Meet the Steriplus - a machine that helps us treat medical waste more responsibly in two pilot projects in Iraq. #medicalwaste #environment #health #doctorswithoutborders

💜What do you hope for your patients? - We asked this to the staff of the Lavender House clinic in the Mathare area of Nairobi. The clinic provides free, patient-centered medical and #mentalhealth care for survivors of sexual violence. Here’s what they said. #doctorswithoutborders #kenya #health #survivors #healthworkers #nairobi

A day with the mobile medical unit in Reynosa, Mexico: In an area we visit, many of the hundreds of people there live in makeshift shelters, waiting and stranded due to Title 42. This xenophobic policy disguised as public health protection has been used to authorize expulsions from the US to either border cities in Mexico or countries of origin. In Mexico, for people seeking safety there’s limited access to basic services and there are constant threats to violence. It’s here they wait with uncertainty and fear. #mexico #haiti #title42 #migration #health #doctorswithoutborders #reynosa

MSF is supporting the first ever hepatitis E vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak. It’s happening in South Sudan, and it’s the first time anywhere in the world that the only available hep E vaccine is being used in a large scale campaign. The fight against this neglected disease has been long and frustrating. MSF is carrying out this campaign with the South Sudan Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization. MSF’s Johnstone Vusena gives an update on why this is a major milestone. #goodnews #publichealth #hepatitis #southsudan #health Music: Aesthetic- Tollan Kim/TikTok

On #MentalHealthDay, Fatima* in Yemen told us there is hope. "Yes for sure there is. I restored my self-confidence." Fatima* (name changed for privacy) suffered from severe hallucinations and constantly heard voices that made her cry, scream and act violently with her children. Sometimes, she couldn't even recognize them. She went through a divorce due to her mental health condition and moved from her husband’s house in Sana’a to her parents' house in Hajjah. Her siblings took her for treatment in a clinic, but it closed after a while. Then she heard about the @msf_yemen clinic in Hajjah. "My mental health deteriorated after the death of my father...I could not be a mother to my children or a sister to my siblings. I was a hopeless case. No one accepted me. I sat in the dark most of the time, and it was an absolute headache for my family. I turned their joy into sorrow on any occasion.” Fatima receives both psychological support and medical treatment provided by a psychologist and a doctor. She also participates in the women's group sessions organized in the Day Care Center launched by MSF in April 2022. "These sessions provided me with information and helped me rely on myself. I became an independent woman after having depended on people for so long. I pray, read the Quran and exercise. I also help my mother and siblings with housework and take care of my children,” she says. Photo: Jinane Saad/MSF #doctorswithoutborders #mentalhealth #worldmentalhealth #worldmentalhealthday2022 #yemen

🔺The Ugandan Ministry of Health has confirmed 43 cases of Ebola and reported 29 deaths so far... Our emergency teams are responding. 🔺The last Ebola outbreak in Uganda was in 2019. Ebola is a serious and often deadly viral disease, and its symptoms can range from fever to kidney and liver failure to internal and external bleeding. 🔺Here are four things you need to know about the current outbreak #doctorswithoutborders #ebola #Uganda #outbreak #emergencymedicine #health

We are midwives…doctors…nurses…public health advocates…humanitarians. Our priority is preventing the consequences of unsafe abortions. Repeating what we believe: safe abortion care is essential health care. #safeabortion #internationalsafeabortionday #abortion #health #doctorswithoutborders

Following the catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, our teams launched three mobile clinics in Charsadda district—in villages located next to riverbanks. ⠀ The houses in Miaonlay village have been partially or completely destroyed, and people are now facing outbreaks of waterborne diseases. ⠀ In the last week, MSF medical teams have seen 983 patients in Charsadda district with respiratory tract infections, eye infections, acute diarrhea, severe skin infections, and chronic diseases. #Pakistan #PakistanFloods #Health #MobileClinics #DoctorsWithoutBorders

An account from our staff member, Akeela, who has been directly affected by the flooding in Pakistan: "I was part of MSF's emergency team providing support to the communities and my community was one of them. All the houses in my village, including my house, are still in water and they will take up to a month to completely dry out." ⠀ #Pakistan #PakistanFloods #Staff #Health #MobileClinic #CleanWater #DoctorsWithoutBorders

Besides mobile clinics, a big part of the program in northern Honduras is group therapy for adolescents - answering their questions about sexual and reproductive health issues and addressing mental health needs. #HealthCare #MentalHealth #Honduras #DoctorsWithoutBorders

Pakistan Flooding - our teams saw villages completely underwater. Sometimes you can only spot the top of a house. Many people have lost everything and are sleeping in tents by the roadside. The floodwater they may drink is contaminated. Toilets have been destroyed or are filled with mud making them unusable, and floodwater is stagnant. All this will have consequences for people’s health. MSF has been present for a long-time in Pakistan, specifically in the provinces of Balochistan, Sind, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Teams are on the ground providing primary health care, drinking water, and essential supplies. #Pakistan #Pakistanfloods #flooding #Balochistan #disaster #emergency #health #doctorswithoutborders

An estimated 80,000 people fled their homes after conflict broke out last year in the community of Tambura. Many survivors living in displacement camps still haven’t found their loved ones, others feel too unsafe to retrieve their family members’ bodies. ⠀ MSF teams provided community-based mental health care in and around displacement camps to normalize talking about the psychological problems people were facing and to offer outlets of support for those who needed it. #MentalHealth #Displacement #SouthSudan #DoctorsWithoutBorders