352 Results For "mental health"
 
Kingsley Makwale MSF clinician examining Aisha at Mbenje Health Centre [Photo: Isabel Corthier/MSF]
HIV/AIDS

“No time to lose”: AIDS deaths toll stagnating due to lack of basic testing at community level

A 15-country snapshot report on progress in the fight against advanced HIV Press Release - 2 Dec 2019
 
Access to Healthcare

Facing Noma

Videos and Photos - 19 Nov 2019
 
Dadaab Overview
Distribution of essentials

SHUT OUT & FORGOTTEN

Refugees in Dadaab appeal for Dignity Article - 18 Nov 2019
 
Mental Health

Tips to De-Stress

Videos and Photos - 30 Oct 2019
 
Kidnapping of migrants has been for a while now a lucrative business for the criminal gangs operating in the Mexican northern cities bordering the US. [photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi]
Access to Healthcare

Increase in kidnappings and extreme violence against migrants on the southern border of Mexico

The policies of criminalisation, persecution, detention and deportation applied in Mexico in order to contain migratory flows to the northern border with the US have forced the migrant population to go underground and take increasingly dangerous routes where they are more vulnerable to criminal gangs and violence during their journey through Mexico.

Press Release - 30 Oct 2019
 
Mental Health

Travelling the world for better mental health care

By Harriet Ogayo MSF in the news - 16 Oct 2019
 
Two-and-half year old Justin* receives his shot the investigational Ebola vaccine rVSV-ZEBOV,at a vaccination point set up in the community of Kimbangu in the city of Beni. [© Samuel Sieber/MSF ]
Access to Healthcare

Vaccinating against Ebola: The challenges of containing the outbreak in Beni

Beni is one of the recurring hotspots of the current Ebola virus disease epidemic in the Nord Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  MSF has recently started supporting vaccination activities but reaching the right people in time is a complex endeavour. Project Update - 3 Oct 2019
 
Thousands of life jackets left behind by arriving migrants are gathered at a dump on Lesbos Island, Greece.  [ © Robin Hammond/Witness Change]
Access to Healthcare

Greece: Islands once again at breaking point

As sea arrivals reach record high numbers, vulnerable people on Lesbos remain trapped in overcrowded and unsafe conditions – without access to urgently needed mental health and medical care.
Stories from the Frontline - 9 Sep 2019
 
Refugees trapped in Moria camp on Lesbos Island. The awful conditions at Moria camp/Olive Grove and arbitrary administrative situations have had a dramatic impact on their health and in particular their mental health. [ © Robin Hammond/Witness Change ]
Access to Healthcare

A disastrous policy: vulnerable people trapped on the Greek islands pay the price of inhumane policies of the EU-Turkey deal

In Lesbos and Samos, thousands of people are left in inhumane conditions with very limited access to water, sanitation and health. Article - 5 Sep 2019
 
June 2018: A group of Rohingya refugees await assignment to their new homes in in the Kutupalong camp, Cox's Bazar. [© Pablo Tosco/Angular ]
Access to Healthcare

The Rohingya in Bangladesh: “The population has been completely suspended in time”

Arunn Jegan, Emergency Coordinator for MSF Bangladesh describes the situation for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Stories from the Frontline - 26 Aug 2019