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HIV/Aids

South Africa: A new chapter for school-based sexual and reproductive health services is needed

MSF is calling on the Provincial Departments of Education and School Governing Bodies to overcome the longstanding barriers of the past and move positively into the future by implementing the learner health policy.
Press Release - 13 Jun 2017
 

Ivory Coast: "He's a survivor"

Many women and newborns die during childbirth or soon after. The causes in the women include severe haemorrhage and eclampsia; for the babies, infection and low birth weight.
Latest News - 12 Jun 2017
 
Iraq

The MUST - Mobile Unit Surgical Trailer

The Mobile Unit Surgical Trailer (MUST) is essentially made up of shipping containers on wheels. In Iraq, the MUST contained a theatre, recovery room, and sterilisation unit. It’s built in a standard size and arrives just as it is.
Videos and Photos - 12 Jun 2017
 

Fezile Kanju: "What we consider work is actually life-changing to the people we treat”

A South African advocacy manager Fezile Kanju, met health groups and academics in Pakistan to discuss ways to tackle the hepatitis C virus.
Fieldworkers Stories - 9 Jun 2017
 
Measles

The Central African Republic falls back into war

With more than a hundred dead and thousands displaced. MSF, with its emergency team, has been supporting the hospital and the local health center for two weeks in the Central African Republic.
- 9 Jun 2017
 
Malnutrition

Iraq: “By the end, we were eating grass”

Two families recently escaped West Mosul, where Coalition-backed Iraqi forces are battling Islamic State militants. They and their families tell Francesco Segoni, MSF project coordinator in East Mosul, about the challenges of surviving under siege.
Patient and Staff Stories - 9 Jun 2017
 
Central African Republic

CAR: “I thought I was dead, but it seems that he didn’t reach a part of my throat and I kept breathing” 

"When I was lying on the ground, protecting myself from the bullets, a man approached me, lifted my head up and slit my throat with a knife..." Anga shares how he miraculously survived.
- 8 Jun 2017
 
Malnutrition

Central African Republic: Will Bambari be next?

Residents of Bambari worry that the violence engulfing the cities of Bangassou and Bria since early May in the form of brutal massacres could soon spread to Bambari, with a repetition of the bloodshed of the 2013-14 war.
Latest News - 8 Jun 2017
 
Iraq

Medical care in West Mosul: "I’m a doctor and it’s my duty."

Working as a medic inside besieged west Mosul
Crisis Update - 7 Jun 2017