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.
In late March, a Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team crossed the Turkish border into Syria in an effort to provide medical aid in the Idlib region.
Following visits to parts of Syria, MSF found that wounded people and medical workers remain targeted and threatened. MSF insists that all parties to the conflict must fully respect the physical integrity of wounded people, doctors and healthcare facilities.
Since late January, nearly 160,000 Malians have fled their country for camps in Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger. While instability persists in Mali, another imminent threat is looming - the rainy season, which will further complicate the deployment of aid.
We spend the day with Paul Sefoi, an MSF ambulance driver in Bo district, Sierra Leone. Since MSF's referral system was introduced, maternal deaths in Bo have halved.
Chad is particularly affected by fistula due to the vastness of its territory and the widespread lack of access to obstetric care. Trained with the aid of MSF, Dr Valentin Vadandi is one of the few experts in obstetric fistula surgery in the world.
VIDEO: MSF Month in Focus May 2012. This month we focus on the influx of refugees in Burkina Faso and South Sudan and mobilise to prevent malnutrition in Chad. The video also focuses on MSF teams working to treat fistula in the CAR.
PRESS RELEASE: Despite the growing complexity of an already unstable situation in North Kivu, the DRC, MSF continues to provide primary and secondary healthcare.
Food and water are scarce in Chad and some families are down to their last two weeks’ worth of food, says MSF. As a result, malnutrition rates amongst children are soaring, whilst measles and a deadly epidemic of meningitis have broken out.
Malaria is endemic in the Central African Republic (CAR), infecting most of the population at least once a year. We talk to Jeff Mutombo, MSF's medical coordinator in the CAR, about dealing with malaria.
With the rainy season now underway in Haiti, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has seen an increase in the number of cholera patients. Admissions to MSF's treatment centers in Port-au-Prince and Léogâne have more than tripled in less than one month.