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MSF boat carrying urgent medical aid and staff, arrived to Aden from Djibouti today.
Yemen

Crisis update

A summary for MSF activities in Yemen. Crisis Update - 18 May 2015
 
Thousands of people have been forced to flee their villages in the Shabunda area of South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), due to heavy clashes between the Congolese army (FARDC) and various armed groups. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the urgent needs of the displaced people in this isolated area by providing emergency medical/ncare as well as treatment for cholera patients
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF assists more than a hundred women who claimed being sexually abused

Bukavu, DRC – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in the region of Shabunda, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), have provided medical care for 127 women who reported being sexually abused after an attack by dozens of armed men in the town of Kikamba (South Kivu province). Press Release - 14 May 2015
 
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Mediterranean migration

MSF statement re: European Agenda on Migration

The EU urgently needs to prove it can make a difference in saving many lives at sea by offering meaningful alternatives to these boat journeys. Statement - 13 May 2015
 
Elysee was abandoned by everyone – friends, family – when she was diagnosed with HIV. She arrived very weak in MSF’s Kabinda hospital, in Kinshasa, where the most advanced cases of HIV are treated.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Three HIV patient stories

Elysee, Elizabeth, and Clémentine, on the struggle to live with HIV in the DRC Voices from the Field - 13 May 2015
 
Collapsed buildings in in Charikot, a village at the edge of the mountain, where people are still buried in the debris of the second earthquake.
Nepal

MSF teams witness destruction and despair of the second Nepal earthquake while assessing needs in remote areas

Team witnessed villages being destroyed by the earthquake and landslides. Dolakha district was the epicenter of yesterday’s 7.3 magnitude earthquake, the second one to strike Nepal in two weeks. Crisis Update - 13 May 2015
 
In recent days, 1,300 Nigerians were evacuated from Lake Chad (where they had taken refuge after fleeing the conflict in the northeast of the country). These departures are following major ongoing clashes on the islands of Lake Chad, Niger side. These thousands of refugees are the first returns on Borno State - northeast of Nigeria - more are expected in the coming days. MSF initiates emergency assistance for these people.
Nigeria

1200 Nigerian refugees flee fighting in Lake Chad and return to Nigeria

MSF provides assistance to Nigerian returnees fleeing Niger Crisis Update - 12 May 2015
 
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Nepal

Second earthquake near Kathmandhu

Crisis Update - 12 May 2015
 
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More about Meningitis

Meningococcal meningitis is a highly contagious bacterial form of meningitis – a serious inflammation of the meninges, the thin lining that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Project Update - 11 May 2015
 
A patient affected by meningitis is cared by an MSF doctor Clement Van Galen.
Niger

Meningitis in Niger: 100 people hospitalised in critical condition every day in Niamey

MSF steps up its activities to tackle the epidemic Voices from the Field - 11 May 2015
 
MSF supports the hospital in the town of Haradh . Al Mazraq Camp was hit by an airstrike on March 30th. At least 34 people wounded in the attack were brought by ambulance to the MSF-supported hospital in Haradh (in the photo). Twenty-nine people were dead on arrival, among them women and children.  Roughly 500 new families had arrived in the camp over the last two days, escaping bombings in the western area of Saada. Al Mazraq Camp was established in 2009, when thousands of people fled fighting between government troops and Houthi forces in Saada Governorate.
Yemen

First person account from Saada under bombardment

An MSF team spent last night in the city of Saada under intense bombing from the coalition led by Saudi Arabia. On Friday night the coalition gave an ultimatum to the population to leave the city and its surrounding area, as the whole province in the North of the country would become a military target. Voices from the Field - 9 May 2015
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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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