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Snakebite

WHO launches strategy to cut snakebite deaths and disabilities in half

Snakebite is one of the world’s most neglected public health crises, which results in 100,000 deaths and 400,00 people left disabled each year. Press Release - 23 May 2019
 
Refugees, Migration and displacement

Many Central American Migrants Fleeing Violence Are Revictimized in Mexico

Videos and Photos - 21 May 2019
 
Access to Healthcare

Myanmar | Reaching remote communities

Videos and Photos - 20 May 2019
 
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Access to medicines

South Sudan: Antivenom, not frogs, needed to cure snakebite

MSF treats around 300 snakebite patients every year at its hospital in Agok, South Sudan, and many live in remote places meaning they have to travel long distances to seek healthcare. Project Update - 20 May 2019
 
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Access to Healthcare

Nigeria: Measles ‘we could not turn away the children.’

In this decade-long conflict, routine healthcare has been affected, including vaccinations, leaving children at risk of being infected. Article - 17 May 2019
 
Access to medicines

South Sudan: A remote hospital on the river

Videos and Photos - 16 May 2019
 
Yakong is a 36-year-old mother of seven. Her twins Both and Duoth – ‘first’ and ‘second’ in Nuer – were born in late March at MSF’s hospital in the town of Ulang, in northeastern South Sudan.
Access to Healthcare

South Sudan: New MSF hospital in Ulang assists people affected by violence and neglect

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started a stable project in the northeastern town of Ulang, close to the Ethiopian border in South Sudan’s Upper Nile region, to address the needs of people living in a remote and neglected area who have been affected by years of war and frequent bouts of intercommunal violence and who struggle to access medical care. Press Release - 13 May 2019
 
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Refugees, Migration and displacement

Bangladesh: giving birth in adversity

MSF neonatology team tackles challenges of the Rohingya humanitarian crisis while saving newborns Crisis Update - 13 May 2019
 
. The MSF tea team chats with community leaders and elders of Kurtunle village during the monthly tea team focus group meeting  [ © Susanne Doettling / MSF ]
Access to Healthcare

Ethiopia: Outreach to pastoralist Somali communities over sweet tea

Tea team meetings, focus group discussions and health promotion sessions help enhance our knowledge of the populations’ health needs, health seeking behaviour, and pastoralist movement patterns in Doolo Zone. Article - 12 May 2019
 
Epidemics

Ebola: pushed to the limit and beyond

Reports - 10 May 2019