“These are the direct effects of European deterrence policies; people are obliged to put their life at risk and to live in undignified conditions for months.” Press Release - 3 Aug 2017

MSF cleaner while spreading chlorination at the shoes of one of the nurses as he was getting out of the cholera treatment center. This is one of the precautions taken to prevent the spread of the cholera outside the center.

Yemen

Crisis update – July 2017

The conflict in Yemen, which escalated in March 2015, has led to a full-blown humanitarian emergency. Project Update - 3 Aug 2017

The operational theatre after a surgery conducted in Tal Abyad general hospital, which MSF is working in partnership with the health authorities to support the hospital, Northern Syrian.

Syria

Raqqa’s besieged residents deprived of urgent medical care

“Patients tell us large numbers of sick and wounded people are trapped inside Raqqa city with little or no access to medical care and scant chance of escaping the city” Project Update - 31 Jul 2017

In the in-patient department of MSF's clinic in Pibor.

Photo series taken in Pibor and Gumuruk to accompany the November 2012 Jonglei Report, describing the consequences of violence in South Sudan's Jonglei State. Direct consequences seen by MSF include gunshot and stab wounds, many women and children being among the victims. The less visible, but equally serious, indirect consequences of the violence are when people flee into the bush with no possessions, vulnerable to malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea. Furthermore, healthcare itself is under threat, and four of MSF's six clinics in Jonglei state have been looted, damaged or destroyed in the past year and a half.

South Sudan

MSF strongly condemns the armed robbery of its clinic

“This event forced us to evacuate part of our team and reduce our activities at a time when people are in desperate need of healthcare.” Press Release - 14 Jul 2017

Central African Republic

Baby brutally killed at a hospital

“The callousness of this attack highlights both the indiscriminate nature and disturbing escalation in violence in CAR against civilians" Statement - 12 Jul 2017

La route entre les village de Kinyandoni et Kiwanja, situés à environ 70km au nord de Goma, dans la province du Nord-Kivu, en République démocratique du Congo, le 19 décembre 2015. / The road between the villages of Kinyandoni and Kiwanja, located about 70km north of Goma in the province of North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 19th, 2015.

Democratic Republic of Congo

Release our colleagues abducted four years ago

Despite our efforts, and the escalation in violence in DRC and more particularly in North Kivu, MSF has still not ascertained the whereabouts of our three colleagues. Press Release - 11 Jul 2017

Saleh Mohammed, aged 57, from Sa’ada, is living in a displaced setting near Abs, Hajjah governorate. He is in Al Khamees health centre holding his two-year-old daughter, who has been exposed to war for most of her life: she was born in January 2015. Most of her siblings are dead.

Yemen

Urgent need for improved water and sanitation to curb cholera

“In Abs district, our teams are seeing an extremely poor sanitation situation and insufficient access to clean drinking water” Press Release - 10 Jul 2017

Nigeria

On the move and unable to move because of conflict

“We settled here because we thought it was a safer place. We don’t think it is safe enough to go back there yet.” Voices from the Field - 7 Jul 2017

The last two functional ambulances in Al-Marj neighbourhood (in the East Ghouta besieged area near Damascus) were destroyed beyond repair in an aerial bomb attack on Monday 05 December 2016. They were parked in the hospital’s warehouse/garage, very near to the makeshift hospital’s location. Two hospital cars, used to transporting supplies and medical personnel, were also destroyed in the blast. The lack of ambulances will have an impact on the ability to quickly treat wounded when there is bombing or shelling in the area, but above all it will affect the capacity to refer the most sick patients to larger secondary referral hospitals. The makeshift hospital in Al-Marj is not equipped for complex or long-term in-patient hospital care, and this could have a big impact on the ability to refer patients for appropriate secondary care.

Global health

MSF urges G20 to take action on health issues

“The G20 leaders need to improve people’s access to medical care and turn their words into action.”
Press Release - 6 Jul 2017

Khansa hospital destroyed during the battle for Mosul.

Iraq

Medical care in West Mosul: “There are no heroes in this story, only victims”.

When Ahmed* arrived at MSF’s field hospital south of Mosul, Iraq, many of the hospital’s staff burst into tears. For years, Ahmed, a skilled nurse, had been their colleague, caring for the sick and injured of West Mosul but now he was their patient and in need of urgent medical care. Voices from the Field - 6 Jul 2017

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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Harsh living conditions for migrants in Ventimiglia