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Health workers attend to patients in the outpatient department at the MSF supported Bay Regional Hospital in Baidoa, Somalia.
Somalia

Barriers to care have deadly consequences for women and children in Baidoa

People in the Bay region of Somalia's South West state face significant challenges in accessing healthcare. Women and children often bear the brunt, with delays in accessing care causing unnecessary deaths. Project Update - 8 Aug 2024
 
MSF health promotion manager (Kanda) training newly hired community agents on cholera sensitization. Pomoni CTU.
Comoros

Our emergency response to cholera in Comoros

We began a project in Comoros in February 2024 to respond to a cholera outbreak. Project Update - 7 Aug 2024
 
MSF vehicle arriving at Ganjuwa hospital after dropping off our teams at the AFTC outpatient clinics. MSF is working in 3 remote areas to provide better care for people living in isolated communities.
Nigeria

Community-based solutions used for malnutrition response in Bauchi

In Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, MSF teams are expanding their activities to respond to an overwhelming surge in malnutrition. Press Release - 6 Aug 2024
 
Dutch adaptation of web series : Five days in a Yemeni hospital, Mocha

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Palestinian teenager finding shelter from the sun after his home was suddenly demolished without warning in Umm al Kheir, Masafer Yatta, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Palestine

Restrictions and violence block Palestinians in Hebron from medical care

Psychological trauma and lack of access to healthcare are part of the everyday reality for many Palestinians in Hebron governorate, Palestine, making life often unbearable. Press Release - 6 Aug 2024
 
Photo from the mini-documentary series "Displaced Lives" Episode 1: Esther.
Esther looks at the horizon standing on a stone on the outskirts of Elohim camp.
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF survey shows scale and continuing cycle of violence against displaced women in eastern DRC

A survey among displaced people in four camps around Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo shows alarming rates of violence, particularly sexual violence. Press Release - 5 Aug 2024
 
“I come from the village of Mandjebougou. I'm a trader, I'm married and I have seven children. 
The day before I fled, two of my brothers were kidnapped by armed men. They suspected my brothers of cooperating with the army. After freeing them, they announced that they needed 25 men. So all the young people in the village decided to flee.  
I also fled Mandjebougou because I was wanted. I sell couscous. One day, they came to buy some from me, but I didn't want to sell it to them. In the past, they had broken my son's phone and I asked them to fix it. They replied: ‘If you dare to ask us to compensate your son, it's only because you're free’. I think that's why they were looking for me.
One Tuesday morning in April, on my way back from the shop, I was alerted by a neighbour's phone call. I went out to the west side of the village. I reached the river and got into a pirogue. When it started, the armed men were running towards us. They asked the pirogue driver to stop, but he continued on to Niafounke. When we got to Niafounke, the piroguier told someone to take me to the site of the displaced people. I fled with what I was carrying that day.  
Today, I live at the IDP site with two of my children. I know they're still looking for me. Today, I have no source of income. I live in fear, far from my other children and my husband. I struggle to eat and my sleep is always troubled.”
Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Violent hostilities between armed men empty villages in northern Mali

MSF is providing water and healthcare to internally displaced people arriving in the town of Niafounké from the Gourma region, Northern Mali. Project Update - 2 Aug 2024
 
Since the start of the war in Sudan, healthcare facilities and medical staff have faced repeated attacks, including lootings of hospitals. In Zalingei, the teaching hospital has been looted and attacked multiple times throughout the year. During one attack by armed men in the hospital, a doctor was shot while operating on a patient. The doctor survived the shooting, but one patient died.

After over year of attacks on healthcare, Sudan's health system is barely functioning, and people have been cut from life-saving care. Often those most impacted are the ones displaced, unable to reach health services or buy medicine after losing their homes, belongings, and livelihoods. In Zalingei, MSF teams are providing secondary care in the Zalingei teaching hospital and supporting the Ministry of Health with rehabilitation, training and incentives for staff. In April, the teams re-opened the emergency, maternity, inpatient therapeutic feeding center and pediatric departments.
Sudan

Attacks on hospitals and aid blockade in El Fasher jeopardises lives

MSF is outraged by repeated hospital attacks and blockades in El Fasher, North Darfur, in Sudan, demanding respect for healthcare and urgent delivery of aid. Press Release - 1 Aug 2024
 
The Mpox epidemic is increasingly affecting people displaced by armed conflict in Goma, North Kivu. MSF has deployed its teams of health promoters (HP) to raise awareness of the behaviour to adopt to avoid contamination. Communities are urged to bring any suspected cases to the health centre as a matter of urgency, and to avoid discriminating against contaminated people.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Five questions about the mpox outbreak in DRC

Cases of mpox are on the rise in Democratic Republic of Congo, where MSF teams are responding to the outbreak. Interview - 30 Jul 2024
 
Nasser Hospital maternity department is providing some 25-30 safe deliveries a day. This is more than before the pre-war, as it is now one of the few operational maternity facilities in southern Gaza.
Gaza-Israel war

Nasser hospital must be protected as south Gaza hospitals receive waves of deadly influxes

Hospitals in southern Gaza have struggled under successive waves of mass casualty influxes in July, as fighting inches closer to Nasser hospital. Press Release - 29 Jul 2024
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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