS speech: 'Now it is time for all governments to step up'

Response by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to President Obama’s December 1 speech on World AIDS Day, during which he committed to reach two million more people with US-funded HIV treatment by the end of 2013, bringing the total number of people on treatment under US funding to nearly 6 million: Statement - 1 Dec 2011

Access to Healthcare

The thinnest of lifelines: An interview with Dr. Unni Karunakara on MSF's response to the funding crisis at the Global Fund

In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to support treatment programmes because of a catastrophic drop in donor funding. Voices from the Field - 1 Dec 2011

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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MSF's response in Mindanao Island following the typhoon