Visit MSF projects around the world and see what we really do. This month, we are getting a clearer picture of the AIDS epidemic in Malawi and we visit our team in Jordan who are rebuilding shattered lives in the Middle East.
MSF has handed over one of its largest projects for Somali refugees in Ethiopia to ARRA, an Ethiopian refugee agency. The number of refugees crossing the border has significantly decreased since August 2011 –the height of the humanitarian crisis – when MSF opened the project.
PRESS RELEASE: MSF has postponed the decision on whether to resume work in its maternity unit in Khost province, Afghanistan, after an explosion wounded seven people in April 2012.
As a food crisis in Chad continues to grow, MSF is expanding the number of emergency malnutrition treatment programmes in the country to help curb soaring levels of severe acute malnutrition.
Through this picture story we meet the doctors and patients of MSF's trauma centre in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan. Since its opening in 2011, the MSF team has treated more than 3,700 people.
As a result of increasing restrictions imposed by Sudanese authorities, MSF has been forced to suspend most of its medical activities in the conflict area of Jebel Si, in Sudan’s North Darfur State.
As the conflict in Syria intensifies, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders is treating an increasing number of wounded Syrians who have fled from the conflict. At our free hospital in Amman, Jordan, 70 Syrians are currently receiving medical care for bullet wounds and torture injuries.
Large numbers of civilians have been wounded in fighting and bomb blasts in southern Yemen over the past nine days. An MSF team has treated eight severely injured patients with bomb-related injuries in Aden with other patients received at Lawdar hospital.
PRESS RELEASE: An international conference to find solutions to the Zamfara lead poisoning crisis, of which Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was the lead organiser, concluded on Thursday, 10th May.
To fully vaccinate a child with a basic package of immunisations, infants must be brought to a health facility at least five times before their first birthday. To do so, immunisation programmes need to be simplified, says MSF
PRESS RELEASE: The new multi-billion dollar Global Vaccines Action Plan may fail to deliver if it does not directly address the weaknesses in routine immunisation programmes.