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Music Opens Doors To A Girl's Recovery in Haiti

Musical “animators” at MSF’s Drouillard Hospital in Port-au-Prince can play a key role in getting traumatized patients to open up and talk to counselors.

Patient in MSF's Drouillard hospital, Port-au-Prince

The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March devastated the northeastern coast of Honshu island.

Japan 2011 © Jun Saito

One year after a devastating earthquake killed an estimated 222,000 people and left 1.5 million people homeless, Haitians continue to endure...

 

Dispatches - Winter 2010

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MSF first started working in Indonesia in October 1995, when it provided emergency aid to the victims of a devastating earthquake in Kerinci,...

Indonesia 2009 © Alan Cheung /MSF

Three years after the 2010 earthquake, the Haitian health care system is still devastated.

Haiti 2013 © Emilie Régnier

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has officially opened a new emergency trauma, orthopaedic and visceral surgery referral centre in the Tabarre...

Country Year © Author/MSF

Two years after the earthquake, the health care system in Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas is still in disarray.  Most Haitians still...

Country Year © Author/MSF

MSF teams have distributed 2,000 winter tents and 2,000 cooking kits in collaboration with local organisations since the earthquake struck...

Distribution of tents to people in earthquake-hit cities of Turkey

Following the earthquake that struck Eastern Turkey last Sunday, killing at least 500 people and injuring 2,500, MSF has sent a team to Van and...

Country Year © Author/MSF
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