“Violence has no religion” attests a Palestinian member of the MSF team in Gaza Voices from the Field - 31 Jul 2014

24th of July of 2014. Israeli military offensive "Protective Edge". Families displaced by the bombings took refuge in the Shifa hospital compound, in Gaza City, where MSF is working (OT, burn unit, ICU, ER and ressucitation room).

24/07/2014. Offensive militaire israélienne "Bordure protectrice". Familles déplacées par les bombardements et réfugiées dans l'enceinte de l'hôpital Shifa, Gaza ville, où MSF travaille (bloc opératoire, service des brûlés, soins intensifs, urgences et salle de réanimation).

Palestine

“Here I feel safe” confides a Palestinian member of staff taking refuge in the MSF office

“Here I feel safe” confides a Palestinian member of staff taking refuge in the MSF office Voices from the Field - 31 Jul 2014

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Sasobas, Ebola survivor

Video: Sasobas, Ebola survivor Project Update - 30 Jul 2014

Emergency medical coordinator Sophie Sabatier, who runs the Gudele 2 cholera treatment centre, checks up on a cholera patient and his family.

Since the South Sudanese Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak in Juba, the countryÕs capital, on 15 May 2014, more than 1,306 patients have been treated for the disease, and 29 people have died as at 05 June 2014. MSF has set up a CTC in the district of Gudele 2, and two smaller CTCs in the two IDP camps in UN bases. There are several MSF Oral Rehydration points close to the affected areas of Juba, and support id provided to the MoH in the Juba Teaching Hospital.

South Sudan

Cholera claiming lives in Upper Nile State, South Sudan

Communities and displaced populations living in congested camps with poor hygiene and sanitation are at high risk of contracting cholera Project Update - 30 Jul 2014

Souweba Mamane takes part in the “mamans lumière” sessions in Doney.
The “mamans lumière” (mothers of light) are at the centre of a strategy to prevent acute malnutrition in the community itself, known as Homes of Nutritional Learning, Rehabilitation and Prevention (FARPN, in its French initials). In the programme, families take responsibility for improving the nutritional condition of children who are at risk of suffering acute malnutrition. To achieve this objective, positive changes in the community's behaviour are encouraged by the “mamans lumière” with regard to nutrition, hygiene and health practices.
In 2013, MSF put the FARPN strategy into operation in the districts of Madaoua and Bouza, Niger.

Niger

The mothers of light

A highly successful nutrition programme in Niger Project Update - 30 Jul 2014

An MSF doctor prepares the schedule treatment for HIV patients.

Since 2006, MSF runs an anti-retroviral treatment (ART) centre in the Khar area of Mumbai. The centre provides psychosocial and medical care to a limited cohort of HIV patients, with a special focus on patients that are co-infected with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. MSF also runs outreach activities in the community to complement the care offered to patients at the ART centre, and to provide capacity building to partner NGOs and health professionals. Operational research also constitutes an important part of the project activities.

HIV/AIDS

Second-line failure and first experience with third-line antiretroviral therapy in Mumbai, India

There are limited data on the failure of second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) and the use of third-line ART in people living with HIV in resource-limited settings. Since 2011, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) HIV/tuberculosis programme in Mumbai, India, has been providing third-line ART to patients in care. Journal article - 30 Jul 2014

HIV/AIDS

Clinical features and management of a severe paradoxical reaction associated with combined treatment of Buruli ulcer and HIV co-infection

In this case we present a severe paradoxical reaction occurring after commencing antibiotic treatment for BU combined with antiretroviral therapy for HIV, and describe its clinical features and management. This includes to our knowledge the first reported use of prednisolone in Africa to manage a severe paradoxical reaction related to BU treatment. Journal article - 30 Jul 2014

Palestine

MSF strongly condemns attack on Al Shifa hospital

Yesterday’s attack on Al Shifa hospital, where nearly 2,000 people are sheltering, demonstrates how civilians have nowhere safe to go Press Release - 29 Jul 2014

Syria

Car bombs in northern Syria target Eid shoppers

Two car bombs exploded in towns in northern Syria on 26 July Press Release - 28 Jul 2014

Democratic Republic of Congo

A team of MSF vaccinated 38,000 children against measles in Minova before continuing the campaign in Kalonge

The immunization campaign took place for about three weeks, from 27 June to 16 July in four health areas (Lumbishi, Numbi, Shanje and Tushunguti) in the hilly surroundings of the town of Minova, the so called Hauts Plateaux. Project Update - 25 Jul 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.

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“Violence has no religion”: testimony of a Palestinian member of the MSF team in Gaza