MSF releases report one year after the crisis started in Central African Republic. Report - 28 Mar 2014

India

Access to kala azar treatment in public healthcare system needs to be scaled up

MSF successfully tackles kala azar in Bihar state, India Project Update - 28 Mar 2014

Slideshow: Giving birth in Central African Republic - Sonia's story

In pictures: Giving birth in Central African Republic - Sonia's story. Voices from the Field - 27 Mar 2014

Afghanistan

MSF treats 17 wounded after Kunduz bomb blast

MSF received 23 patients at its trauma centre following a bomb blast in Kunduz city yesterday. Project Update - 26 Mar 2014

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola epidemic in Guinea

Interview with MSF doctor and footages from Ebola response in Uganda in 2007 Voices from the Field - 26 Mar 2014

Las familias de presos requieren, por lo general, atención psicológica. Mujeres, madres o hijos acusan todos la ausencia del familiar preso. En el caso de Adel, que se puso en huelga de hambre, agravó la condición de la familia.
Prisoners’ families usually need psychological attention. Women, mothers, fathers, children, they are all affected by the absence of the prisoner. Adel’s case, who went into hunger strike, worsened the condition of his family.

Palestine

Growing up quickly in a West Bank refugee camp

A six-year-old growing up on the West Bank is helped by an MSF psychologist Project Update - 26 Mar 2014

Thierry Petry, MSF anaesthetist *** Local Caption *** Hangu district belongs to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province and borders the tribal areas where high levels of violence and insecurity regularly lead to massive displacements of populations: sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni communities, clashes between armed opposition groups and security forces, presence of Taleban and other groups linked to Al Qaeda. In May 2010, MSF has opened a program in Hangu district hospital to provide emergency medical and surgical care 24/7. Since 2011, MSF team also supports the hospital maternity to assist Ministry of Health staff for complicated deliveries.<br>

Le district d'Ahngu se trouve dans la province du Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) et avoisine les zones tribales pakistanaises où le haut niveau d'insécurité et de violence provoquent régulièrement des déplacements massifs de populations : violences sectaires entre les communautés chiites et sunnites, affrontements entre les forces de sécurités et les groupes d'opposition armés, présence de Talibans et de groupes liés à Al Qaeda. En mai 2010, MSF a ouvert un programme au sein de l'hôpital de district d'Hangu pour fournir des soins médicaux et chirurgicaux d'urgence 24h/24 et 7j/7. Depuis 2011, l'équipe MSF soutient également la maternité de l'hôpital et appuie le personnel du Ministère de la santé pour la prise en charge des accouchements compliqués.

Pakistan

Reliability and accuracy of the South African Triage Scale when used by nurses in the emergency department of Timergara Hospital, Pakistan

Reliability of the South African Triage Scale when used by nurses in the emergency department of Timergara Hospital, Pakistan. Journal article - 26 Mar 2014

MSF nurse, Dorothy Wanjiru, treats Sajen Mading, a severely dehydrated 7 month old baby girl.

The baby arrived in Nadapal, on the Kenyan border with South Sudan, with her mother, her father and her six siblings. The family, originally from Bor, walked for 11 days to reach Nadapal.

Sajen’s mother also received treatment from MSF’s medical team.

Ethiopia

MSF races against time to provide assistance to South Sudanese refugees

MSF is providing assistance to South Sudanese refugees arriving in Ethiopia fleeing violence and persecution in their country. Project Update - 26 Mar 2014

Kaluamba, isolation unit for suspected cases. An MSF team of nine Ebola specialists from the capitals Kinshasa, DRC, and Brussels, Belgium, is currently working in Western Kasai. Logisticians are building an isolation ward in the village of Kampungu, and putting in place all protection measures. The medical team is also providing care to all people suspected of having the disease.

Guinea

MSF reinforces teams to help control spread of Ebola epidemic

MSF continues to reinforce its teams in Guéckédou and Macenta, where the Ebola virus has spread. Project Update - 25 Mar 2014

PK5 is an area where traditionally Muslims and Christians live together. At the beginning of January, 30% of our patients were Muslim, but this has now decreased to only a few as they have fled or fear to go outside. Beginning of February, MSF start a mobile clinic to the large central mosque in Bangui (PK5 neighborhood), where about 2,000 displaced Muslims are living in fear and not daring to get to our clinic. MSF provides daily water supply on this site (20m3 per day) + PK 12 camps : MSF is carrying out mobile clinics in the PK12 camp, where there are approximately 1,500 displaced people.

Central African Republic

MSF treats 38 people wounded in renewed attacks in Bangui

MSF teams treated 38 wounded after renewed attacks around the PK5 and PK12 neighbourhoods in Bangui Project Update - 25 Mar 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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Central African Republic: A year of continuing violence against civilians