MSF Pictures of 2015

This selection of 48 all-uses taken by commissioned photographers and MSF staff photos representing MSF’s most powerful images of 2015. 

System identifier: MSB17339 Title: SOUTH SUDAN KALA AZAR Photographer / cameraman: Karel Prinsloo Countries: South Sudan Description: A kala azar patient rests at a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Lankien, South Sudan, 13 January 2015.MSF Photos of 2015 System identifier : MSF150048 Title : Occupied Minds_ Mustafa Suliman Photographer / cameraman : Surinyach Anna Countries: Palestinian Territories. Mustafa is only 11 years old but he has already been detained for interrogation. He lives in a makeshift shed with 21 other people from his extended family. He has seven siblings and his parents live in Jericho, one hour drive away with their sheep, where he goes on the weekends. He likes math and Arabic besides science and would like to work with his father in a supermarket and looking after the sheep. Mustafa is only 11 years old but he has already been detained for interrogation. He lives in a makeshift shed with 21 other people from his extended family. He has seven siblings and his parents live in Jericho, one hour drive away with their sheep, where he goes on the weekends. He likes math and Arabic besides science and would like to work with his father in a supermarket and looking after the sheep.
System identifier : MSB16994 Title : Harsh winter conditions for refugees in Lebanon Photographer / cameraman : Ghazal Sotoudeh Countries: Lebanon Description : A child sorts through firewood amongst washing lines as freezing fog surrounds the Khoder Hawash makeshift settlement for refugees on the outskirts of Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa valley 17 January 2014. Snow and hail fell heavily 07 January in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, where some 400,000 Syrian refugees are sheltering in a number of makeshift campsSystem identifier : MSB17283 Title : Bentu Sandy Story Photographer / cameraman : Anna Surinyach Countries: Sierra Leone Description : Bentu Sandy, an Ebola survivor who now works with MSF in Bo as a mental health counsellor, celebrates the release of Agustine. Agustine is a pharmacist who caught Ebola in the course of his work helping to fight the disease
System identifier : MSB17938 Title : MSF in JDJ Hospital Photographer / cameraman : Yann Libessart Countries: Liberia Description : Since December 2014, MSF assists JDJ Memorial Hospital in Monrovia in upgrading their level of maternal and pediatric care, taking Ebola into accountSystem identifier : MSF141951 Title : Malawi floods, FEB 2015 Photographer / cameraman : Luca Sola Countries: Malawi Description : Alesi Phiri, 7yo, walks on a former field as she looks to the thick coat of dried mud. 85% of the population in the area relies on agriculture for economic survival. Consequences of the floods will likely be felt for months as all crops have been destroyed.
System identifier : MSF142748 Title : Burned children supported by MSF in northern Syria Photographer / cameraman : Unknown Expat Countries: Syria Description : Besieged, bombed, attacked, displaced, the Syrian population is devastated by four years of war. Basic services - access to health care, water, electricity, food Ethnic foods are no longer available in most of the country's governorates. In IDP camps in Bab Al Hawa and Atme, living conditions are more than precarious. System identifier : MSF142995 Title : Victims of chlorine attack Photographer / cameraman : Unknown Countries: Syria Description : A small child is treated after a chlorine attack. Victims of the attack were brought to an MSF supported hospital in Saremin in the region of Idlib, Syria. System identifier : MSF143401 Title : México - Ayotzinapa Photographer / cameraman : Juan Carlos Tomasi Countries: Mexico Description : The Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos teacher training college in Ayotzinapa, where the 43 missing students were studying, is in the Tixtla municipality, Guerrero. It is one of the poorest states in Mexico. MSF has been providing psychosocial support to the parents, families and classmates of the missing
System identifier : MSF142995 Title : Victims of chlorine attack Photographer / cameraman : Unknown Countries: Syria Description : A small child is treated after a chlorine attack. Victims of the attack were brought to an MSF supported hospital in Saremin in the region of Idlib, Syria
System identifier : MSF143800 Title : Emergency Malaria Outbreak South Kivu DRC Photographer / cameraman : Eddy Van Wessel Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo Description : In Kabanga village, MSF has trained community health workers to detect and cure malaria. Severe cases must be urgently referred by boat to the MSF-supported hospital in BarakaSystem identifier : MSF144094 Title : Rutshuru Hospital, DR Congo Photographer / cameraman : Leonora Baumann Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo. From November 2014 to January 2015, the General Hospital of reference (HGR) of Rutshuru in the province of North Kivu, DRC, has treated hundreds of children, the first victims of an unprecedented malaria peak. This is the most important malaria peak which the Congolese staff has ever faced, both in terms of severity, but also number of cases and duration of the peak. A situation worsened by pathologies affecting the worst case: many respiratory infections and severe sepsis. MSF is supporting the Rutshuru HGR (287 hospital beds) in the North Kivu province since October 2005. MSF runs the "hot pole": surgery, intensive care, emergency and burn support and case management for victims of sexual violence.
System identifier : MSF145012 Title : Kathmandu, Nepal Photographer / cameraman : Jean-Paul Delain Countries: NepalSystem identifier : MSF145012 Title : Kathmandu, Nepal Photographer / cameraman : Jean-Paul Delain Countries: Nepal Description:A giant earthquake struck Nepal on the morning of Saturday April 25th. Thousands are confirmed dead with many more injured and homeless.MSF teams and equipment have already arrived in the country, and more are on their way. Kathmandu has experienced relatively little destruction, with the vast majority of buildings still standing. However, many people are sleeping outside in tents and makeshift shelters as they are afraid to be inside due to aftershocks. This is a concern given that storms are expected over the coming days.
