We have started a wide-scale distribution of hygiene products that targets 8,000 families in IDP camps in north Idlib. The teams provide technical support on alert verifications and organize the triage of patients at the call center’s level. An MSF team provided on-the-job training to the MoH staff with a focus on IPC, patient flows, and triage protocols. We also started support activities in Guediawaye district, a northern suburb of Dakar, on surveillance, community engagement, and IPC standards at health facilities. In partnership with local health authorities in Eshowe, we set up 35 medicine pickup points in communities. In late May 2020 MSF deployed medical response teams (MRT) to support the Ministry of Public Health in its COVID-19 testing strategy across Lebanon. In Mafraq we are preparing for the resumption of face-to-face consultations in our mental health project but will continue remote consultations for patients who are not able or willing to come. We have coordinated with state health authorities to provide technical IPC support where needed. MSF has carried out COVID-19 screening of DRTB and HIV patients in its private independent clinic and in an outpatient department co-managed with India’s national TB program. In order to limit the risk of transmission, the general strategy adopted is to avoid big vaccination sites and to divide the target areas into smaller zones, running activities on a longer timeframe. MSF staff have assisted with limiting infection spread through contact tracing (physical and telephonic), the development and dissemination of health promotion materials, and by implementing various strategies for decongesting health care facilities. In Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa we have suspended cutaneous leishmaniasis consultations and are reducing or suspending activities in some projects as a temporary measure to protect against COVID-19 exposure. This is obvious in many of the countries with the highest death tolls—including in the United States, India, Brazil, and Mexico. However, it is possible to have your gift directed toward Doctors Without Borders COVID-19 Crisis Fund. In Bangui MSF has also launched shielding activities for people living with HIV in four outpatient treatment centers, targeting at least 7,500 people. We are also supporting the MoH to set up and manage isolation centers in East Darfur, South Kordofan, and Gedaref states. In Boa Vista, the number of COVID-19 cases is decreasing. We are also providing training on infection control for health facilities. In Adjumani district, in the North, an MSF team intervened to improve living conditions in a transit center used to quarantine and test refugees, where conditions were particularly poor. Immokalee, Florida, June 26, 2020— Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has completed the handover of its COVID-19 testing and public health program for farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida, to the county health department and local organizations. Teams are also conducting community health promotion and education activities. A similar situation is observed in other COVID-19 centers managed by the MoH or other organizations in Haiti. Its activities have continued since the start of COVID-19 with the exception of pediatric surgery, which was suspended due to the challenges associated with sending surgical teams that require regular rotations during the global pandemic. The preliminary results are being shared with partner organisations and health authorities. Most recently in Karakalpakstan, MSF has used local radio and television channels to promote COVID-19 prevention messaging. COVID-19 is a new viral disease that affects the respiratory system The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020. In projects in the provinces, we continue to run several measles vaccination campaigns for children until 15 years old (at the moment in Bangassou, Carnot, Bossangoa). In addition, we are raising awareness among communities where we work (Omugo refugee settlement, HIV peer groups in Arua, youth communities in Kasese, and fishing communities near lake George) and distribute masks to patients and staff in MSF-supported health structures and PPE to medical staff working with COVID-19 patients. By giving to our COVID-19 Crisis Fund, you can help. In Masisi, in North Kivu, we set up an isolation circuit at the Nyabiondo Reference Health Center and a 20-bed isolation unit at the Masisi General Reference Hospital. In Hargeisa, as part of a task force of NGOs, we are providing support to the MoH of Somaliland to set up a COVID-19 center. Following a successful week of training of health staff in Freetown, we are working with the MoH’s psychosocial lead to ensure the knowledge is shared in all the districts of the country. In Peru, MSF launched a 3-months intervention to support the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 activities in the Amazon region. MSF is now operating its mental health project remotely, talking to patients on the phone and providing two-month drug supplies when necessary. COVID-19 is more dangerous for elderly people or people suffering from other infections or ailments. We adapted the patient circuit and triage at the facilities we assist and implemented water and sanitation services to minimize the risk of infections. Our COVID-19 response plan includes assisting with medical supplies and staff recruitment as well as strengthening triage, diagnosis, treatment, IPC, and more in Amazonas, Anzoátegui, Bolívar, Sucre, and the Capital District. