The number of refugees crossing the border into Ethiopia has increased to around 300 per day, numbers not seen since July. “The capacity to receive more people and provide the necessary food, nutritional care, medical care, drinking water, sanitation and more is grossly insufficient,” said Wojciech Asztabski, MSF Project Coordinator in Dollo Ado. Press Release - 2 Nov 2011

Social violence and exclusion

Urban Survivors

Over the last decades, rapid and sustained urbanisation has swelled existing slums, and spurred the creation of new ones around the world. Today, more than one out of ten people on the planet live in a slum. To highlight the critical humanitarian and medical needs that exist in urban settings worldwide, MSF is now launching Urban Survivors - a multimedia project in collaboration with the NOOR photo agency and Darjeeling Productions. Voices from the Field - 2 Nov 2011

Somalia

MSF treats wounded after camp for displaced is hit by bombardment in Lower Juba

MSF staff are treating dozens of injured following an aerial bombardment on the town of Jilib that hit a camp for internally-displaced people at around 1:30 pm on Sunday. MSF is transporting the wounded to the hospital in Marere for stabilisation and treatment, and may have to refer some patients to other facilities due to limits to the surgical capacity at the hospital. Statement - 30 Oct 2011

Türkiye

MSF provides assistance to quake-affected villages

MSF provides assistance to quake-affected villages Project Update - 28 Oct 2011

Haiti

Cholera vaccines one possible option for preventing more outbreaks

Dr David Olson, MSF medical advisor for diarrheal diseases, has been involved in MSF’s response to the epidemic from the beginning. Here, he answers questions about the possibility of using cholera vaccines to address these needs. Voices from the Field - 25 Oct 2011

Somalia

Vaccination campaign suspended due to fighting in Dayniile

After heavy fighting erupted on 20th October in Dayniile, on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to suspend its measles vaccination campaign in the area. Project Update - 24 Oct 2011

Natasha tenderly cuddles her son, Alexi, who was being treated for malnutrition and was responding positively. Alexi ate the ready to eat therapeutic food without difficulty, and showed a steady gain in weight over the several-week program.

Access to medicines

Five Lives: How a Financial Transaction Tax Could Support Global Health

‘5 Lives’ are the stories of people that MSF works with every day, whose health and lives often hang on a simple medical intervention. Report - 20 Oct 2011

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Catherine Atieno lives with her family in Kibera, a deprived area of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Catherine is HIV positive and is being treated at an MSF clinic in Kibera where she also works as a cleaner and a cook. Seven years ago, after she had started antiretroviral treatment, Catherine documented her life in pictures in a project called 3My Life with HIV3.
Now, in 2011, Catherine's life is very full and she is a healthy and active individual, who in addition to her normal job, has started up a small sugar plantation up country to generate more money to educate her children.

Access to medicines

Proposed EU financial transaction tax should help bail out global health

The financial transaction tax (FTT) proposed by France and Germany and due to be discussed at Sunday’s European Council meeting and next month’s G20 Summit, could help save millions of lives if a percentage were allocated to global health, according to an issue brief released today by MSF. Press Release - 20 Oct 2011

Haiti

Haitian lives still threatened by inadequate cholera response

One year since the start of the ongoing cholera epidemic in Haiti, people all over the country are still threatened by the deadly disease. Press Release - 19 Oct 2011

Libya

The integrity of medical facilities must be respected

MSF is calling on the warring parties in Sirte to ensure civilians have access to care, and to respect the security and integrity of the wounded inside medical facilities. Press Release - 19 Oct 2011

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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Surge in the number of Somali refugees demands increased capacity