Testimonies
Lebanon
“All I want is to be able to live decently”
In our clinic in Hermel, in the northern part of the Bekaa Valley, the number of Lebanese patients with non-communicable diseases requesting our services more than doubled between 2019 and 2020.
Malawi
Malawi is overwhelmed by second wave of COVID-19
Fabrice Weissman, who is a member of the MSF COVID-19 response team in Malawi, describes the situation in Malawi.
Lebanon
“At the end of the month, there’s no money left for medicine”
Read the story of Ahmed, a Syrian refugee who lives with his family in an informal tented settlement in the outskirts of Arsal, in the Bekaa Valley.
Mozambique
Trying to survive a three-year nightmare in Mozambique
Caroline Gaudron, strategic support manager for MSF in Mozambique, describes the chaos and challenges for people trying to survive, having fled extreme violence in the province.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
New strategies at work in eleventh Ebola outbreak
In an interview, Guyguy Manangama who is leading MSF's Ebola response in Équateur province, describes the eleventh outbreak, which has lower levels of mortality than the previous outbreak.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Intercommunal violence in Ituri : “Help my community at all costs”
“Djapan” * is 30 years old and works as a community health educator for MSF at the displaced persons’ site of the Drodro parish, in the Ituri province. Here is his testimony.
Lebanon
“I needed to make myself useful to overcome the panic”
MSF psychologist Sara Tannouri looks back at the blast that devastated her home city of Beirut, Lebanon two months ago and its impact on people’s mental wellbeing, including her own.
South Sudan
How cycles of violence impede access to basic medical care in Jonglei State, Sou
In August 2020, a new wave of violence shook northeastern South Sudan, causing an influx of seriously injured people to Pieri Hospital in Jonglei State. Jean-Nicolas Dangelser, MSF emergency coordinator, looks back on these events, which illustrate the problems of inter-community violence and access to healthcare in the region.
Mediterranean Sea
On 1 September, the Sea-Watch 4 was assigned a port of safety
MSF, together with Sea-Watch, has been back at sea in the central Mediterranean since 15 August, on board the ship the Sea-Watch 4. Finally, on 1 September, 11 days after the first rescue the Sea-Watch 4, was allocated a place of safety, in the closest country.
Syria
“In Al-Hol camp, almost no healthcare is available”
A humanitarian crisis continues to unfold in northeast Syria, as an already devastated area in which 700,000 people are internally displaced, copes with the spread of COVID-19, water shortages, social unrest and a collapsed healthcare system.