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Mental Health

MSF provides psychological first aid to survivors of fatal sea crossing

MSF teams provide psychological aid to people who have been rescued from attempting the Mediterranean Sea crossing.
 - 3 Jun 2015
 
South Sudan

"The situation has been tense" - Dr Niamh in South Sudan

In the last few weeks South Sudanese  have been exposed to increased  levels of violence and fresh waves of displaced people are on the move.
 - 2 Jun 2015
 
Cholera

MSF concerned with the rapid spread of the cholera outbreak in Kenya

MSF together with Kenyan health authorities and other partners have been battling the cholera epidemic in Kenya since January. 
 Press Release - 2 Jun 2015
 
South Africa

Leading SA health organisations join fight for affordable medicines

Expanded coalition calls for urgent approval of the long-awaited National Policy on Intellectual Property.
 Press Release - 2 Jun 2015
 

Ebola accountability report: An unprecedented year

A report illustrating how MSF spent its money during the Ebola outbreak for the 2014 - 2015 period.
 Report - 1 Jun 2015
 

An unprecedented Ebola year

On 22 March 2014, an Ebola epidemic was officially declared in Guinea. Over the course of the next year, the virus would infect more than 25,000 people in nine countries and claim more than 10,000 lives, dwarfing all previous Ebola outbreaks.
 Briefing Document - 1 Jun 2015
 
Mental Health

Quake trauma: psychological first aid helps Nepalese rebuild their lives

MSF teams are running mental health activities to people affected by the two devastating earthquakes in Nepal. MSF psychologist Kamini Deshmukh explains that one of the main activities she does is ‘psychological first aid’. 
 Latest News - 1 Jun 2015
 
Migrants

TALK RADIO 702: Africa Day - Voices from the Camps

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa today launched a series of five powerful video testimonies from refugees and migrants displaced by April’s wave of xenophobic violence in Durban, KwaZulu Natal to displacement camps set up by local authorities.
 Latest News - 1 Jun 2015
 
Guinea-Bissau

“Simple diarrhoea can become a deadly disease for a child in Guinea-Bissau”

In November 2014, MSF launched a paediatric project in the region of Bafata in central Guinea- Bissau. Isabel Grovas, the MSF medical coordinator in charge of opening the project, discusses the situation.
 Fieldworkers Stories - 28 May 2015
 
Ethiopia

Ethiopia: New wave of refugees fleeing ongoing violence in South Sudan

As conflict continues between warring parties in South Sudan, thousands of civilians have fled, creating a new waves of displacement in Ethiopia
 Latest News - 28 May 2015