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Landslides in Mocoa, Colombia
Colombia

MSF provides medical and psychosocial assistance to people affected by the landslide in Mocoa

MSF teams are providing psychosocial support and medical care to victims of last weekend’s landslide in Mocoa, Colombia. Project Update - 10 Apr 2017
 
Measles Vaccination in Conakry
Guinea

Battling a large-scale measles epidemic

Less than a year after the Ebola epidemic officially ended, the Guinean health system continues to struggle. Press Release - 7 Apr 2017
 
Haemorrhagic fevers

The Politics of Fear

Written by both Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and non-MSF authors, The Politics of Fear collects critical and comprehensive impressions of the West African Ebola epidemic's rapid appearance, uncontrollable spread and the challenges faced by the global health community in its response. amazon.co.uk - 6 Apr 2017
 
Candelaria Lanusse, MSF health adviser for Yemen
Yemen

"The war is taking a very high toll on the civilian population"

"The civilian population is paying a very high price. The war is also having other effects: fear, scarcity of food, rising fuel prices... " Voices from the Field - 5 Apr 2017
 
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Syria

Khan Sheikhoun victims have symptoms consistent with exposure to chemical substances

The MSF team provided drugs and antidotes to treat patients, and protective clothing for medical staff in the hospital’s emergency room. Statement - 5 Apr 2017
 
Mosul : Civilians caught in crossfire
Iraq

The patients we receive are the “lucky ones”

"Every day, we see the worst of the worst injuries inflicted by this war" Voices from the Field - 4 Apr 2017
 
North Syria, Jan 2017
Syria

Describing the toll of war on health in absentia

"In war-torn Syria, patients are besieged and in inaccessible areas. True numbers are unknown but those we do see paint a picture so bleak that the size and scale of an emergency health response seem unimaginable." Journal article - 3 Apr 2017
 
Zummar Maternity / IPD - March 2017
Iraq

Stabilising emergencies in a pocket of safety

MSF has expanded its activities in the Tal Afar district, northwest of Mosul, where the population has little access to healthcare Project Update - 3 Apr 2017
 
North Syria, Jan 2017
Syria

Explosive devices have deadly impact on people fleeing or returning home

“Booby-traps have been planted everywhere – under the carpet, in the fridge, even in children’s teddy bears,” says Karline Kleijer, MSF’s emergency manager for Syria. Report - 2 Apr 2017
 
MSF intervention in Banki, Borno State, Nigeria , July 2016
Nigeria

Case Study on humanitarian response in North-east Nigeria

This case study examines the humanitarian response to the conflict-related crisis in the North-East of Nigeria, focusing primarily on the period from 2015 to the end of 2016. The aim is test the central hypotheses of the Emergency Gap project: that the current structure, conceptual underpinning and prevalent mindset of the international humanitarian system limits its capacity to be effective in response to conflict-related emergencies. Emergency Gap - 1 Apr 2017
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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