Bombing intensity makes population and MSF teams on the field moves extremely dangerous Voices from the Field - 14 Jul 2014

Sierra Leone

Race against time to control the Ebola outbreak

MSF teams race to control the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone Project Update - 11 Jul 2014

*** Local Caption *** The outreach team visits the schools of Korogocho. On the east part of Mathare slums, this area is facing a major waste dump of East Nairobi. The inhabitants are leaving in dramatically bad social and sanitary conditions. On this April 15th, Mohamed Juma and John Abang’a, community mobilizers with MSF, have an appointment with more than half of the teachers of this 800 student’s school. During two hours, after having introduced MSF, its mission and history, they will develop a participative animation session on the issue of sexual violence. They will bring the teachers to express what they know about this issue in their community. They will lead them to take conscious of their key role, as community leaders and on the front line with the children, to identify signs of potential victims’ behavior. They help putting words on the issue, express personal experience… At the end of the session they distributed small cards and posters with the emergency numbers to be contacted 24 hours a day to report an aggression, making sure they understand that every hour counts.

Kenya

Recovering from sexual violence

MSF is treating victims of sexual violence in Kenya Project Update - 9 Jul 2014

Two days after testing positive for Ebola, Finda Marie Kamano dies. Fatou, her older sister is overwhelmed. She was the one who had called MSF to come and get Finda. Some members of the community accuse her of causing her sister’s death. They say that if she had stayed home, Finda would still be alive. There is a serious misconception the work MSF is doing; people see their family members go into the isolation ward and then come out no longer alive. Numerous false rumors circulate within the communities. People even talk about organ trafficking.

Guinea

“For some, Ebola is akin to magic”

MSF doctors explain the nature of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa Voices from the Field - 9 Jul 2014

MSF intensive Therapeutic feeding center. Children under 5 account for around 90% of impatients.

Ethiopia

Critical conditions for South Sudanese refugees in Gambella

Critical conditions for South Sudanese refugees in Gambella, Ethiopia Project Update - 8 Jul 2014

Mother & Child at MSF Outpatient consultation in Berberati Regional University Hospital

Central African Republic

Health chaos in Central African Republic

Since December 2013, CAR has been torn apart by a conflict with increasingly religious overtones. Project Update - 7 Jul 2014

Following a phone call, an MSF team goes to the home of Finda Marie Kamano, age 33. She reported extreme weakness, vomiting, and dysentery. These symptoms, along with fever and nosebleeds, are typical of those caused by the Ebola virus. Wearing a protective suit, a doctor checks Finda, who complains of severe stomach pain.

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

MSF activities in Ebola outbreak

A summary of the situation in west Africa, in the midst of an Ebola outbreak Project Update - 7 Jul 2014

The landscape in Maban, South sudan is very rough, hot, barren and unforgiving. Few people normally live here but now the area contains tens of thousands refugees.

War and conflict

Where is everyone?

A report examining the limitations and deficiencies of the international aid response to crisis. Report - 6 Jul 2014

Cambodia

Cambodia wasn’t initially on Helen Tindall’s radar ...

MSF's nurse manager describes the challenges in tackling TB Voices from the Field - 4 Jul 2014

MSF staff with patients at MSF health post in Mpoko IDP camp at Bangui International Airport

Central African Republic

Interview with MSF's head of mission, Stefano Argenziano

Central African Republic: Interview with MSF's head of mission, Stefano Argenziano Voices from the Field - 4 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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