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Children playing in Harmanli camp. The biggest of Bulgaria’s emergency centres for refugees is in the town of Harmanli, about 30 kilometres away from the Turkish and Greek borders.

Over the past seven months, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have provided medical and psychological healthcare, distributed essential aid and made improvements to buildings and facilities in three reception centres for asylum seekers in Bulgaria. 

The centres were MSF worked, in Harmanli and in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, are currently home to more than 1,500 refugees, many of whom have fled war-torn Syria, making a long, often dangerous journey to Europe in search of safety and protection. 

MSF started working in Bulgaria last November, after finding appalling conditions that included lack of food, shelter, medical or psychological care. Despite the winter, people were sleeping in unheated tents, and up to fifty people were sharing one toilet. 

Now that the authorities have had the chance to expand their capacity and conditions have improved, MSF is handing over the provision of medical and psychological healthcare services to the Bulgarian government and to other humanitarian organisations.
Bulgaria

MSF projects for refugees in Bulgaria coming to a close

Over the past seven months, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have provided medical and mental healthcare, distributed essential aid and made improvements to buildings and facilities in three reception centres for asylum seekers in Bulgaria. Project Update - 5 Jun 2014
 
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Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Resurgence of Epidemic Ebola in West Africa

While the number of patients appeared to be in decline, new cases of Ebola have been reported in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The virus has already affected more than 300 people in West Africa. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is continuing its work supporting health authorities in the two countries, treating patients and putting measures in place to contain the epidemic. Project Update - 3 Jun 2014
 
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Central African Republic

Fresh attack on MSF in Ndélé

Following fresh attacks in Ndélé (CAR), MSF evacuated a number of staff members Press Release - 3 Jun 2014
 
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Cholera Treatment Centre

What is a Cholera Treatment Centre? Médecins Sans Frontières provides information about the key parts of a CTC, and what patients can expect in their treatment. ctc.msf.org
 
Miriam Kastzura, nurse, attends to a patient in the emergency room in Berberati.
Central African Republic

Berbérati, Central African Republic: “I had never seen anything like it before”

Interview with Miriam Kasztura, a nurse just returned from Berbérati, OCG's project in the southwest of CAR. Voices from the Field - 3 Jun 2014
 
Area reserved for the most serious patients at the Cholera Treatment Centre in Minova. Cholera is highly infectious so isolating patients is vital in order to prevent the disease from spreading.
Cholera

An interactive guide to an MSF cholera treatment centre

An interactive guide to an MSF cholera treatment centre Project Update - 3 Jun 2014
 
Khayelitsha, South Africa. Oct. 2003. 
MSF clinic. MSF doctor Eric Goemare preparing ARV drugs.
Currently MSF treats 650 people with antiretroviral drugs, the largest cohort on treatment in the public sector in South Africa. The use of generic antiretroviral drugs in our clinics has been critical for the success of our programs, since it has proven that antiretroviral drugs can be done in an affordable manner.
HIV/AIDS

Clinical Mentorship of Nurse Initiated Antiretroviral Therapy in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A Quality of Care Assessment

Clinical Mentorship of Nurse Initiated Antiretroviral Therapy in Khayelitsha, South Africa: A Quality of Care Assessment Journal article - 2 Jun 2014
 
The culture: Bacteria from the collected specimens is grown on specific media before testing their sensitivity to a panel of antibiotics.

MSF has launched for the first time an Antibiotic Resistance Study in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan. A laboratory has been set up in the Boost Hospital where MSF works to carry out the study. The study started in January 2013.
Global

Calling on Europe to support operational research in low-income and middle-income countries

Calling on Europe to support operational research in low-income and middle-income countries Journal article - 2 Jun 2014
 
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.
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A Fair Shot

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been campaigning for lower vaccine prices since 2014. In 2016 after years of efforts and public campaigning Pfizer and GSK finally announced that they were reducing the price of the vaccine to slightly more than 9 US dollars per child for humanitarian organisations like MSF. While this is definitely a step in the right direction, it means that millions of children are still left unvaccinated in countries where their parents or governments can’t afford the vaccine. afairshot.org
 
A nurse dispensing TB medication inside Colony 3 TB prison.
Ukraine

MSF provides urgently needed medical supplies to hospitals receiving wounded in eastern Ukraine

MSF provides urgently needed medical supplies to hospitals receiving wounded in eastern Ukraine Project Update - 30 May 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)

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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