Measles
MALI: Prevention is better than cure – measles vaccination
In September, alongside the Ministry of Health, MSF launched a vaccination campaign against measles in 12 of the 19 health zones of Timbuktu. The campaign reached over 50,000 children aged between 6 months and 14 years. Latest News - 29 Oct 2020
South Sudan
Latest News - 26 Oct 2020
South Sudan: Severe flooding worsens in many areas, raising health risks
Severe flooding is affecting an estimated 800,000 people across a wide swath of South Sudan, inundating homes and leaving people without adequate food, water or shelter. Many areas have been flooded since July, while river levels are continuing to rise, worsening the crisis.Latest News - 26 Oct 2020
Cameroon
MSF teams responds to school shooting in Kumba
Following a school shooting in Kumba on Sunday morning (26 October) in the South-West Cameroon, MSF teams launched a mass casualty plan, responding with our ambulance service and surgical care in the Presbyterian General Hospital (PGH). Press Release - 26 Oct 2020
Iraq
Humanitarians Behind the Scenes
With more than 1,700 staff, we provide free quality healthcare for all people in Iraq regardless of race, religion, gender or political affiliation and offers services such as basic health care, treatment for chronic diseases, secondary healthcare, paediatric and emergency care, specialised services to treat severely injured patients with post-operative complications and mental health support to displaced people and returning population most affected by violence in Iraq. Latest News - 21 Oct 2020
Mental Health
Burkina Faso: The invisible scars of violence
Burkina Faso has been in the throes of increasingly violent conflict for several years, resulting in massive population displacement. Many have been victims of violence, have lost loved ones or witnessed atrocities. They live in a permanent state of fear and distress about the deterioration of their living conditions. To ease the psychological suffering of people affected by the conflict, MSF teams started mental health activities in Burkina Faso´s Eastern region at the end of 2019. Latest News - 19 Oct 2020
Access to Healthcare
MSF in South Africa 2000 – 2020
Year 2020 marks 20 years of Doctors Without Borders (MSF)’s humanitarian work in South Africa.
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Migrants
Sea Watch rescue 4 : Accounts from survivors about their experience
The Central Mediterranean has been emptied of rescue boats, the result of a sustained campaign to criminalize NGOs trying to save lives at European borders. Even as we hear the news of fatal shipwrecks, Sea-Watch 4 and our MSF team onboard remains trapped in the port of Palermo, unable to resume life-saving operations. Latest News - 16 Oct 2020
HIV/AIDS