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Malnutrition

Sudan: MSF leaves lasting legacy of a hospital for the community in White Nile state

This month, MSF is handing over its medical activities in White Nile state, including Al-Kashafa hospital, to the Sudanese Ministry of Health. Article - 20 Dec 2021
 
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COVID-19 Coronavirus

Responding to COVID-19 Global Accountability Report 5

May to September 2021 Reports - 9 Dec 2021
 
Access to Healthcare

Libya: Up Close and Personal With MSF Tripoli Team

Since the early stages of the MSF Tripoli project, our Libyan colleagues have been working around the clock to ensure the smooth running of activities, despite Libya’s dynamic and highly unpredictable political and security environment. Stories from the Frontline - 15 Nov 2021
 
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Bringing medical care closer to people's homes in Kenya

In 2017, MSF started a program in Embu, Kenya to mentor, integrate and decentralize medical care for patients living with NCDs into primary health facilities. Martha Muundi, who was a Clinical Officer Mentor in the project, describes the project Stories from the Frontline - 12 Nov 2021
 
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Pink October: what are the challenges of treating cancer in Mali?

During the Pink October campaign, MSF and its many partners screened more than 5,000 women in Bamako for breast and cervical cancer. Article - 9 Nov 2021
 
Climate Emergency

MSF warns of health and humanitarian impacts of climate change in new 2021 Lancet Countdown Report

After years of witnessing how climate change has likely exacerbated health and humanitarian crises in multiple contexts where we work, we are compelled to speak out about what we see. Article - 21 Oct 2021
 
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The health benefits of community engagement in northeast DRC

MSF strategy is based on the desire to make the community an actor in the health of its members, and not just a beneficiary. Article - 1 Oct 2021
 
Malnutrition

Al-Geneina, West Darfur: Humanitarian aid is being rolled back but the needs remain

Dr Hashim Jama Omer Osman is a Sudanese medical doctor who has worked for MSF since 2013. He spent four years with other INGOs before joining MSF. He has worked across Sudan as well as at MSF projects in Jordan, Nigeria, Somalia and Ethiopia. He is currently MSF’s project medical referent in Al-Geneina. Article - 29 Sep 2021
 
MSF staff cares for a new mother at the maternity in Gambella. 2019
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Forced suspension of majority of MSF activities, amid enormous needs in Ethiopia

The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has suspended all activities in the Amhara, Gambella and Somali regions of Ethiopia, as well as in the west and northwest of Tigray region, to comply with a three-month suspension order from the Ethiopian Agency for Civil Society Organizations (ACSO) on July 30th. Crisis Update - 10 Sep 2021
 
MSF surgical teams perform an operation on a patient injured by the fighting in Kunduz
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Medical care in Kunduz, Afghanistan: Making it work

Fighting in the city of Kunduz in north-eastern Afghanistan ended on 8 August. During the clashes, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) transformed its office space into a temporary trauma unit to treat the people wounded. That unit is now closed and on 16 August all patients were transferred to the nearly-finished Kunduz Trauma Centre that MSF had been building since 2018. The local community still requires trauma care. A medic in MSF’s Kunduz team describes their experience during the fighting and the work that is going on today. Stories from the Frontline - 9 Sep 2021