MSF is running a programme in Hebron that aims to alleviate the suffering of victims of violence, offering psychological and social support as well as medical care.
The web documentary Confronting Trauma: MSF’s Mental Health Project in Hebron gives an overview of the situation and explains how MSF responds to the needs of residents. Project Update - 1 Jun 2012

Reception centre is the first point of entry where refugees from Somalia arrive in Ethiopia, this is where people get registered by the Ethiopian refugee agency ARRA (Administration For Refugees And Returnee Affairs). MSF checks the health of the new arrivals, vaccinates them, checks children for malnutrition, provides basic health care and transfers urgent cases to its Dolo Ado health centre or the health centre in the transit camp.

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Annual Report - 30 May 2012

Somalia

Crisis far from over

Although media attention has faded, Somalia remains in the grip of a major humanitarian crisis. This is strikingly clear from the reports of the patients and staff of MSF. They continue daily battles to save lives in areas where violence, disease and malnutrition continue to threaten the lives and well-being of tens of thousands. Project Update - 25 May 2012

Somalia

Project for Somali refugees in Ethiopia handed over

MSF has handed over one of its largest projects for Somali refugees in Ethiopia. The number of refugees crossing the border has significantly gone down since the large humanitarian crisis of 2011. MSF initiated the project in the Hiloweyn camp, one of the five refugee camps near to the border between Ethiopia and Somalia, in August 2011, at the height of the crisis. Project Update - 24 May 2012

KAGURO, NORTH DARFUR-DECEMBER, 2007: An internally displaced mother and her son sit beneath a mosquito net while being treated malnutrition and respiratory infection at the hospital run by MSF Belgium. it is the only NGO at Kaguro area with more then two hundred villages around in Jebel Si. The territory is controlled by SLA.

Sudan

Somebody Help

The forgotten population of Jebel Si in North Darfur is left without healthcare as MSF struggles to continue its medical activities in the region. Report - 22 May 2012

MSF began providing medical assistance in the Jebel Si in 2005 through a
health post and in 2008 began running a rural hospital in Kaguro and five
health posts. These are the only health facilities in this area, and serve
a permanent population of approximately 100,000 people, as well as about
10,000 seasonal nomads all of whom are entirely dependent on MSF for
healthcare and emergency assistance.

As a result of the growing obstacles encountered over the last year due to
restrictions by the authorities, MSF has been forced to suspend most of its
medical activities in the region of Jebel Si, in North
Darfur State, Sudan. As MSF is the sole health provider in the region,
thousands of people are left without access to essential healthcare.

Sudan

100,000 people left without essential healthcare in Jebel Si, North Darfur

As a result of increasing restrictions imposed by Sudanese authorities, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to suspend most of its medical activities in the conflict area of Jebel Si, in Sudan’s North Darfur state. MSF is the sole health provider in the region. Press Release - 22 May 2012

Afghanistan

Providing surgical care

In August 2011, MSF opened a surgical hospital in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz. It is the only specialised surgical centre in northern Afghanistan. In less than a year after the hospital opened, the MSF team has treated more than 3,700 people. Project Update - 21 May 2012

Yemen

MSF treats victims of violence and fighting

The increase of violence and fighting in southern Yemen has led to a high number of victims and wounded among civilians. MSF teams already received and treated 8 severely injured patients at Aden hospital, transferred from Jaar Health Post, and 43 were received at Lawdar Hospital, both supported by MSF. Press Release - 18 May 2012

Vaccination

New global vaccine strategy glosses over basic immunisation gaps

A new, ten-year, multi-billion dollar action plan for global vaccination may fail to deliver if it does not directly address the weaknesses in routine immunisation programmes. Nineteen million children are being missed each year and this challenge must be explicitly addressed, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Press Release - 15 May 2012

A woman who took her child to get vaccinated against meningitis holds the child's vaccination card at a vaccination site in Safa Dougoumi, Dosso Region, Niger on Monday April 20, 2009.<br/><br/>MSF teams working with the Ministry of Health are treating patients suffering from meningitis and are vaccinating in the Dosso, Maradi and Zinder regions. So far a total of 2,135,000 people have been vaccinated by MSF and the Ministry of Health in these three affected southern regions. Meningitis is a contagious disease that kills half of infected people if they are not treated. Since the beginning of this year an area of sub-Saharan Africa known as the meningitis belt has been heavily affected by an epidemic of meningitis. In Nigeria, Niger, and Chad alone, medical teams of MSF are vaccinating a total population of about eight million people. This is the biggest vaccination MSF has ever carried out. Each day, MSF teams are also travelling to urban and remote health centres in order to collect data, review and treat patients and to donate drugs to the health facilities.

Access to medicines

The Right Shot: Extending the reach of affordable and adapted vaccines

This publication seeks to remedy some of the existing knowledge gaps by raising awareness on existing price differentials, exploring what factors drive fluctuations in vaccine prices, and discussing where development of better adapted vaccines could reduce barriers to immunisation and increase coverage levels of traditional and newer vaccines. Report - 15 May 2012

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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Documentary 'Confronting trauma' looks at MSF's mental health programme in Hebron