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Earthquake in Chile: Supporting hospitals, organising mobile clinics, sending in more supplies by plane

Monday, March 8, 2010. Ten days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile, the...

Afghanistan: Providing badly needed health care in Helmand Province

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One pill when the sun rises and one when it sets

As the sun rises in Homa Bay, in western Kenya’s Nyanza Province, Pamela gets her two-year-old son Pascal dressed and ready for the day. At seven o’clock she sits with her husband Charles and father, mother and son all take their...

05/12/2008 Kenya

Listening to HIV positive children in Zimbabwe

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) helps care for over 7,000 HIV positive kids in Zimbabwe. Over 60% of those are already on ARV treatment.

28/10/2008 Zimbabwe

Patients' testimonies

22/07/2008 Ethiopia

Gaining acceptance for mental healthcare in Darfur

Musa was chained naked to a tree stump for five years as an act of love. In Darfur, Sudan, as in many regions of the world where treatment for psychiatric illness is seldom understood, nor available, protecting a man from...

21/07/2008 Sudan

Sheleme’s Story

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are currently running outreach therapeutic programs in the district of Shashemene in the Oromiya region, Ethiopia. Patients affected by severe malnutrition are being screened by MSF medical...

13/07/2008 Ethiopia

Testimonies from Tal

The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the border region between Bangladesh and Rakhine State in western Myanmar (formerly Burma). Their accounts of life in Myanmar include severe human rights abuses: restrictions on movement...

10/06/2008 Bangladesh

Surviving in the Chaos - Stories from Darfur

A third of Darfuris live in displaced camps. This means about 2.5 million people.

27/05/2008 Sudan

"Eight months ago, I fell sick..."

Omar is 39 years old. Suffering from multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis, he has been under the MSF team at Zougdidi since last July. Two months after starting his treatment, he was able to leave hospital to continue being...

18/03/2008 Georgia

Gaza - MSF patients tell their stories

Nour, Naël and Naima suffer from painful, disabling wounds and were not properly treated. They have entered the MSF post-operative care programs.

13/03/2008 Palestinian Territories