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Yemen

MSF receiving large numbers of patients in Aden, as security situation in Yemen deteriorates

Scores of people have been wounded in fighting in Yemen over recent days, with many treated at the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in the southern city of Aden. Crisis Update - 26 Mar 2015
 
Besieged, bombed, attacked, displaced, the Syrian population is devastated by four years of war. Basic services - access to health care, water, electricity, food Ethnic foods are no longer available in most of the country's governorates. In IDP camps in Bab Al Hawa and Atme, living conditions are more than precarious.
Syria

Providing medical care in Anadan, a city located between three frontlines

A doctor from Anadan (Aleppo area) describes the different hospitals where he was and is working. Voices from the Field - 25 Mar 2015
 
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Syria

“We created a new medical network in the region because the health care system was destroyed”

The medical coordinator of the Hama Health Directorate describes the health system that has been set up in Hama area, in the rebel held zone and how teams are working in a medical post next to the frontline, in a partly destroyed hospital and in primary health care centres. Voices from the Field - 25 Mar 2015
 
Viktor (36) has been in jail for more than 2 years : The first time I got the treatment, I stopped because I was sick all the time, I had fever. Now I take it but I stop when the side effects are too heavy. Most of the time, after one week, I have fever and insomnia, and I start hallucinating. But I have a long sentence, so I have a lot of time to take my treatment and get better.
Tuberculosis

MSF urges EU Health Commissioner and EU Health Ministers not to skip critical regional Ministerial conference on TB next week

Urges leadership in all European countries to commit to sending high-level political representation to first-ever Eastern Partnership Ministerial Conference on Tuberculosis and Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Riga, Latvia. Press Release - 24 Mar 2015
 
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South Sudan

Innocent victims of the civil war

Caches of unexploded ordnance left behind by armed groups are still claiming innocent victims like 14 year old Kume. Voices from the Field - 24 Mar 2015
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Crisis update - 23 March 2015

Crisis Update - 24 Mar 2015
 
On arrival at the hospital, Hawsak was admitted immediately. She was suffering from severe acute malnutrition with complications. Meeting the little girl in the hospital’s stabilisation centre, four days after her admission, she still looked tired, but her eyes were slowly starting to sparkle with life. Ibrahim Mohammed, the MSF nurse at the stabilisation centre confirmed to us that Hawsak was then in a much better condition than when she was first admitted.
Ethiopia

Treating children against the ‘evil eye’ of malnutrition in the pastoralist community of Fiq

Local beliefs regarding the causes of malnutrition pose serious challenges to health organisations like MSF attempting to address the disease from a medical perspective Voices from the Field - 24 Mar 2015
 
5-year-old Umeda has MDR-TB. Here she holds up her star chart. She gets a sticker every time she takes her medicine properly. Treating young children with MDR-TB can be very difficult and incentives like these are used to help them take the drugs they need during their treatment.
Tuberculosis

Ready, set, slow down: New and promising DR-TB drugs are grabbing headlines but not reaching patients

Fewer than 1,000 people worldwide have been able to access the two new TB drugs – just a fraction of those who desperately need them. Project Update - 23 Mar 2015
 
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Tuberculosis

Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: Speeding up research efforts

Ignored for the past fifty years, the needs of patients suffering from tuberculosis are finally being addressed... especially for patients with a multi-drug resistant form of the disease, who can now hope to have access to effective treatments within the next few years. Project Update - 23 Mar 2015
 
A Doctors Without Borders (MSF), health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola in the MSF treatment center on October 5, 2014 in Paynesville, Liberia. The girl and her mother, showing symptoms of the deadly disease, were awaiting test results for the virus. The Ebola epidemic has killed more than 3,400 people in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola: Pushed to the limit and beyond

MSF releases a critical analysis of the global Ebola response one year into the deadliest outbreak in history. Report - 23 Mar 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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