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Gitarama. One of more than 7.000 mostly Hutu inmates at the overcrowded Gitarama prison stares out from behind the bars. Some 120 inmates were transferred by the UN in an effort to try to relieve overcrowding.
MSF Speaking Out

The Violence of the New Rwandan Regime 1994-1995

The ‘Violence of the New Rwandan Regime’ case study describes the difficulties and dilemmas faced by Médecins Sans Frontières teams in 1994 and 1995 when confronted with the abuses and crimes of the new regime who had put an end to the Genocide of Tutsis and taken over Rwanda in July 1994. Speaking Out Case Studies - 31 Mar 2014
 
Street scene in Carnot. *** Local Caption *** Since February 1st, date of the anti-Balakas takeover of the city, a thousand people (mostly Peuls/Fulani in transit on their way to Cameroon) are trapped in the city ,victims of attacks and violences.
Central African Republic

"Carnot has not been calm since then"

Dramane Kone, MSF project manager, describes the situation in Carnot, CAR. Voices from the Field - 31 Mar 2014
 
The Ebola epidemic confirmed by the Ministry of Health on March 22 is the first to affect Guinea. The priority of the teams on site is to identify patients with Ebola symptoms and isolate them, while providing high-quality care. In cooperation with the Ministry of Health, MSF created an isolation facility in Guéckédou and is setting up another in Macenta. Both towns are in the Forestière region of southern Guinea. Mobile teams are also evaluating the situation in Kissidougou and Nzérékoré and are monitoring bordering countries closely, particularly Sierra Leone and Liberia, where suspected cases have been reported.
Guinea

Mobilisation against an unprecedented Ebola epidemic

Eight ebola cases have been confirmed in the capital Conakry, MSF now facing an unprecedented epidemic. Press Release - 31 Mar 2014
 
MSF is the only medical organization working in the M'Poko camp (Bangui airport area), where around 100,000 IDPs - who fled early december's violences and clashes in the capital - live in extremely precarious conditions. Every day, our teams conduct around 500 consultations, a hundred dressings and 7 deliveries.
Central African Republic

Central African Republic: A year of continuing violence against civilians

MSF releases report one year after the crisis started in Central African Republic. Report - 28 Mar 2014
 
Since July 2007, MSF has been running a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Vaishali district, in the centre of the Indian state of Bihar. In the four years, about 8,000 patients have been treated at the Sadar Hospital, and in five MSF-supported health centres. The initial cure rate of kala azar cases is at 98 per cent. Kala azar is a disease endemic to Bihar. Transmitted by the sand fly, the disease mainly affects the spleen and, if left untreated, is fatal for virtually all patients.
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
 
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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
 
MSF medics treat an IPD patient at Kunduz Trauma Centre in Kunduz, Northern Afghanistan.
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
 
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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
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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