MSF has been providing healthcare in Cabo Delgado province, one of the poorest and most isolated regions of Mozambique since February 2019. Early activities were rapidly disrupted by Cyclone Kenneth and replaced with emergency response to displacement and cholera.
Over one million people have been displaced by violence in Ituri since December 2017. About 200.000 are currently living in dire conditions on displaced people sites, in makeshift shelters, lacking food, clean water and access to health care.
Over the past year, measles has affected more than 310,000 people and killed over 6,000 in the DRC
Forty-seven nurses and midwives have returned home to Sierra Leone to take up jobs in hospitals and health centres across the country after successfully completing a two-year diploma in Ghana.
MSF emergency coordinator, Dr Tankred Stoebe, is currently travelling across Southeast Asia to assess how MSF can support health authorities and health facilities prepare for potential outbreaks of coronavirus (COVID-19).
One of the world's most common neurological diseases, epilepsy affects nearly 50 million people, but in low-income countries, more than 75 per cent of people with epilepsy do not have access to treatment.
MSF’s epidemiologists and infectious disease experts are following the fast-evolving development of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus
Today marks the first-ever World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day. It aims to gather support and build momentum for a decisive year of action against neglected tropical diseases . During the year, the WHO is expected to launch new goals to guide progress against NTDs until 2030.
In Moria camp, on the island of Lesvos, the Greek government is deliberately depriving at least 140 children with chronic, complex and life-threatening diseases of adequate medical care.
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