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Access to Healthcare

Kenya: A night on call with Emergency Technican Ruth

Videos and Photos - 3 Jul 2019
 
Aida talks with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) outreach workers about the use of contraception. | ©Morgana Wingard/NAMUH
Access to Healthcare

Mozambique: Peer educators support key and vulnerable populations to tackle HIV

At over 13 per cent, Mozambique has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV according to the last Ministry of Health survey Article - 3 Jul 2019
 
A woman in a detention centre in Libya, September 2018 [© Sara Creta/MSF]
Refugees, Migration and displacement

Libya: Deadly airstrikes on Tajoura detention centre

Tajoura detention centre, east of Tripoli was hit by airstrikes around midnight on Tuesday 2 July 2019 killing dozens migrants and refugees detained in the centre Article - 3 Jul 2019
 
An MSF ambulance on juja road, Nairobi, Kenya en-route to pick up a patient [ © Kiki / MSF ]
Access to Healthcare

Kenya: A Night on call

Many people visit MSF's Lavender house in Nairobi, Kenya on the worst day or night of their lives. But it's open for them around the clock whenever they need it most Article - 1 Jul 2019
 
The IDP camp for internally displaced people in Bunia, DRC. Thousands have fled their homes due to intercommunal violence in Ituri. [ ©Pablo Garrigos/MSF ]
Ebola

Urgent humanitarian response needed to crises in northeast Democratic Republic of Congo

Multiple humanitarian crises are unfolding at the same time in Ituri province: there is mass displacement due to violence, people are sheltering in terrible conditions, malaria. Press Release - 28 Jun 2019
 
woman walks past a group of young men after collecting water just as the sun set inside the UN Protection of Civilians site in Bentiu. [ © Dominic Nahr / MAPS]
Refugees, Migration and displacement

“The first challenge is disease, the second is security.” 

Teresa is a mother of four from Mayendit, who has lived in Bentiu PoC since 2013. She fled her village because of the conflict, where she witnessed people burned in their homes and sexual violence. She depends on leaving the PoC to collect firewood, where she is exposed to dangerous situations. Despite the many challenges she faces in the camp, she still believes it’s better than outside. 
 Stories from the Frontline - 27 Jun 2019
 
A man looks out from a shelter in the market zone in Bentiu PoC (Protection of Civilians) site. [ © Emin Ozmen/Magnum Photos ]
Refugees, Migration and displacement

“Sometimes we hear from the radio about peace, but we don't have full information.”

Fleeing war is difficult, fleeing with one leg even more so. Stories from the Frontline - 27 Jun 2019
 
Vials of Amphotericin B which is used to treat Cryptococcal Meningitis [© Albert Masias/MSF]
Access to medicines

Gilead Sciences fails on promise to expand access to lifesaving drug for people living with HIV

Inaction by US pharmaceutical corporation Gilead to follow through on its so-called ‘access initiative’ leaves people unable to access a vital drug to treat a deadly infection. 
 Press Release - 27 Jun 2019
 
Martha, a pseudonym, is a 27-year-old woman living in the Malakal Protection of Civilian (PoC) site, in north-east South Sudan [ © MSF / Igor Barbero ]
Access to Healthcare

“There is not enough water; the community is too big here.”

Martha* has lived in the UN Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Malakal, South Sudan since 2014.   Stories from the Frontline - 26 Jun 2019
 
Increased insecurity in Mali has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis © Lamine Keita/MSF
Access to Healthcare

Mali: Unprecedented levels of violence affecting populations in the central region

The high level of insecurity, mainly in the central region of the country, has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
 Article - 24 Jun 2019