Western Equatoria has the highest maternal mortality (2,327 deaths per 100.000 live births) in South Sudan, which in turn has one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world (2,054 deaths/ 100,000 live births). Photo Story - 20 Jan 2015

MSF conducts a mobile clinic at Sintemaw IDP camp, Rakhine state, Myanmar. . C Aye Pyae Sone / MSF

MSF restarts basic medical activities in parts of Myanmar’s Rakhine State after nine-month absence

Successfully restarted primary health care services and emergency referrals for many living in Rakhine state, though significant needs remain unmet. Press Release - 20 Jan 2015

In New York, on Word Pneumonia Day 2015 (Nov 12), MSF volunteers attempted to deliver more than $17 million of fake cash - the equivalent of one day of profits from the pneumonia vaccines for Pfizer globally - to Pfizer's CEO Ian Read. The same day, MSF launched a global petition to ask Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce the price of the pneumococcal vaccine to $5 dollars per child (for all three doses) in developing countries. Credit: Edwin Torres.

Access to medicines

MSF calls on GSK and Pfizer to slash pneumo vaccine price to $5 per child for poor countries ahead of donor meeting

MSF calls on drug companies to slash price of pneumococcal vaccine to US$5/child Press Release - 20 Jan 2015

Senana Kazembe lost her last born to floods on 7 January, 2015 while running to M’bawa primary school to seek refuge.
“I have never seen this throughout my stay here. We have had floods but not of this magnitude,” recounts Kazembe.

Malawi

Thousands stranded with little to no food

Interview with deputy field coordinator Julien Lefèvre about his recent helicopter reconnaissance of the area. Voices from the Field - 19 Jan 2015

South Sudan

Tackling a deadly outbreak of tropical disease

Casey O’Connor oversees MSF’s activities in Lankien and reflects on a tough year. Voices from the Field - 16 Jan 2015

Malawi

Thousands of flood victims unable to receive aid

Up to twenty thousand people in the southern tip of Malawi remain cut off from the rest of the country without food, health care and ways to prevent possible outbreaks. Crisis Update - 16 Jan 2015

Suleiman fled Sinjar with his family in August, leaving behind his belongings and part of his identity. "I am living in this mosque which is under construction with 70 other people. It is freezing cold and extremely humid."

Iraq

Displaced by Conflict in Iraq: “How Can You Live in Such a Place?”

Refugees stuck living outside camps, in unfinished buildings, informal settlements and schools, have to face a harsh winter. Voices from the Field - 15 Jan 2015

Central African Republic

Healing broken souls and bodies

Clinical psychologist Hélène Thomas speaks about her experience treating victims of sexual violence in the Central African Republic. Voices from the Field - 15 Jan 2015

South Sudan

Improving maternal outcomes with community outreach (part 2)

Part 2: Spreading health messages far and wide - how community outreach saves lives Voices from the Field - 14 Jan 2015

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola crisis update - 13th January 2015

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has claimed more than 8,200 lives since it was officially declared. Crisis Update - 13 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.

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Maternal and Child Health in Yambio, South Sudan