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Month in Focus December 2011

Video update on Médecins Sans Frontières activities in December 2011.

Month in Focus November 2011

Video update on Médecins Sans Frontières activities in November 2011.

Kate Geraghty /

Democratic Republic of Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo / 05.09.09

Z. aged 40 suffering from a fistula due to being raped by the Mai Mai rebels/militia in 2006 recuperates at the Heal Africa hospital in Goma. © Kate Geraghty.

A Congolese woman comforts her injured son who is recuperating and being treated by MSF doctors in the MSF-run Rutshuru hospital after being injured during the recent conflict in November 2008. © Kate Geraghty.

Portrait of a Congolese woman who is recuperating and being treated by MSF doctors in the MSF-run Rutshuru hospital after being injured during the recent conflict in November 2008. © Kate Geraghty.

MSF staff walk through the grounds of the MSF Nyanzale Health Program. The MSF team provides medical care to malnourished patients, sexual violence victims, TB patients, maternity, general emergency, mobile health clinics and the monitoring of maternal mortality of those living in the IDP camps. © Kate Geraghty.

Congolese women prepare their children to be weighed and measured for the nutrition program to guage their progress at the MSF France Nyanzale Health Program in North Kivu. © Kate Geraghty.

Portrait of Congolese pregnant women and new mothers with their babies in the maternity ward at the MSF France Nyanzale Health Program in North Kivu. © Kate Geraghty.

A Congolese man rides his pushbike past the many makeshift shelters in Mugunga 1 (IDP) internally displaced persons camp that currently has 28,000 IDP's, located approximately 15km from Goma in North Kivu. © Kate Geraghty.

Portrait of a Congolese man amongst the makeshift shelters in Mugunga 1 (IDP) internally displaced persons camp that currently has 28,000 IDP's, located approximately 15km from Goma in North Kivu. War has raged in Kivu for the past 15 years leaving a cortege of dead and wounded civilians with approximately 809,550 internally displaced people living with host families or in camps where such diseases as cholera are claiming lives due to the lack of sanitation, appropriate shelter and overcrowding. © Kate Geraghty.

The queue for food distribution in Mugunga 1 (IDP) internally displaced persons camp that currently has 28,000 IDP's, located approximately 15km from Goma in North Kivu. © Kate Geraghty.

The view of a IDP camp on the outskirts of Nyanzale in North Kivu. War has raged in Kivu for the past 15 years leaving a cortege of dead and wounded civilians with approximately 809,550 internally displaced people living with host families or in camps where such diseases as cholera are claiming lives due to the lack of sanitation, appropriate shelter and overcrowding. © Kate Geraghty.

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