An urgent scale-up of aid is needed in the northern district of Abs, the area worst affected by Yemen’s cholera outbreak, according to Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The disease is spread by contaminated water, so water and sanitation activities are particularly vital to...
It’s a late on a clear Wednesday morning and a boat coasts across the water toward the small village of Kuemdoc, on the shore of the Phom El Zaraf river. An MSF flag flutters from the side. A crowd of people are gathered on the riverbank, waiting under a tree, sheltering from the hot, South...
As part of its ongoing emergency response to Ebola in West Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has carried out the largest-ever distribution of antimalarials in Sierra Leone, alongside the Ministry of Health. Teams distributed 1.5 million antimalarial treatments to...
Since December 2013, Central African Republic (CAR) has been torn apart by a conflict with increasingly religious overtones. The escalating violence and displacement have made an already catastrophic health situation even worse. Central Africans are facing food insecurity and spiralling malaria,...
María SIMÓN has borne witness to the degradation of the conflict hitting the Central African Republic for over one year. She has been operations coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Kabo (in the north of the country) for the past seven months and she admits it has not been easy. It has been...
An outbreak of malaria in Lulingu (South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo) is affecting large numbers of people, prompting an emergency response by MSF, whose teams have treated more than 2,500 people since the start of May. Local authorities initially feared they were facing an outbreak of...
Diseases must be tackled together in order to pre-empt another crisis The number of severely malnourished children expected to be treated in the Sahel region in 2013 amounts to 1.4 million; 1 out of 5 children in Niger. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has seen an increase in the number of...
In Guinea, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has set up a network of community health agents as part of its strategy to tackle malaria. These volunteers show a real commitment to working for the wellbeing of their communities. André Millimouno is a builder by trade, but in September 2010 this cheerful...
