| Photo of the Month AUGUST 2008 |
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Every year MSF sends around 3000 doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators and other professionals to work overseas.
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In some areas of Southern Nations and Nationalities Peoples region, the number of severely malnourished children treated by MSF strikingly reaches up to 11% of the total population under five years old. Read more...
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| © Henrik Glette/MSF |
Following the wave of xenophobic violence in South Africa in May this year, several temporary shelters were erected in open pockets of land in the Gauteng and Western Cape provinces for the displaced foreign nationals. Two months after the violence began MSF was still providing basic health care and mental health support to the refugees in all camps in Gauteng.
There were clashes between police and residents of the Glenanda shelter in Johannesburg on 17 July. MSF treated 24 patients for rubber-bullet wounds, among the patients was a six-month-old baby and her mother.
The photograph was taken that night. Jonathan Whittall from MSF SA is talking to residents huddled around a fire to keep warm.
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Mount Elgon: "Does Any body Care?"
On 17 June 2008 Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called for an immediate increase in assistance for the people of Mount Elgon in western Kenya, and an end to the indiscriminate violence they have been enduring for almost two years.
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Daniel Fiandero works as Medical Focal Point in Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is his first mission with MSF and this interview was conducted in June, six weeks after he arrived at the project, where the MSF unit is open seven days a week, the unit opens at 8 am and closes at about 5:30 pm. Of course that depends on emergencies. Read more...
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“Obstetric fistulas are as much a result of poverty, lack of education, and early marriage as it is of pregnancy and poor antenatal care,” says Dr Kathryn Chu from the MSF South Africa medical unit. Read more...
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