Field news

Topic	Date	Location
Zambia: Measles vaccination campaign underway to immunise 600,000 children Mansa, Zambia – Médecins Sans Frontières teams are currently working alongside the Zambian health authorities to carry out a measles vaccination campaign with a target of almost 600,000 children. Médecins Sans Frontières launched...	24/05/2011	Zambia
Sudan: Médecins Sans Frontières assists 42 wounded following violent clashes in Abyei The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières is currently responding to the consequences of fighting in the Abyei region, in Sudan. Following violent clashes, the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital...	23/05/2011	Sudan
Côte d’Ivoire – in the western part of the country, people are still afraid "We left the village on February 28,” Honorine says. The fighting in western Ivory Coast had drawn close to their home, near Toulepleu, and she and her family decided they had no other choice. “We spent two weeks in the brush and...	23/05/2011	Ivory Coast
Côte d’Ivoire – Médecins Sans Frontières faces overwhelming needs in Abidjan The situation in Abidjan had been very tense until April 13, two days after the Gbagbo regime fell. Since that time, the improvement has been palpable. Some fighting broke out on May 3 and 4, in the Yopougon district, the...	23/05/2011	Ivory Coast
Suffering from chronic neglect in Kaabong, Uganda As light slowly betrays the darkness of a still night, the dying echoes of ululating women interlace with the crowing cocks that welcome the new dawn. A few hours later, Kaabong high street comes to life. A few shops emblazoned...	23/05/2011	Uganda
Update on Médecins Sans Frontières activities in Libya The general situation in Libya remains extremely tense and uncertain. In the country’s third city Misrata, the situation is very volatile: after the rebels claimed to have captured the city’s airport on Wednesday 11 May, the...	17/05/2011	Libya
Treating measles in a remote province of the Democratic Republic of Congo In March, the measles epidemic that has raged in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for more than six months reached the remote province of Maniema. Despite the logistical challenges, Médecins Sans Frontières teams are...	17/05/2011	Democratic Republic of Congo
Ivory Coast: Overwhelming emergency medical needs continue While the post-election violence that wracked communities in Ivory Coast ended almost a month ago in most of the country, emergency medical needs remain at critical levels. In Abidjan, health centres and hospitals are overwhelmed...	11/05/2011	Ivory Coast
Médecins Sans Frontières continues psychological services for earthquake and tsunami survivors Two months after the massive earthquake and tsunami in the northeast of Japan, a team of Médecins Sans Frontières Japanese psychologists are continuing to work with survivors as government-led recovery efforts expand across the...	11/05/2011	Japan
Cameroon: Médecins Sans Frontières treating cholera patients in Yaoundé Following the spread of a cholera epidemic in the capital city of Yaoundé in Cameroon, Médecins Sans Frontières opened a cholera treatment centre and provided care for hundreds of patients.	09/05/2011	Cameroon