January 2012
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“Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in...”
– MSF general director Christopher Stokes. MSF is suspending operations in detention centers in Misrata, Libya, because detainees are being tortured and denied urgent medical care.
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“If nothing is done, it is highly likely that the 15,000 people currently on the...”
– Anja De Weggheleire, MSF’s medical coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where a pull-back by international donors is directly threatening the lives of thousands of people. Learn more.
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“I have worked with HIV-positive patients in many countries in central and...”
– Anja De Weggheleire, MSF’s medical coordinator in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the vast majority of people living with the AIDS virus are deprived of lifesaving treatment due to a withdrawal of international donor support and the lack of national prioritization of the crisis.
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“We scattered. They shot me in my thigh and my baby was hanging on my back. I...”
– Civilians continue to bear the brunt of extreme inter-communal violence in Jonglei state in South Sudan. A recurring characteristic of the attacks is their extreme violence.
This woman was treated by MSF in Pibor said she had fled to the bush with her husband, children, and 15 other family...
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“One of my patients was a young boy who had heart problems. He was not long for...”
– MSF nurse Mary Jo Frawley writes about working in Haiti after the earthquake in January 2010.
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“Within an hour, my bag was packed.”
– MSF nurse Mary Jo Frawley writes about being sent to Haiti days after the earthquake.
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“Before the earthquake, the situation was already difficult in Haiti. Now, there...”
– 32-year-old Olga, from the small room she shares with four other Haitians in Brazil. MSF teams have been monitoring the situation of Haitians in this small town, located at the border between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, since November. The Haitian asylum seekers first began arriving in Tabatinga in...
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“Hundreds of thousands of people still live under terrible conditions in...”
– MSF’s medical coordinator, Wendy Lai on conditions in Haiti two years after the earthquake.
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“Much of the capital’s health care infrastructure disappeared on January...”
– Gérard Bedock, MSF’s head of mission in Haiti. In the two years that have followed, MSF has built four emergency hospitals in the area affected by the earthquake, an area more than 2 million people call home.
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MSF Condemns Attacks On Aid Workers And Calls For... →
One week ago, a gunman killed Phillipe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhuo, two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) aid workers, while they were implementing emergency assistance projects in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Three months ago, MSF staff members Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut were abducted in the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya while providing emergency...
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A Doctor Returns to Somaliland
After 20 years...
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“There are several crisis situations evolving in different parts of South Sudan...”
– Parthesarathy Rajendran, MSF head of mission in South Sudan, on the renewed intercommunal violence in Jonglei State, South Sudan, that has forced thousands of families to flee into the bush, where they have no access to assistance, including medical care.
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“Thousands of people in Lekongole and Pibor fled in the last week and are now...”
– Parthesarathy Rajendran, MSF head of mission in South Sudan, on the renewed intercommunal violence in Jonglei State, South Sudan, that has forced thousands of families to flee into the bush, where they have no access to assistance, including medical care.
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December 2011
46 posts
Thank you.
From the conflict in South Sudan, to the ongoing cholera outbreak in Haiti, to civil war in Libya, 2011 was a year marked by crisis. Thank you for following our work here on Tumblr, your reblogs raise awareness for the victims of violence, drought, epidemics and other medical humanitarian emergencies.
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