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Sierra Leone

Adama - a mother saved against all odds

This is the first day of her new life. Voices from the Field - 29 Jan 2015
 
MSF Midwife Ruth Kauffman with Kumba at the Kailahun Ebola Treatment centre in Sierra Leone, October 2014. Kumba was fighting infection with the Ebola virus and at  seven months pregnant it was feared she would not survive. Midwife Ruth Kauffman worked to provide care that supported Kumba through the critical period of delivery. The feotus was still born, having died due to the effects of the virus however Kumba made a full recovery.
Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: "This has been the hardest but also the best thing that I have done"

“In all of my years with MSF, this has been the hardest but also the best thing that I have done.” Voices from the Field - 29 Jan 2015
 
Opening of the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kissy, Freetown.
Sierra Leone

MSF opens maternity unit for pregnant women with Ebola

Will enable medical teams to provide specialised care for pregnant women. Press Release - 29 Jan 2015
 
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Malawi

Daughter of the floods – a new life amidst chaos

Berita didn't run when the floods hit. She was eight months pregnant, and there was nowhere to go. Voices from the Field - 29 Jan 2015
 
Australian epidemiologist Jenn Duncombe entering data at the MSF Ebola Management Centre in Kailahun, Sierra Leone.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

"The most unlikely people survived" – An Australian epidemiologist recounts her time in Sierra Leone

Jenn Duncombe returned from Ebola on Christmas Day and is now thinking about her time in West Africa. Voices from the Field - 29 Jan 2015
 
On  20 January  2015,  the  hospital  managed  by MSF in Frandala village, South Kordofan  region in the Nuba Mountains, has been directly targeted during a bombing lead by Sudanese Air Force (SAF). This is one of the indiscriminate bombing  occurring  regularly in South Kordofan in the war between Khartoum Authorities  and  the  rebels  groups  in  the Nuba Mountains. 

The Frandala hospital  was  previously  bombed  on 16 June,  2014.  That attack took place despite Sudanese government’s knowledge of the MSF presence.
Sudan

Brussels-based operational centre of MSF stops emergency medical aid following government’s systematic denial of access

Can no longer reach communities in the greatest need, and therefore has been forced to close its activities in the country. Press Release - 29 Jan 2015
 

Their precarious living conditions are subject to harsh climate extremes, be it in winter with temperatures ranging from freezing cold in winter to scorching hot in summer.
Lebanon

Syrian refugees in Lebanon: "This crisis cannot be forgotten”

A brutal stretch of winter has passed, but Syrian refugees in Lebanon are still struggling amidst the deplorable living conditions they’ve endured for years now Project Update - 27 Jan 2015
 
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Access to medicines

MSF responds to Pfizer announcement of pneumococcal vaccine price reduction

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) last week called on GSK and Pfizer to reduce the price of their pneumococcal vaccines by half, to US$5 per child (inclusive of all three doses) for children in developing countries. The price reduction announced by Pfizer would still keep the price of the vaccine close to $10 per child (for all three doses), which is unaffordable for developing countries in the long term. Statement - 27 Jan 2015
 
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Palestine

Occupied Minds: Looking for hope

Randa is 24 years old and lives in an area called Mfaqarain Massafer Yatta, South of Hebron. Mfaqara is one of the villages threatened to be demolished because it is considered a military zone by the Israeli army. Voices from the Field - 27 Jan 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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