Help Doctors Without Borders (MSF SnA) raise R250,000 for medical needs caused by conflict, disasters & epidemics

Help Doctors Without Borders (MSF SnA) raise R250,000 for medical needs caused by conflict, disasters & epidemics

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Our global network of principled professionals provides medical humanitarian care in more than 70 countries, adapting to the needs and realities of our patients to save lives and ease their suffering. Examples such as; In South Africa, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to provide care for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) patients and vulnerable migrants this includes mental health services, primary health care,mobile outreach testing units, health promotion & education, HIV counselling & testing, TB & Sexual Transmitted Infections (STI) Screening, pregnancy testing and condom distribution. In Mozambique, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, where escalating violence has displaced over half a million people. MSF is delivering general health and mental health service, building latrines and supporting cholera treatment centres. In Beira, we are working to reduce HIV-related sickness and death by delivering sexual and reproductive healthcare, including HIV testing, counselling, and family planning services, to vulnerable groups through mobile clinics. We also provide advanced HIV care at three health facilities in the city. Escalating violence in Nigeria, especially in the northern states of Zamfara and Borno, led to a deterioration in the humanitarian situation, with thousands more people displaced and cut off from healthcare. Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières continue to assist people affected by conflict and displacement across several states while maintaining a range of general and specialist healthcare programmes including a 72-bed therapeutic feeding centre treating severely malnourished children with medical complications. We also run a 65-bed paediatric hospital with a specialist intensive care unit, which is the only facility of its kind providing free healthcare in Borno. In Sierra Leone, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) focuses on maternal and paediatric care, with the aim of reducing the high rates of sickness and death among mothers and children under five. There is a critical shortage of medical staff, resulting in a lack of services for the most vulnerable groups. Our teams work to fill some of these gaps, providing healthcare for children under the age of five, pregnant women, and lactating mothers. We have staff in 13 peripheral health units in three chiefdoms (Gorama Mende, Wandor and Nongowa), and a hospital in Hangha, Kenema district, supporting intensive therapeutic feeding centres, general paediatric care, and malaria treatment. Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, MSF teams provided comprehensive, youth-friendly, sexual and reproductive health services to adolescents, in Mbare. We continue to provide health promotion activities at the clinics and youth centres. We also improved the provision of clean water to vulnerable communities in the city by rehabilitating and upgrading boreholes and drilling new ones. Despite the repeated upsurges in violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF) provided vital humanitarian and medical assistance in 16 of DRC’s 26 provinces. Our services included general and specialist healthcare, nutrition, vaccinations, surgery, paediatric and maternal care, medical and psychological support for victims of sexual violence and vulnerable people, as well as treatment and prevention activities for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and cholera.