Prefab container hospital could bring a decade of healthcare to Léogâne, Haiti

The hospital was built by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Léogâne within five months and was inaugurated on October 8. Haitian officials attended the ceremony. Project Update - 13 Oct 2010

Global

Mental healthcare a core part of MSF's emergency aid

Many migrants and refugees suffer from psychological trauma as a result of their experiences, the dangerous journey to Malta and general uncertainty for the future. During one group activity organised by MSF, migrants were asked to illustrate their past experiences. "The idea was to encourage them to tell their stories: how they reached Europe, why they escaped from their country, the situation they are in now. They were relieved to be able to get these stories out", said Elisa Finocchiaro, MSF worker who helped organise the activity.
The following is a series of snapshots from MSF mental health programs in Kashmir, Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq. These snapshots sketch some of the complex and painful issues confronted by those who seek counselling, as well as some of the challenges encountered by MSF in providing these services. Project Update - 11 Oct 2010

Honduras

MSF tackles outbreak of dengue fever in Honduras with a new strategy

Due to an alarming increase in dengue fever cases in Honduras this year, MSF has launched an emergency intervention in Tegucigalpa, capital of the Central American country, Honduras, where the majority of cases have been reported. MSF is supporting local health services with a three-pronged approach focusing on medical care, vector control and community education. Such dengue intervention is relatively new for MSF. Project Update - 9 Oct 2010

Balochistan province<br/>Province du Baloutchistan, septembre 2010.<br/>La clinique fixe de MSF à Dera Murad Jamali. Avec les Docteurs Linnea et Kaye dans l'O.T. pour une césarienne avec complication. L'utérus est descendu trop bas suite à plusieurs grossesses. *** Local Caption *** Pakistan - Suite aux inondations qui ont frappées, à partir de juillet 2010, successivement les provinces du Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, du Pendjab, du Sind et du Baloutchistan, MSF a mis en place une réponse d urgence pour venir en aide aux personnes sinistrées : consultations médicales, dispensaires mobiles, distribution d eau potable, activités d assainissement de l eau et distribution de biens de première nécessité.<br/><br/>Pakistan - Following the floods which stroke since the end of July 2010 successively the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pendjab, Sind and Baloutchistan, MSF set up an emergency response to provide aid to affected people: medical consultations, mobile clinics, safe water distribution, water and sanitation activities and non-food items distribution.

Pakistan

Boosting maternal and child healthcare in Dera Murad Jamali, Pakistan

"People in Pakistan, unfortunately, believe that a good delivery has to be short and, as such, practitioners often give large of amounts of oxytocin" sometimes eight times as much as allowed in order to have the quicker deliveries which then leads to more complicated and dangerous births. This is the biggest problem we face here and we are deeply concerned," said Dr Ekdahl. Project Update - 5 Oct 2010

Chad

Chadians face a threefold emergency of hunger, floods and cholera

A long drought in Chad, followed by torrential rains, has destroyed crops, flooded wells and cut off villages. Weakened by malnutrition and without access to clean water, people are particularly vulnerable to cholera outbreaks in the region Project Update - 4 Oct 2010

Access to medicines

First patent goes into the medicines patent pool drug companies must now follow suit

The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced today it will license a patent on the HIV medicine darunavir to the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism designed to boost access to more affordable AIDS drugs in the developing world. The move acts as a wake-up call to pharmaceutical companies to put patents on key AIDS medicines into the Pool, according to international humanitarian medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or MSF). Press Release - 30 Sep 2010

Morocco

MSF raises concern over the medical condition of migrants after mass expulsions by the Moroccan police

"Our team has witnessed the direct impact of these mass raids and expulsions on the medical condition and mental health of the migrants," said Jorge Martin, MSF's head of mission in Morocco. Press Release - 30 Sep 2010

MSF doctors and nurses helping Somali displace people southern Mogadishu howl wadaag district on August 13, 2011.

Somalia

Casualties overwhelming medical capacity in Somalia

Ongoing warfare in Mogadishu straining ability to treat scores of wounded. Project Update - 29 Sep 2010

Uzbekistan

You can see tuberculosis in Uzbekistan in a heartbeat

A patient with advanced MDR-TB. She is too frail to play table tennis, as are most of her fellow patients at the hospital. Project Update - 24 Sep 2010

Access to medicines

Lack of funding undercuts opportunities to overcome global health threats

Fight against childhood malnutrition and HIV could be transformed by innovative funding mechanisms currently tabled at UN Millennium Development Goals Summit. Press Release - 20 Sep 2010

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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