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
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 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
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 ]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf268877_medium.jpg?itok=p7Epv6ce ". 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
“No one was left” death and violence against the Rohingya in Rakhine State, Myanmar
Reports - 10 May 2019
Refugees, Migration and displacement