HIV/AIDS
5 key facts about MSF in Eswatini
As MSF prepares to leave the Shiselweni region after 16 years of work, its project in Nhlangano draws to a close. However, to ensure the continued success of the Shiselweni HIV & tuberculosis (TB) programme, MSF’s teams in Eswatini remain dedicated to working with the country’s Ministry of Health. Stories from the Frontline - 26 May 2023
Access to Healthcare
Sudan: “Humanitarian operations in many parts of the country may grind to a halt”
Dr Ahmed Abd-elrahman is a Sudanese doctor who has worked with MSF for more than 17 years, including assignments in Somalia, Pakistan, Libya. He is currently Director of Operations at MSF Brussels and is directly supporting MSF teams in Sudan. Stories from the Frontline - 26 May 2023
Malnutrition
Battling Measles amid ongoing crises in South Sudan
MSF teams have been working tirelessly to treat patients suffering from measles in health facilities across the country, as well as running vaccination campaigns. In 2022, MSF treated more than 1,782 patients with measles and vaccinated more than 170,000 children against the disease. Article - 26 May 2023
Attacks on medical care
MSF ‘shaken and appalled’ by looting of its premises in Sudan
Our efforts to scale up medical activities have been continually hampered by violence, aggressive armed incursions, looting or armed occupation of premises Press Release - 23 May 2023
Neglected Diseases
Noma: "There is ability in disability and there is nothing that we cannot do.”
Mulikat Okolanwon got noma as a child and was left severely disfigured. After several surgeries at Sokoto Noma Hospital in northern Nigeria, she started working in the hospital and went on to become a patient advocate, travelling abroad to raise awareness of the disease and sharing her story. Testimony - 22 May 2023
Neglected Diseases
Three survivors of noma, a disease that should no longer exist
Muhammadu, Mulikat and Dahiru have little in common. They were born in different corners of Nigeria and grew up in different circumstances and with different dreams. But one day, when they were still children, their lives and those of their relatives changed forever because of noma. Article - 22 May 2023
Surgery
Sudan: Building the capacity to do war surgery
Shahzid Majeed works as a surgical referent in one of MSF’s headquarters offices in Brussels. When MSF began scaling up our response to the current violence in Sudan, he joined the team to start emergency and surgical activities, alongside Sudanese doctors and volunteers, in a hospital in south Khartoum. Stories from the Frontline - 18 May 2023
Surgery
Sudan: 240 trauma patients treated in Khartoum in a week
An MSF team working alongside Sudanese staff and volunteers in one hospital in south Khartoum has treated 240 trauma patients in just over a week. Many of them have suffered gunshot wounds or injuries resulting from explosions, consistent with ongoing airstrikes and shelling in the built-up areas of the capital. Press Release - 18 May 2023
War and conflict
Medical supplies ready to move to areas of need in Sudan
A first shipment of 28 metric tons of aid supplies to support Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF’s) medical activities in Wad Madani and Khartoum arrived in Port Sudan today. Press Release - 17 May 2023
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