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Kala Azar activities in Tabarak Allah hospital, Gedaref, Sudan

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Kala Azar in Sudan: Ten years of treating a 'disease in hiding'

After ten years treating Kala Azar in the region, MSF handed over the to the ministry of health our kala azar medical activities in May 2020. During that time, MSF treated, and saved almost 7,000 patients1, keeping the mortality below 1% except during the initial peaks. Project Update - 15 Jun 2020

Neglected Diseases

Neglected Tropical Diseases: ‘Incredible progress has been made but there’s still a long way to go’

“I’m heartened at how much progress has been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases over the last few decades. There have been substantial advances in terms of coverage and innovations, compared to when MSF started treating patients 20 to 30 years ago. This is good news for the more than one billion people affected by NTDs, who are among the world’s poorest and most marginalized. Stories from the Frontline - 30 Jan 2020

A boy leads a donkey with water canisters from the berkit (rainwater collecting clay pond)[Photo:Susanne Doettling/MSF]

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Giving birth on the move

A Somali midwife working to tackle maternal deaths among nomad women

Doolo Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia Stories from the Frontline - 13 Dec 2019

Villagers surrounded by water and stranded in a shrinking area of dry land[Photo: Nicola Flamigni/MSF]

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South Sudan: “People tell us these are the worst floods they have ever seen”

Kim Phillips, logistics coordinator of MSF in South Sudan Stories from the Frontline - 5 Dec 2019

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Bringing medical care to people in central Somalia

Southern and central parts of Somalia are currently affected by floods that have forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and triggered a humanitarian crisis. But even before the floods, people in Somalia were very vulnerable following decades of protracted conflict.

Galkayo, a town in central Somalia, hosts a large number of internally displaced people who have fled violence, drought and other climate hazards within the country. It also hosts migrants and refugees, as well as people from the neighboring Somali region of Ethiopia seeking better healthcare.

Mudug Regional Hospital is the city´s main referral hospital, serving some half a million people. MSF has been supporting this facility since May 2017. Today, we work in the emergency room, care for malnourished children, treat people with tuberculosis, assist women with complicated pregnancies and run mobile clinics. These are some of the stories of MSF’s patients in Galkayo. Press Release - 20 Nov 2019

Mohamed Kalil is MSF’s humanitarian affairs advisor [Photo: Abdalle Mumin/MSF]

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Somalia: “Floods have left people so vulnerable that it’s a dilemma to decide whose needs are the greatest”

Mohamed Kalil is MSF’s humanitarian affairs advisor for Somalia and Somaliland. He has been working for the organisation for over a decade and was part of the first emergency team deployed in Beledweyne to respond to the flood crisis. Now back from the field, he shares his experience. Stories from the Frontline - 19 Nov 2019

People queue at the entrance of an MSF mobile clinic held in a health post in Banko Baya town, Guji, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. [ © Igor Barbero / MSF]

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Ethiopia: The constant cycle of displacement

Thousands of people have shuttled backwards and forwards between the Gedeo and Guji areas of southern Ethiopia over the past 15 months, following an outbreak of ethnic violence in April 2018 and repeated efforts by the authorities to relocate them. Article - 14 Jul 2019

Mental Health

Displaced and distressed: the case of mental health in East Africa

With the exception of Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya, nearly all MSF mental health programmes in the East and Horn region have seen a significant increase of patients. Project Update - 22 Jan 2019

Access to medicines

As WHO issues critical new TB treatment recommendations, MSF calls on governments to urgently scale-up all oral treatment

MSF calls on countries with large numbers of people with DR-TB to urgently start implementing these new treatment guidelines Press Release - 22 Dec 2018

War and conflict

Ethiopia: More aid needed for people caught up in multiple displacement crises

MSF’s call comes as its teams end one emergency response in the south of the country while preparing to respond wherever the next crisis arises Crisis Update - 20 Dec 2018