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An Italian homeless at the dorm in via Aldini, Quarto Oggiaro area.
Italy

MSF provides care to homeless people in Milan

Project Update - 8 Mar 2013
 
An MSF doctor is doing a dressing on a severely burnt boy in an advanced medical post.*** Local Caption *** MSF is supporting advanced medical posts with training and donations of drugs and medical material
Syria

Syria two years on: the failure of international aid so far

After two years of extremely violent conflict, the humanitarian situation in Syria is now catastrophic and the aid provided falls drastically short of what is needed. MSF calls on the parties involved in the conflict to negotiate an agreement on humanitarian aid, to facilitate its supply around the country via neighbouring countries or across front lines. Report - 7 Mar 2013
 
An MSF vehicle drives during a rain storm back to the town of Kitchanga in North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, from a health clinic in the nearby village of Muheto, October 15, 2009.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands have fled as violence continues in Kitchanga

Project Update - 7 Mar 2013
 
A father and his daughter wait in MSF's mobile clinic to see a doctor in Northern Syria, on Tuesday, February 5, 2013. This is the fourth mobile clinic session MSF has conducted in the same village, according to Dr. Tharcis Zinet, as the need from its people for basic healthcare is widespread. The village experienced heavy fighting until five months ago.
Syria

My enemy's doctor is my enemy

What do the Syrian National Coalition, a foreign jihadi group, a Gulf State and the Iranian and American governments all have in common? Statement - 7 Mar 2013
 
An MSF doctor is doing a dressing on a severely burnt boy in an advanced medical post.*** Local Caption *** MSF is supporting advanced medical posts with training and donations of drugs and medical material
Syria

Humanitarian assistance in deadlock

After two years of extremely violent conflict, the humanitarian situation in Syria is now catastrophic and the aid provided falls drastically short of what is needed. MSF calls on the parties involved in the conflict to negotiate an agreement on humanitarian aid, to facilitate its supply around the country via neighbouring countries or across front lines. Press Release - 7 Mar 2013
 
A Ministry of Health nurse inspects an x-ray scan of the lungs of one patient who is supported by MSF, at the Artyomovsk TB dispensary outside Donetsk. 

In the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, MSF provides treatment and support to over 100 inmates and ex-inmates suffering from multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB. MSF’s support includes diagnosis and testing, provision of medical treatment, and psychological support to help MDR-TB patients continue taking their medication. MSF has also rehabilitated lab facilities and introduced infection control measures to prevent transmission of the disease within the prison walls. MSF also provides ARV treatment to patients that are co-infected with HIV.
Ukraine

Curbing the MDR-TB epidemic in prisons

Project Update - 5 Mar 2013
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF reinforces team in Kitchanga after heavy fighting results in many dead and wounded

MSF has flown in additional medical staff to the town of Kitchanga in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo after heavy fighting in the last few days between armed groups resulted in deaths and mass casualties. Press Release - 1 Mar 2013
 
Hiloweyn camp is the fourth camp in the Liben region opened mid 2011. MSF started working in Hiloweyn refugee camp August 2011 and provides primary health care, psycho social care, TB care and runs a nutritional program, and an out patient department (OPD). The camp now counts 25000 (twenty-five thousand) refugees.
Somalia

Humanitarian aid must not be co-opted into stabilisation campaign

Integrating aid into UN, AU political and military strategy will threaten humanitarian efforts Project Update - 28 Feb 2013
 
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Gallery: MSF Chagas project in Aiquile, Bolivia

Gallery: MSF Chagas project in Aiquile, Bolivia Photo Story - 27 Feb 2013
 
In response to a malaria outbreak, MSF launched a 4-month emergency project in Kinkondja, a remote area in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During the
four month intervention, a medical team treated 10,000 patients every month. In total, almost 40,000 men, women and children were treated for malaria.
 
â??When we arrived, one in ten of our patients required immediate hospitalisation. In the last weeks of our intervention, we had reduced this to one in a hundred.â? said Melanie Silbermann, MSFâ??s medical co-ordinator in Lubumbashi.
 
MSFâ??s intervention in Kinkondja was just one emergency project among the many that MSF is currently running throughout the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the disease is endemic. Malaria remains the leading cause of death for children under five. In the Katanga province, and elsewhere in the Congo, the absence of other healthcare providers and overstretched health systems leave people vulnerable to contracting malaria.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Lives at risk as fighting continues in Katanga province

Fighting between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused thousands of people to flee their homes and hundreds to seek refuge at the MSF hospital in Shamwana. Statement - 20 Feb 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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