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Los equipos de Salud Mental de MSF en Hebrón y Jerusalén Este han detectado un aumento de menores con necesidades de atención psicológica. Hussein y Ziad conservan los brazaletes que les dieron como regalo los prisioneros cuando pasaron por la cárcel. Tienen 15 y 14 años. 
The MSF teams in Hebron and East Jerusalem have detected an increase of minors in need of psychological attention. Hussein and Ziad keep the bracelets that the inmates made for them while they were in prison. They are 15 and 14 years old.
Palestine

Occupied Minds - Children and home detention

Occupied Minds is a series of stories about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) patients affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, people receiving assistance from MSF mental health teams in Hebron and in East Jerusalem. Voices from the Field - 14 Nov 2013
 
Ahed Tamini is a 14-year-old Palestinian girl who lives in the village of Nabi Saleh, in the occupied Palestinian territories. She is in ninth grade. This is the sweet blond, blue-eyed girl who two years ago stood up to Israeli soldiers, shaking her fist at one of them after she learned they had arrested her brother. She is a passionate lover of football and an unconditional fan of Neymar Jr?—?she and her cousin Jana baked him a strawberry cake for his birthday.
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Occupied Minds

Occupied Minds is a series of stories about Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) patients affected by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, people receiving assistance from MSF mental health teams in Hebron, East Jerusalem and Gaza. The stories are collected by the MSF teams. Occupied Minds seeks to reflect the reality of daily life under occupation for MSF patients. www.msf-me.org
 
Las incursiones de soldados israelíes en casas palestinas se hacen por lo general por la noche de forma violenta. Youssef fue detenido tras una incursión en la casa de su padre. La familia quedó traumatizada. 
Incursions by Israeli soldiers are often carried out at night in a very violent way. Youssef was detained after an incursion in his father’s house. The family was left traumatized.
Palestine

Occupied Minds - Night incursions in Hebron

Project Update - 14 Nov 2013
 
Guiuan is municipality of 45,000 people. 87 people dead but the devastation is massive. 99% of Guiuan is flattened. Trees, houses, infrastructures, livelihood means such as rice fields, fishing boats were destroyed. Marie Jeanne Bertol, an orthopaedic surgeon, one of the three MSF staff who assessed the situation and needs in Guiuan, said “from the medical stand point, it doesn’t mean that if you have small number of lives lost the damage is less. As a doctor I don’t want the number of deaths to increase by neglecting the needs of the injured people, open wounds slowly becoming infected, upper respiratory tract infection cases especially in children. Right now there are no reported cases of diarrhea so the earlier we could get our team in the community, the higher chance we prevent more lives being wasted.”
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF reaches centre of storm path

Teams reach northern Cebu island, eastern Samar island, Panay Island, and western Leyte province Project Update - 13 Nov 2013
 
Survivors gathered at the airport, hoping for an evacuation. — at tacloban City, Leyte.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF medical activities start taking shape

137 staff now in Philippines, 232 tonnes of supplies arrived Project Update - 13 Nov 2013
 
Medical and logistical supplies are being loaded at Ostend airport, from where two cargo planes will take off tomorrow morning to support the relief effort in the Philippines. MSF is sending 329 tonnes of medical and relief items which will arrive in Cebu within the next few days in four cargo planes, which are leaving today and tomorrow – 2 from Dubai and 2 from Ostende. The humanitarian cargo includes medical kits for treating wounded, material for medical consultations, tetanus vaccines, water and sanitation equipment, and relief items such as tents and hygiene kits. An additional cargo is being prepared due to leave later this week from Bordeaux with an inflatable hospital and medical material.
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: MSF working to reach worst affected areas

“People have lost everything” Project Update - 12 Nov 2013
 
Natasha Reyes Filipino MedCo Emergency Coordinator speaks English and Filipino
Philippines

Typhoon Haiyan: Interview with MSF emergency coordinator

"This sort of disaster is unprecedented in the Philippines" Voices from the Field - 11 Nov 2013
 
Medical and logistical supplies are being loaded at MSF Supply's warehouse in Brussels, Belgium. The trucks will travel tonight to Ostende airport, from where two cargo planes will take off tomorrow morning to support the relief effort in the Philippines. MSF is sending 329 tonnes of medical and relief items which will arrive in Cebu within the next few days in four cargo planes, which are leaving today and tomorrow – 2 from Dubai and 2 from Ostende. The humanitarian cargo includes medical kits for treating wounded, material for medical consultations, tetanus vaccines, water and sanitation equipment, and relief items such as tents and hygiene kits. An additional cargo is being prepared due to leave later this week from Bordeaux with an inflatable hospital and medical material.
Philippines

MSF sends two cargo planes of medical and relief items while first teams arrive in Cebu

Update on Typhoon Haiyan response. Project Update - 10 Nov 2013
 
Sizakela Nhlabatsi, 30, MDR-TB patient: ‘In March 2013 I became sick. I coughed a lot and felt pain in my chest. I went to the MSF clinic to be tested and I was diagnosed with MDR-TB. In the beginning the side effects of the medications were hard. My bones hurt, I could not walk, I had to vomit, had cramps. In the second month I wanted to give up treatment, but with the support of MSF I have succeeded to go on. Now I feel better, I can walk again and do not have to vomit anymore. ’
‘Nobody was able to take care of me, I am the oldest of 4 children, my parents have died. I live about 5 km from the clinic and was too sick to come to the clinic for the treatment. That’s why MSF decided to put me in CANA house. I am worried about my brothers, they have to survive without me and they have no income.’ Swaziland, Cana House (MSF residence for patients on treatment) in Makanyane. October 2013.
Tuberculosis

Risk Factors Associated with Default from Multi- and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment, Uzbekistan: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis

Improved support should be provided to TB patients, especially those at risk of stopping treatment. Journal article - 6 Nov 2013
 
Nurse Abdi Somad Ahmed Moktar (38) places an IV with a malnourished child.
Somalia

A timeline of MSF in Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) first worked in Somalia in 1979 and was present in the country with few interruptions between 1991 and 2013. Project Update - 4 Nov 2013
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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