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During an Ebola outbreak, funeral rituals are the most important contamination vectors. Here, body bags disinfected with chlorine to prevent further contamination are incinerated in a crematorium by MSF staff.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Thousands have died from Ebola. Why is the world doing so little?

Opinion - 15 Sep 2014
 
A sprayer takes a break of disinfecting houses in Konosu Sainin.
Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

A concrete response to the Ebola outbreak cannot wait

"A concrete response cannot wait": An op-ed by Joanne Liu, MSF International President Opinion - 15 Sep 2014
 
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More about Ebola

Read more about Ebola Project Update - 15 Sep 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Explore an Ebola Care Centre

Explore our interactive guide to an Ebola care centre. Project Update - 15 Sep 2014
 
Tanneh, and Agnes, members of the MSF Psychosocial Team, bring packages of biscuits and juice brought by family members to patients in the Ebola Case Management Center run by MSF in Monrovia. Their role is to counsel and encourage patients, to give them a reason to live and have hope. Both are local Liberians who are passionate about helping their 'brothers' and 'sisters'.
Liberia

'Somebody had to do it' - Turning people away from an overwhelmed Ebola treatment centre

"While he knew we couldn’t save her life, at least we could save the rest of his family from her" Voices from the Field - 12 Sep 2014
 
In South Sudan, 40,000 people are crowded into a flooded United Nations Protection of Civilians compound in Bentiu, Unity State. Living conditions are horrific but it is the only refuge they have from widespread armed violence outside. (August 2014)
South Sudan

Dire conditions and growing tensions in Bentiu, South Sudan

It is hard to understand how the people here have managed to continue living, breathing and surviving in this sewage-infested swamp over these last difficult months Voices from the Field - 11 Sep 2014
 
August 2012, in the village of Karangasso, district of Koutiala, Mali. For the first time, MSF is rolling out a large-scale in-situ strategy for the preventive treatment of malaria, called seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC), in a pilot projects in Mali.  Antimalarial treatments have been administered to some 165,000 children aged between 3 months and 5 years old. The initial results are highly encouraging, with a 65% drop in the number of malaria cases. Furthermore, the number of malaria-associated hospitalisations plummeted from 228 to 70 per week.
Chad

Reducing child mortality with SMC meds in Chad

MSF is combining anti-malaria meds with other vaccinations to fight child mortality Press Release - 10 Sep 2014
 
The emergency room of the university hospital Escuela, the main public hospital in Honduras, is always extremely busy, seeing some 260 patients per day. In 2013, MSF helped reorganise services and is working on improving emergency management to better deal with large influxes of patients and to reduce chances of death or permanent disability arising from inadequate trauma care.
Honduras

MSF Projects in Tegucigalpa

MSF runs a comprehensive programme offering treatment and follow-up to victims of violence. Photo Story - 10 Sep 2014
 
One of the MSF staff members at the Ebola management Centre in Monrovia. At the moment, MSF deployed a team of 350 people in Liberia only. A number which should increase in the days / weeks to come.
Liberia

'All Not Lost Yet' - MSF Says Ebola Treatment Center Bearable

Life inside an Ebola isolation center for patients who spend their time there is a dreaded one In the Media - 10 Sep 2014
 
Samrajam Yellamali, a HIV / XDRTB patient seen at the MSF clinic during her regular check up.
Tuberculosis

HIV, multidrug-resistant TB and depressive symptoms: when three conditions collide

Management of MDR-TB patients co-infected with HIV is highly challenging. A mental health assessment before treatment initiation may assist in early diagnosis and better management of psychiatric illnesses. Journal article - 9 Sep 2014
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)

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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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