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. COVID-19 is demonstrating how policy decisions of social exclusion, reduced access to free healthcare and increased inequality will now be felt by all of us. A small team from the international humanitarian medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders has been in Immokalee for the past few weeks assisting with the local response to COVID-19.. Doctors Without Borders normally operates in about 60 countries around the world, often ones that are famine-stricken or war torn. MSF also seeks to ensure that any new treatments or vaccines developed to respond to COVID-19 are accessible, affordable, and available to all. My Story Donations Dear Friends, Thank you for visiting our fundraising page, and joining us to support the lifesaving mission of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)! In Beira we assisted in the installation of two isolation centers, 24 de Julho (100 beds) and Marazul (33 beds) and provide support for the follow-up of HIV patients with COVID-19 at the emergency isolation unit of the main hospital. We have also strengthened measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the health facilities we support in Bamenda, Kumba, Muyuka, Mamfe, and Widikum and are providing logistical and training support to the main hospital in Tiko (District hospital), Limbe (Regional and District hospital) and Buea (Buea regional hospital and Mount Mary hospital). Donate now to help us respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies around the world. MSF has also been helping local health facilities in Erbil and Dohuk with technical and logistical support and staff training on IPC. We also did health promotion in two IDP centers in Metuge. In Taiz governate we have adapted IPC measures and patient and triage flows to protect staff and patients in our Mother and Child hospital in Taiz Houban. Our health promotion teams reached about 10,000 people with sensitization activities led in the community. In the Far North, patient flow and infection prevention and control measures have been adapted in both the regional hospital of Maroua and in the Mora hospital, where MSF has been present since 2015. The logistics team is also speeding up the construction of a new TB Hospital. In the east we rehabilitated an 18-bed provisional treatment site at the regional health center in Fada and identified isolation units in all MSF-supported medical structures in the area. In Laylan camp, Kirkuk governorate, we are mobilizing a 20-bed caravan isolation and treatment facility and continue to implement triage measures for any suspected COVID-19 patients and raise awareness about prevention measures. Now doctors from around the world are coming to help fight the COVID-19 crisis on the Navajo Nation, including Doctor’s Without Borders (MSF). The measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus are affecting regular health services like routine immunization and nutrition programs. In Homa Bay county MSF has provided three months of antiretroviral treatments to patients to limit travel and exposure at hospitals. MSF also provides water trucking in the camp, as the quantity and quality of water doesn’t meet the needs. ‘I saw the need’: Doctors Without Borders fights COVID in Houston nursing homes By Emily Foxhall, Staff writer 9/10/2020 U.S. COVID-19 cases cross 11 million as pandemic intensifies We continue to pursue awareness-raising efforts as well through sensitization activities on the radio and community health workers and we conducted a survey of knowledge, attitude, practice, belief, and emotions of the population with regard to COVID-19. This hospital was designated by the MoH as the referral facility for COVID-19 treatment. In northeast Delhi, a new intervention was planned for mid-September to screen the homeless population for COVID-19 and TB, and refer them for testing and treatment. MSF teams are in touch with the federal MoH and support the preparedness of a response including infection prevention control measures, setting up treatment center, trainings for MSF and MoH staff, health promotion, and basic logistics. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, and has spread globally in the past months. Our teams are responding to the coronavirus emergency on multiple fronts—caring for patients, offering health education and mental health support, and providing training for vital infection control measures in health facilities around the world. Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) DRC East Africa & Great Lakes. In nearby Wajir county, our teams have organized training for health care workers. Learn more about MSF's response in our Responding to COVID-19: MSF Global Accountability Report. MSF is working closely with health authorities in Norte de Santander, and Tumaco to support the local response. Our activities are evolving on a daily basis, and teams are working on epidemic preparedness in practically all our medical projects. As of July 21, the COVID-19 treatment center had admitted 34 patients (30 confirmed and 4 suspected). Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) treats people where the need is greatest. By Reuters • 21 August 2020 . We also are dealing with the consequences of global shortages of medical supplies, in particular personal protective equipment for health care staff. We help people threatened by violence, neglect, natural disasters, epidemics and health emergencies Together with state health authorities, we are conducting a large-scale community sensitization campaign on COVID-19. In Tumaco we are carrying out medical and mental health activities in the city’s two public hospitals. This can happen by breathing in infected droplets, or by touching with your hands a surface on which droplets have landed, and then touching your eyes, nose, or mouth later. Screening activities are resuming this week, after a long suspension due to COVID-related restrictions and a lack of protective gear. In Siblin, in southern Lebanon, MSF is runs the medical services of the UNRWA’s Siblin Isolation Site. MSF is prioritizing continuity of quality care for essential services for children and adults with TB, in collaboration with the MoH and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSPP) via existing MSF programs focused on diagnosis, treatment, and contact tracing. In Mora, an MSF team constructed an eight-bed isolation ward in the district hospital and similar support has now started in neighboring health centers. We're also conducting extensive awareness-raising activities on how people can protect themselves and prevent the spread of the virus, and we've added COVID-19 protection measures and isolation areas in most of the facilities we support across the country. In Tripoli, MSF continues providing medical and humanitarian assistance to migrants and refugees in one detention center, while other facilities have been emptied or closed. We are also supporting the emergency medical service’s 24/7 call center and response teams in five communes of the city to strengthen the MoH’s response capacity. As MSF scales up its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we … In Athens, we collaborate with the Third Clinic of Internal Medicine of Athens University by providing psychological support to frontline health workers and COVID-19 patients and their relatives. If you wish to do so or have any questions, please contact us at (888) 392-0392 or donations@newyork.msf.org. In Gaza we have so far observed a small number of confirmed cases, though we are still concerned about the ability of the health system to manage an outbreak. Beyond Tripoli, we continue to work in four detention centers (in Khoms, Zliten, Zintan, and Zuwara) to provide first aid to people disembarked in Libya and primary health care and referrals to migrants and refugees in Bani Walid. Our understanding of this new coronavirus and COVID-19 is still evolving. In Las Anod, Galkayo, and Baidoa, where MSF was already running medical activities, we have put in place hygiene and preventive measures to protect our frontline staff, including trainings on IPC, triage, and identification of COVID-19 symptoms. A health team from Doctors Without Borders has been dispatched to the Navajo Nation to help the tribe’s struggle with a rate of coronavirus infections that’s higher than any state in America. Learn more about the coronavirus and MSF's response >>. In Mariinka Rayon, Donetsk region, an MSF mobile team provides screening and home-based care for people suspected of having COVID-19 and those with mild symptoms in order to prevent health facilities from being overwhelmed. In Agok, MSF modified an ambulance to be used to transport confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases and work on an isolation ward is ongoing. All patients are now screened for COVID-19 at the entrance of our health clinics and hospital. Doctors Without Borders, however, said it will maintain some programs at the hospital and at the 39 other projects it supports throughout the country. At the Sheikh Zayyed Hospital, where we were already providing training and donations, we have now started triage, an inpatient department (20 beds, expandable) and an intensive care unit (6 beds, expandable). Geneva —Ahead of a critical meeting at the World Trade Organization (WTO) tomorrow — and against the backdrop of COVID-19 cases surging globally — the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) urged all countries to act in solidarity and build consensus around the landmark proposal by India and South Africa to waive … COVID-19 had killed more than one million people, Responding to COVID-19: MSF Global Accountability Report, Donate now to help us respond to the coronavirus pandemic, facility set up in a converted sports hall. These policies are the enemy of our collective health. There is also a risk of supply shortages due to a lack of production of generic drugs and difficulties to import essential drugs due to lockdowns, reduced production of basic products, exportation stops, or the repurposing and stocking of drugs and material for COVID-19. In all projects, MSF has put in place all necessary preventative measures to mitigate the risk of our facilities becoming part of the chain of transmission. Our teams have implemented COVID-19 preparedness measures in all our projects in the regions of Zinder (Zinder and Magaria), Maradi (Maradi and Madarounfa), Agadez, and Diffa. MSF continues to provide pediatric care in Anka general hospital (with new criteria to reduce services to essential cases only) and is providing technical support in the hospital to establish isolation zones, IPC protocols, and adapted triage and patient flow systems. Nursing home deaths make up more than 30 percent of the state’s total coronavirus fatalities since March. If there is no visible dirt on your hands, an alcohol-based gel is also a good option. We have now restarted surgeries. There are also doing mobile clinics in the Aquidauana urban area and we are supporting the activities at the local hospital. While they will leave some supplies behind, it’s a blow to efforts to ensure proper COVID-19 care in a vulnerable area. In cooperation with a team of the Basque health authorities in Spain we are treating severely ill patients in the hospitals of Tarapoto, Huánuco and Tingo María while also providing support to primary health centres in the provinces of