Anne Kluijtmans, an MSF nurse from Holland, was on holiday in Nepal when the earthquake struck on Saturday 25 April. She quickly joined the MSF teams who had arrived in the country to respond. Project Update - 5 May 2015

Yemen

ICRC and MSF alarmed by attacks on country’s lifelines

The disruption of key logistic infrastructure, including airports, sea ports, bridges and roads, is creating a catastrophic humanitarian situation. Press Release - 4 May 2015

Syria

Main hospital in Aleppo stops activities after being targeted

Al Sakhour hospital provided life-saving operations to around 400,000 people Press Release - 4 May 2015

MSF and MOAS rescue team to assist people in distress, 369 person have been found on a 12 meters wooden boat in the Mediterranean sea.

Will Turner (Emergency Coordinator) and MOAS rescue team on board of the RHIB.

As part of the rescue operation, the team will provide people first with life jackets to prevent drowning and then operate transfer onto the MY Phoenix.

During transfer, the Rhib can take between 10 to 20 people on board. The team have to do many rides before taking everybody safe on board of the MY Phoenix.

Mediterranean migration

MSF and MOAS rescue 369 people on first outing

This weekend more than 6,000 people were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea while making the treacherous crossing from Libya to Europe - 369 of those were rescued by the MY Phoenix, a search and rescue vessel run in partnership by MSF and MOAS. Press Release - 4 May 2015

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is urging European Member States to facilitate the immediate disembarkation of 629 people rescued over the weekend in Mediterranean and now onboard Aquarius, a dedicated search and rescue vessel run by SOS MEDITERRANEE in partnership with MSF. Aquarius remains in international waters off Malta and Italy, the countries with the closest ports of safety but which continue to refuse permission to dock.

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A 3 person MSF team began running mobile clinics by helicopter to remote villages in the mountains to the north of Kathmandu. Many villages have been completely or partially destroyed, and people are living under makeshift shelters. The earthquake and subsequent avalanches have cut off access to many villages so people are stuck with no way out.

Nepal

MSF doctor describes the challenge of getting aid to hardest hit areas

Interview with one of the first MSF doctors to be deployed to Nepal following last week's earthquake. Voices from the Field - 1 May 2015

Yemen

Crisis update – 27 April

Over 1,266 war wounded have been treated. Assistance needs to be scaled up dramatically. Crisis Update - 30 Apr 2015

Aminata is the mother of five children, and she is waiting for the sixth one. Her husband died in January in the Prince of Wales Ebola Management Center.

Fighting Ebola in the slums of Freetown

The massive Ebola management centres run by Médecins Sans Frontières at the peak of the outbreak are no longer full of patients, but MSF’s teams are still busy, making sure that all traces of Ebola are stamped out within local communities. Voices from the Field - 29 Apr 2015

Aissatou was dischargd by the Prince of Wales school with her 14 years old daughter. Her husband and 4 other children died because of Ebola. Today she is leaving in the house of her mother.

Promoting health at the heart of the communities

Helping high risk communities beat Ebola can be high risk work Voices from the Field - 29 Apr 2015

South Sudan

Nomads of war: A headmaster and his family living under a tree

Since the beginning of April , Simon Akoch, his wife and their six children have been sleeping under a tree in Noon, 25 minutes away from the Nile river by foot. Voices from the Field - 29 Apr 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.

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“Some villages are 80-100 percent destroyed. It was beyond my expectations.”