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Sexual and Gender Based Violence

Untreated Sexual Violence: Volume 1

MSF’s report on #UntreatedViolence in Rustenburg reveals that sexual violence, including rape, is at worryingly high levels in the Platinum Mining Belt area: one in four women had been raped in their lifetime, and approximately half have experienced some form of sexual or intimate partner violence.
Report - 16 Aug 2016
 
Portrait of sex worker Aida at her home with one of her children
Activity Report

MSF’s Corridor Project in Mozambique and Malawi 2014-2015

MSF’s Corridor Project started in January 2014 with the objective to implement tailored and comprehensive interventions for hard-to-reach and marginalized populations present along the main transport corridors in Mozambique and Malawi.
Report - 15 Aug 2016
 
Lake Chad - people in dire need of support
Malnutrition

AFRICAN INDEPENDENT: Lake Chad has been forgotten

Latest News - 12 Aug 2016
 

Syria: “People are scared to go to hospitals”

An interview with a Syrian doctor managing an MSF supported hospital in east Aleppo
- 12 Aug 2016
 
Cholera

Ruphas Kafera “Safe water and proper sanitation is critical to reducing the risk of illness in the camps”

Ruphas Kafera, aged 37, who hails from Zimbabwe recently landed in Nigeria’s crisis hit Borno State, to help people suffering in wake conflict between Boko Haram and the military.
Fieldworkers Stories - 12 Aug 2016
 
Boost Hospital - Lashgar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan
Malnutrition

Afghanistan: Patients numbers falling in Helmand as intensifying conflict restricts access

Patient numbers are fluctuating considerably due to the intensifying conflict in districts surrounding Helmand’s provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.
Latest News - 12 Aug 2016
 

Doctors of Aleppo: Inside hospital damaged by bombs

Take a look inside a hospital damaged by bombs. Al-Daqaq hospital is one of the few medical facilities still operating in east Aleppo, Syria. On 23 July, the area around the hospital was bombed twice.
Videos and Photos - 12 Aug 2016
 
MSF intervention in Banki, Borno State, Nigeria , July 2016
Malnutrition

MSF warns of large-scale humanitarian disaster in northeastern Nigeria

An MSF team was able to reach the town of Banki, near the border with Cameroon. Approximately 15,000 people displaced by the conflict are living isolated and cut off in this half-destroyed town.
Videos and Photos - 12 Aug 2016
 
Testimony of a nigerian refugee
Malnutrition

Nigeria: “There is nothing left in Banki”

On 19-22 July, an MSF team from Cameroon provided emergency medical assistance and delivered food in Banki, Nigeria near the Cameroon border. Some patients needed to be referred to neighbouring Cameroon due to the severity of their condition.

 
Patient and Staff Stories - 11 Aug 2016
 
Testimony of a nigerian refugee
Malnutrition

Nigeria: "Violent attacks forced us to leave our village"

When MSF teams visited Banki a couple of weeks ago, they found a catastrophic health situation, mainly marked by high rates of severe acute malnutrition. 

 
- 11 Aug 2016