Datem de Marañón and Condorcanqui through donations and training. MSF activities in Libya have been impacted by restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 response, which have also increased humanitarian needs in the country. We also trained community health workers and reinforced COVID-19 screening at the entrance of the Mora district hospital. Suspected cases of COVID-19 are admitted in a tent and if the positive cases are transferred to government hospitals in the area. Other campaigns aim to train frontline workers (such as bus drivers, internal security forces, and community-based organizations,) on IPC measures and precautions to help them reduce the risks of viral transmission in their day-to-day activities. CARACAS, Venezuela -- The humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders is pulling out of a hospital in a Venezuela n slum that had been one of the nation’s best-equipped to treat COVID-19 patients, saying government restrictions made work impossible. A malaria contingency plan is in place to ensure continuity of malaria treatment during the upcoming season and minimize the impact on the hospital. In Port-au-Prince, our teams have also supported the Chancrelles hospital in Cité Soleil, the Saint Michel health center in Martissant, and the State University hospital of Haiti in implementing IPC measures, triage, and isolation. In Guerrero, MSF teams resumed mobile clinics providing primary health care and psychosocial support to victims of violence. By entering in your mobile telephone number and checking the box above, you agree to receive SMS notifications from Doctors Without Borders short code 96329. The high level of supportive and intensive care required to treat patients with COVID-19 places real challenges to even the most advanced health care systems. While curfew and lockdown measures further reduce the already extremely limited ability of migrants and refugees to access basic services, MSF participated in interagency food distributions in Tripoli and offered medical and humanitarian assistance to migrants and refugees living in urban settings. MSF is the sole health care provider in Nduta refugee camp, which hosts 75,000 Burundian refugees. One of Doctors Without Borders’ answer is What Can You Do About COVID-19?, a children’s activity book with artwork by internationally published author and artist Elbert Or. In Hajjah governorate we are helping with preventive measures in hospitals, including the set-up of screening points for patients and support to set up an isolation unit in Abs hospital, as well as training of staff on symptoms and case definition, case management, and IPC. As a mitigation measure for the spread of COVID-19, patients with NCDs have been provided medicine for three months in Embu county, where MSF supports the five county-level hospitals with triage and screening of patients and boosting IPC in 11 health facilities. This pandemic threatens the lives of people around the world, and presents even greater risks in countries with weak or fragile health systems. Alongside the MRTs, MSF’s project-based Rapid Response Teams (part of the UN-led multi-sectoral emergency scheme) are also part of the testing campaign in their project areas, notably in Tripoli and the Bekaa Valley. People can also be infected if they breathe in droplets from a person with coronavirus who coughs out or exhales droplets. The claim: Doctors Without Borders is dispatching physicians to the US. Our existing projects in Ninewa, Diyala, Kirkuk, and Baghdad have also reinforced their triage capacity and continue to support ICP and refer cases to MoH hospitals according to the protocol established by health authorities. We adapted our activities to help contain the spread of the virus. As we get ready to enter the seasonal malaria peak, our priority is now to lay the groundwork for these campaigns, which will have to be carried out in accordance with COVID-19 prevention measures (door-to-door when possible, and with strict IPC measures when it’s not). We continue trainings and health education sessions on infection prevention, case management, and proper use of PPE for staff and patients and caretakers. In Mosul, we have turned our post-operative care center into a temporary COVID-19 facility, where we works with local health authorities to facilitate the treatment of mild and moderate cases. On July 17 a decision was made to decrease capacity from 60 beds to 30 beds due to progressively lower admission numbers both in our partner hospital and across the Western Cape province. MSF is working with local authorities in many of the countries where we have medical projects to help prepare for the impact of COVID-19. MSF teams worked with migrant farm workers in Florida; people experiencing homelessness in New York; Native Americans –particularly Navajo Nation and Pueblo peoples– in the southwestern states of New Mexico and Arizona; clinical and non-clinical staff in nursing homes in Michigan and Texas; and a range of people and communities in need in Puerto Rico. Also at the northern border, MSF continue its intervention in Nuevo Laredo by assessing and implementing IPC in all migrant shelters, where more than 200 people are staying in confinement. In Patna, Bihar, MSF works in a facility set up in a converted sports hall to care for mild to moderate COVID-19 patients, to support the Nalanda Medical College Hospital. In the Sud department we have provided this support to Immaculate Conception hospital in Les Cayes, the Port-à-Piment health center, and the community hospital of Port-Salut, as well as support for patient referrals. 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