Lassa Fever
Surviving Lassa fever in Nigeria: the stories of Ngozi and Oluchi
Lassa fever is a haemorrhagic fever that causes serious damage to various organs, reducing the body’s ability to function. The virus is contagious and can spread from person to person via bodily fluids, including saliva, urine, blood, and vomit. The disease affects 100,000 to 300,000 people every year across Western Africa and causes around 5,000 deaths. Last year in Nigeria, there were 8,978 suspected cases and 1,227 confirmed cases of Lassa fever (Nigerian Centre for Disease Control). Article - 22 Jan 2024
Access to Healthcare
Sudan: Population of Khartoum State deprived of lifesaving services, warns MSF
Health care is on the verge of collapse in Khartoum. Over the past few months, the population in the city and wider Khartoum State has become increasingly cut-off from health care. Very few medical facilities remain functional, depriving three million inhabitants of lifesaving medical services. Article - 18 Jan 2024
Sudan
Sudan: Escalating needs for more than half a million people in Wad Madani
In a region where healthcare and essential medicine were already extremely limited, displaced populations are now suffering from growing health demands, stemming from direct and indirect effects of violence. Article - 15 Jan 2024
Diphtheria
Guinea: An almost-forgotten disease makes a resurgence in West Africa
Article - 12 Jan 2024
Gaza - Israel War
Evacuation orders and heavy bombing around Gaza’s hospitals leaves few healthcare options for civilians
The amount of safe space for organisations to provide healthcare to people is now virtually non-existent. Constant evacuation orders and attacks on health facilities have repeatedly forced organisations such as MSF to evacuate hospitals and leave patients behind. Article - 12 Jan 2024
Lebanon
Lebanon: MSF provides healthcare to people displaced by military escalation along southern border
Update - 11 Jan 2024
Gaza - Israel War
Gaza: MSF condemns strike on shelter that killed staff member’s five-year-old daughter
MSF condemns in the strongest possible terms the January 8 strike on an MSF shelter, which led to the death of the five-year-old daughter of an MSF staff member. Article - 9 Jan 2024
War and conflict
MSF survey sheds new light on scale and intensity of ethnic violence in West Darfur
A retrospective mortality survey carried out among Sudanese refugees in Chad by Epicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières’ medical research and epidemiology centre, documents the appalling scale of the wave of violence that swept through the region last June, while atrocities have continued in recent months in the region of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur. Article - 8 Jan 2024
Gaza - Israel War
Palestinians in Hebron, West Bank, live in constant fear as violence surges
Update - 4 Jan 2024
Gaza - Israel War