“I met people whose villages had been burnt to the ground by one military group or another; they had run into the bush and were living with trees over the top of them and no mosquito nets. The malaria – I’d never seen anything like it.” Tom de Kok from Pinga, Democratic Republic of Congo Tom de Kok...
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Ivory Coast: violence, looting and exodus, Libya: Wounded evacuated to Tunisia, Columbia: neglected by the health system, South Sudan: Aweil Hospital extended, France: Back to the streets
Since mid-February, the medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working to fight a meningitis epidemic in the south of Chad. Aided by the Ministry of Health, it has launched a campaign to curb the spread of this deadly disease. The first meningitis cases were reported in...
MSF teams in the South Sudanese towns of Bentiu and Malakal have treated over 30 civilians with gunshot wounds in recent days. MSF’s intervention is alongside and in coordination with the South Sudanese Ministry of Health. The civilians got caught in the crossfire of clashes between the ruling...
In Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Southern Sudan, where most people have very little access to health care, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs a mother and child health program. In the maternity ward of Aweil Civil Hospital, MSF teams work to reduce the maternal death rate. In the bustling maternity...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is supporting health centres in Yemen, helping to respond to needs emerging in light of ongoing unrest and, in coordination with Yemeni authorities and medical committees, is ready to scale up its support if needed. MSF also continues to run medical activities in...
The medical and humanitarian emergency in Ivory Coast persists as violence rages in several neighbourhoods in Abidjan, and security in the west of the country remains critically unstable, with populations hiding in fear in the bush without access to food, water or medical aid. Médecins Sans...
