Families fleeing a wave of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo have found refuge in a stadium, where MSF teams are providing emergency healthcare.
Photo film: Photographer Lynsey Adarrio travelled to Bo, Sierra Leone, for a project on maternal mortality. “Giving birth is one of the most intimate things a woman does in her lifetime..."
Update on ead poisoning crisis in Zamfara State, Nigeria. This six-month progress report finds that on nearly all agreed action points, very little has materialised.
Press Release: In March 2010, MSF was alerted to a high number of child fatalities in Zamfara state, northern Nigeria—an estimated 400 children died. Laboratory testing later confirmed high levels of lead in the blood of the surviving children.
PRESS RELEASE: Tens of thousands are trapped in Deir Ezzor, Syria. MSF calls for the sick and wounded to be evacuated and for international medical teams to be given official authorisation to provide impartial assistance.
Visit MSF projects around the world and see what we really do. This month we look, primarily, towards the plight of displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the hidden crisis of violence in South Sudan.
In the forests of Central African Republic, children under five are dying in numbers normally seen only in wars or natural disasters. MSF nurse Margarete Sepùlveda is doing what she can to change this.
Urban Survivors is an innovative online campaign to help highlight the impact of violence in Central America and Mexico. The lack of adapted policies to respond to this emergency means that many survivors of violence are left without access to healthcare, support or protection.
PRESS RELEASE: Advances in the development of new diagnostic tests and treatment bode well for the fight against sleeping sickness, however, national control activities on the ground are crippled by a lack of sustainable funding.
Op-ed by MSF's International President, Unni Karunakara, on the shocking reality and endemic problem of sexual violence in Papua New Guinea.
PRESS RELEASE: Meeting the lifesaving needs of people left behind by the global health revolution will be the focus of the Lives in the Balance conference in December in New York, held by MSF and others.