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

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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

Syria

Safety of wounded and medical workers must be prioritised

Wounded people and medical workers are still being targeted and threatened in Syria. MSF insists that all parties to the conflict must fully respect the physical integrity of wounded people, doctors and healthcare facilities. MSF calls for increased political and diplomatic efforts to ensure the safety of patients and medical workers, without the use of force. Press Release - 14 May 2012

Nigeria

Promised funds must be released to resolve the Zamfara lead poisoning crisis

An international conference on the Zamfara lead poisoning crisis, of which Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was the lead organiser, concluded on Thursday. The conference delegates endorsed a clear action plan calling for Nigerian government commitment to resolve the crisis. Press Release - 11 May 2012

Bagega gold processing site. Hanafi Sami, 25 years old from Bagega village. Hanafi is newly married to his first wife. He has heard about lead poisoning and is always very careful to leave his tools in the compound where it is safer, he does not want any negative effects for any future children. The stones containing the gold are being put through a grinder after they are crushed, what is left is sand. This man is sifting out any small stones that might still be there.

Nigeria

Lead poisoning crisis in Zamfara state northern Nigeria paper

In March 2010, MSF was alerted to a high number of child fatalities in Zamfara state, northern Nigeria – an estimated 400 children died. Laboratory testing later confirmed high levels of lead in the blood of the surviving children. Report - 11 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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Project for Somali refugees in Ethiopia handed over