Some 200 families per day are being relocated to Ifo 3, a camp with little existing basic services, including water and sanitation. The relocation, which began on July 25 under the auspices of the UNHCR, has been carried out with little transparency or consultation. Statement - 27 Jul 2011

Measles

Hiding Behind Health

In 2010, MSF vaccinated 5.8 million people for measles and meningitis alone. The alleged actions of the CIA in the case of Pakistan cast a shadow over these legitimate and life-saving medical acts. Whenever medical activities are used as a tool of war, it hampers our ability to provide assistance—and patients will no longer dare to seek the healthcare they need. Project Update - 20 Jul 2011

Somalia

In Helmand, treating diseases before they become deadly

Gunshot wounds and bomb blasts are not the only life-threatening consequences of war in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. Diseases and conditions such as diarrhea and respiratory tract infections can go untreated and become deadly. In MSF’s new outpatient department in Boost Hospital, staff are able to focus on these cases and the challenges they bring. Project Update - 18 Jul 2011

Papua New Guinea

Returning to Bougainville's neglected south after a decade-long absence

MSF is currently the only international NGO based permanently in this remote southern region of Bougainville. The state of care for pregnant women will be one of the biggest priorities for MSF in Buin. In May, for example, approximately one in four pregnant women was classified as an emergency case. Project Update - 14 Jul 2011

South Sudan

As South Sudan enters independence, the long-standing humanitarian emergency continues

The heightened hostility between both sides and violent attacks by the North in contested border areas [Abyei, South Kordofan, and similar patterns of violence on the border between South Darfur and Western Bahr El Ghazal] is making media headlines In the lead-up to the South’s independence from the North. However, other violence has also claimed lives and displaced people this year, but has rarely made it into the news. Voices from the Field - 12 Jul 2011

HIV/AIDS

Gilead licence expands access, but several countries left out

Excluded countries should be ready to issue compulsory licences to access needed drugs Press Release - 12 Jul 2011

Charles Sako is 41 and lives with his partner and three-year old daughter in Kibera, a deprived area of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Charles is HIV positive and is being treated at an MSF clinic in Kibera. Six years ago, after he had started antiretroviral treatment, Charles documented his life in pictures in a project called ‘My Life with HIV’. Now, in 2011, Charles is a healthy and active individual, working as a receptionist in a health centre to support his family. His child, Gift Sandra, is HIV negative and Charles has plans to become a truck driver to further his dreams and ensure financial security for his family.

HIV/AIDS

Untangling the Web of Antiretroviral Price Reductions, 14th Edition

This report includes information on the evolution in price for each ARV over time, charting the difference between the original prices and the lowest prices available from generic producers for developing countries. Report - 11 Jul 2011

Pakistan

Despite increased support, limited access prevents the scope of MSF intervention in Kurram Agency, Pakistan

For several years now, the limitation of access to Kurram for our international staff, including medical specialists, is limiting our intervention. The support provided by MSF in Kurram could be extended, replicated to other hospitals and to other FATA agencies, if access restrictions to these areas were lessened. Project Update - 8 Jul 2011

Libya

'As war goes on, people's needs are growing'

“All kinds of people who have never worked in a hospital before are working in medical facilities and caring for others: trying to re-open medical structures or to help with nursing care. A dentist has been working in an emergency department, while an accountant has been sweeping floors. But how long can they hold on? They are constantly working, and they sometimes fall asleep the moment there are no emergency cases.” Voices from the Field - 5 Jul 2011

Democratic Republic of Congo

As cholera epidemic spreads in DRC, MSF opens emergency treatment centres along Congo river

The three major factors that promote the spread of cholera are all currently present in DRC: dense urban population; a lack of hygiene and little access to clean water; and the confirmed presence of the disease in several locations. In a country where the health system is faltering, this outbreak comes at a time when several other medical emergencies are already causing havoc, in particular a measles epidemic that is raging in several provinces. Project Update - 4 Jul 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 deeply concerned by the current relocation of refugees to Ifo 3 camp in Dadaab, Kenya