The year in photos 2019

Violence and neglect in the remote northeast of South Sudan

MSF nurse Bárbara García and Nyamach, a young patient, play with a balloon made from a surgical glove in the inpatient ward of MSF’s hospital in Ulang, South Sudan.

Mobile clinics in Ponta Gea area of Beira, Mozambique.

After Cyclone Idai devastated Mozambique in spring 2019, MSF immediately began running mobile clinics in the hardest-hit areas of Beira city. Here, MSF peer educator Aida Joao cares for a child suffering from suspected pneumonia.

Mozambique 2019 © Pablo Garrigos/MSF

An MSF mobile team walks to access a village cut off by damage caused by Cylone Idai in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe 2019 © MSF

MSF's delivery services at the Birth centre, Rafik Hariri University Hospital Campus,

Baby Alaa has just been born, weighing 6.6 pounds and measuring 20 inches, at the MSF birth center in Rafik Hariri University hospital, Lebanon. Midwife Josianne and Nurse Nagham assisted his mother in the delivery, and both mother and baby are in good health.

Lebanon 2019 © Severine Sajous

Emergency North East Syria: Fleeing and Seeking Refuge - Displaced Population

The Qados family takes shelter from the extreme heat in the shade of a truck on the outskirts of Tal Tamer, northeastern Syria. They ﬂed their home in Ras Al Ain in Hasakah province amid bombardment by the Turkish military in October, leaving with very few belongings.

Syria 2019 © Jake Simkin

Cholera response in Khamer, Amran hospital

A mother and children inside MSF’s Khamer cholera treatment center in Yemen’s Amran governorate. Cholera is endemic in Yemen, but years of conﬂict have shattered the health system and disrupted sanitation services, contributing to major outbreaks of the waterborne disease.

Yemen 2019 © Agnes Varraine-Leca/MSF

Deterioration of humanitarian situation for the displaced in northern Abs

A girl holds her young brother in a displaced people’s camp in northern Abs, Yemen.

Yemen 2019 © Al Hareth Al Maqaleh

Measles vaccination in Mai-Ndombe Province

Parents and children wait to receive measles vaccinations in Etebe health area, Mai-Ndombe province, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Democratic Republic of Congo 2019 © Franck Ngonga

MSF supports the Ebola Transit Center in Bunia

Staff members dress in personal protective equipment to enter the high-risk zone at the Ebola transit center in Bunia.

Democratic Republic of Congo 2019 © Pablo Garrigos/MSF

Migrants and refugees in Zintan and Gharyan detention centers in Libya

Detained refugees look out through a gap in the gate at the Zintan detention center, Libya.

Libya 2019 © Jérôme Tubiana/MSF

Medical Team Leader, Stefanie, helps rescued people remove their life jackets as they come on board Ocean Viking.

On October 18, 2019, the search and rescue ship Ocean Viking, operated by MSF and SOS MEDITERRANEE, responded to a boat in distress on the Mediterranean Sea. One-hundred four people, including 40 minors and two pregnant women, were brought safely on board.

Mediterranean Sea 2019 © Stefan Dold/MSF

In February 2019, MSF launched an emergency intervention in the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras, just across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, to care for some 1,700 migrants and asylum seekers traveling by caravan.

Mexico 2019 © Juan Carlos Tomasi/MSF

A team of MSF health promoters goes door-to-door in Nueva Capital, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to inform residents of MSF services in local clinics, including care to victims of violence.

Honduras 2019 © Christina Simons

At least 1.4 million Venezuelans have ﬂed to neighboring Colombia. They have left a country where, over the last few years, most people had no access to medicines and essential health services were entirely out of reach.

World Refugee Day: Nunahar and her husband Abdul Zoleel at the Kutupalong field hospital

Nunahar and her husband, Abdul Zoleel, pose for a portrait at MSF’s Kutupalong ﬁeld hospital, one of the many health facilities we run for the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh after ﬂeeing targeted violence in neighboring Myanmar.

Twenty-seven-year-old Rohingya woman Sawkina recovers from a broken leg. Although she was born and raised in Malaysia, she does not have Malaysian nationality. As a divorced woman in a conservative society, she has to rely on herself and her parents to support her and her 13-year-old daughter.

Ahmed, 38, a Palestinian man shot and wounded by the Israeli army on May 14, 2018.

Health at risk in Haiti as crisis and violence worsen

At the MSF clinic in Boguila, Central African Republic (CAR), a doctor examines 10-month-old Ketira, who is suffering from a lung infection. MSF is the largest health care provider in CAR, a country fractured by violent conﬂict and lawlessness.

MSF: Johnson & Johnson should make TB drug available for all at $1/day

In April 2019, MSF staff demonstrated outside a shareholders meeting at Johnson & Johnson’s headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey, calling on the company to lower the cost of the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline to $1 per day.

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