Syria In Syria the number of people in need of urgent medical care keeps increasing. MSF runs six hospitals, four health centres and several mobile clinic programmes inside Syria. The extremely high insecurity means that MSF's reach is limited. Throughout most of the country, there are places where...
The harvest is almost in, but MSF continues to admit new patients to its emergency feeding programme in eastern Chad It is early morning, and already hot, when two 4x4 vehicles pull up in front of a small health centre in the village of Angara in eastern Chad. A crowd of women and children huddle...
MSF Malaria prevention pilot projects in Mali and Chad show dramatic, promising results; Malaria cases and hospitalizations plummet A large scale malaria prevention program, consisting of intermittent distributions of anti-malaria medicines, appears to be drastically reducing the number of new...
In the Sahel, the annual "hunger gap" period has only just begun, but in some regions of Chad the malnutrition situation is already worse than usual. In a few weeks' time, the rains will have rendered a lot of the country inaccessible and it will be impossible to reach children in need of treatment...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is widening its health and nutrition programs in Chad to respond to the growing malnutrition crisis in the country. The aid organisation is currently treating malnourished children at five projects in the country, and has dispatched emergency teams to conduct...
As a food crisis in Chad continues to grow, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is expanding the number of emergency malnutrition treatment programs in the country to help curb soaring levels of severe acute malnutrition. Even in a normal year, Chad has one of the highest rates of chronic malnutrition...
Food and water are scarce in Chad’s eastern city of Biltine, and some families are down to their last two weeks’ worth of food, says MSF’s Dr. Kodjo EDOH. As a result, malnutrition rates amongst children are soaring. Elsewhere in the country, measles and a deadly epidemic of meningitis have broken...
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Immediate response needed to save lives and prevent deeper health crisis, says MSF Severe acute malnutrition in parts of Chad’s Sahel belt has reached emergency levels and requires immediate life-saving intervention, according to the humanitarian agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In addition,...
In December 2011, Dutch nurse Marja Scholten coordinated a vaccination campaign in the African country of Chad. Together, with a team of 300 people, she ensured that nearly 110,000 people were vaccinated against meningitis. She has shared her experience. Preventative campaign I was happy to return...
