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Russian Federation : 11 December 2012

Month in Focus - December 2012 | Chechnya – Coming To Terms With TB

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Month in Focus - December 2012 | Haiti: The Aftermath Of Hurricane Sandy

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Month in Focus - December 2012 | Congo – Yaws: Time To Pass On The Baton

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Month in Focus - December 2012 | South Sudan: A Hidden Crisis

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A Month in Focus - December 2012 | DRC: The Plight Of The Displaced

Sierra Leone : 07 December 2012

Photographs by Lynsey Adarrio

Foday - MSF ambulance driver

"I am Foday Kpaka, this is my 16th month for MSF as a driver. Ambulance driver; this is a life saving job, so you have to rush just to save these lives. The road conditions are very bad, sometimes, you got to run just to save these lives and, really, it's not easy."

Jeneba - Patient

"I feel pain from the back downwards. They said there was no sign of labour. Because I had once had a ceasarian section they said I should come here here to Gondama hospital. Thanks be to God that I had a safe ride in the ambulance. The nurse next to me talked to me nicely until we arrived in the hospital. He held my hand as we entered the hospital. The other nurses attended to me very fast. The other nurses attended to me very fast. They referred me last night to come to Gondama health centre to stay for three days and if the pain continues they’ll find another option. Whatever child God gives me, I will appreciate if he or she will live."

Betty - Obstetrician Gynecologist

"My name is Betty Raney and I’m 57 years old, I’m an obstetrician gynecologist from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. I’ve been here in Bo for five and a half months. I think its completely different here, the cases are different, the patients are different. Most of the case are much more severe and urgent and life threatening. Through our interventions here at GRC, we in the obstetrical unit, we have managed to reduce the maternal mortality rate in this Bo area by 61%. We don’t need a state of the art facility to achieve this goal, it doesn’t require a large investment in this area. The worst part is seeing the deaths and knowing that we cant save everybody. The best part of my job is feeling that I make a difference and just experience the gratitude that I get from my patients."

Foday - MSF ambulance driver

"Sometimes the patient is almost about to deliver. She shouts, shouts, shouts. The good part of the job is when we save patients, I come with the patient safely, no death. That’s the best thing, I feel so happy I have saved lives."

Democratic Republic of Congo : 13 November 2012

Month in Focus – November 2012

Honduras – Response to an “epidemic of violence”
Malaria – Offering children a chance
Somaliland – Helping women in childbirth
DRC – A young boy’s dream

Month in Focus : 12 October 2012

Democratic Republic of Congo – Yaws in the forest
Niger – Malaria & Malnutrition, the double sentence
Sri Lanka – End of mission
Novartis – Court case in India begins

Syria : 20 September 2012

Syria – An undercover hospital
South Sudan – An improved situation in Yida
Ethiopia – Sudanese refugees displaced
Guinea & Sierra Leone – “Coastal Cholera”
Uganda – Containing Ebola
Philippines – Torrential rains

Syria : 28 August 2012

MSF has been working in Syria since June 2012, in a vacant house converted into a field hospital in collaboration with a group of Syrian doctors. Since the program began, the surgical teams have performed 150 operations.