System identifier : MSF145894 Title : Meningitis Epidemic in Niger Photographer / cameraman : Sylvain Cherkaoui Countries: Niger Description : Patients wait their turn to come in the ambulatorySystem identifier : MSF145894 Title : Meningitis Epidemic in Niger Photographer / cameraman : Sylvain Cherkaoui Countries: Niger Description : Patients wait their turn to come in the ambulatory.
System identifier : MSF146166 Title : MSF Response to Nepal Earthquake Photographer / cameraman : Brian Sokol Countries: Nepal Description : Gorkha District, Nepal on May 7 2015. On 25 April a magnitude 7.8 earthquake killed more than 8,000 people and destroyed massive amounts of property, including numerous temples that were on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.System identifier : MSF146802 Title : South Sudan, Melut Photographer / cameraman : Matthias Steinbach Countries: South Sudan Description : A MSF doctor is taking her time to listen to a patient in the main ward of the MSF clinic in Mellut
System identifier : MSF147866 Title : Pakistan Behind The Headlines Photographer / cameraman : Sa'adia Khan Countries: Pakistan Description : Mohammad Akhtar 40 years old with his daughter Rubbina 10. From Mamozai - took them 6 hours to get to the hospital by foot. His wife has a kidney problem. 7 children. Rubbina has Leishmaniasis - skin condition
System identifier : MSF148193 Title : Migrants in Kos, Greece Photographer / cameraman : Alessandro Penso Countries: Greece 2015. Kos. Greece. An Afghan family at the pier on the island of Kos. Earlier, they were waiting in vain outside the nearby police station to get the necessary papers which would allow them to leave the island. “I’ve come to Europe to give my children the best” says the father of the family. “I don’t know when I can get my papers.”. For seven days, the family was staying in the disused Captain Elias hotel, which the Kos authorities direct migrants to stay in while they await the authorization from the police to leave the island. However, they decided to move out because of the unhygienic conditions: “It’s dangerous for the children because there are a lot of insects.`My children have insect bites all over their bodies. When I was sleeping there was an insect that crawled into my ear and it’s still there now.”
System identifier : MSF148249 Title : Idomeni migration route, Greece Photographer / cameraman : Alessandro Penso Countries: GreecDescription:A group of around 150 Syrians set off to cross the Greek border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), with the hope of being able to apply for refugee status in countries such as Germany or Sweden. The Greek border with the FYROM is increasingly under the control of people-smugglers, and is becoming less safe each day, so migrants try to cross the border in large groups so they can defend themselves.
System identifier : MSF149192 Title : Trauma Centre Kunduz Photographer / cameraman : Andrew Quilty Countries: Afghanistan. Qudus brought his four year old dauger khal Bibi in after she fell through the roof of their home and injured her leg. At Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Kunduz Trauma Centre where free treatment is provided to patients regardless of their political affiliation (ie. the side on which the fight in the war between the armed opposition group and Government forces) MSF’s trauma centre is the only facility of its kind in the whole north-eastern region of Afghanistan providing high level life- and limb-saving trauma care. MSF opened Kunduz Trauma Centre in August 2011 to provide high quality, free medical and surgical care to victims of trauma such as traffic accidents, as well as those with conflict related injuries from bomb blasts or gunshots.System identifier : MSF149528 Title : Malawi Prisons - Chichiri and Maula Photographer / cameraman : Luca Sola Countries: Malawi Description : MALAWI. Blantyre. May 25th, 2015. Chichiri Prison Description:MALAWI. Blantyre. May 25th, 2015. Chichiri Prison. Overview of an overcrowded cell portrayed early in the morning (6am) The prisoners are waiting the authorization to go out to the common space after some 14 hours spent in critical condition. Overcrowding is a critical problem in Malawian jails. Chichiri Prison was built to house 800 prisoners instead of the 2000 currently detained there. According to medical statistics this specific cell 5, one of the most overcrowded, have the most case of viral transmissions (Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Malaria, HIV) as well as the highest percentage of other diseases related to unhygienic conditions (Scabies, skin infections, rash).
System identifier : MSF149696 Title : Kara Tepe Camp in Lesbos, Greece. Photographer / cameraman : Georgios Makkas Countries: Greece. Thousands of migrants and asylum seekers are currently stranded in precarious conditions across several Greek islands, despite repeated calls since December 2014 by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to Greek authorities and the EU to address the lack of reception capacity. An MSF emergency response team has arrived in Lesbos - one of the two islands in Greece that actually has organised reception facilities, but where the system is on the edge of collapse.System identifier : MSF150158 Title : July 13 Rescue - Phoenix Photographer / cameraman : Gabriele François Casini Countries: Italy Description : With 414 people on board, space becomes extremely limited and every available inch is used to allow people to rest and sleep. Despite appearing very crowded, many people say they slept comfortably for the first time in months
System identifier : MSF150254 Title : Sa'ada City Hospital Photographer / cameraman : Sebastiano Tomada Countries: Yemen Description : A father holds his wounded child at the MSF supported Ministry of Health hospital in Sa'ada city. SSaudi led coalition forces have been carrying out air strikes on a daily basis in Yemen's Sa'ada warning civilians to leave the province after declaring the entire territory a "military target".June 15, 2015. (Photo by Sebastiano Tomada/Getty Images ReportageSystem identifier : MSF150270 Title : Refugees in Kos Photographer / cameraman : Alessandro Penso Countries: Greece Description : Seven people from Pakistan arrive on the Greek island of Kos after rowing all night
System identifier : MSF150477 Title : Aden besieged Photographer / cameraman : Guillaume Binet Countries: Yemen Description : Emergency room in Aden hospital.System identifier : MSF150650 Title : Bourbon Argos rescues in the Mediterranean (July-August 2015) Photographer / cameraman : Christophe Stramba-Badiali Countries: Italy Description : Prior to embarkation on board the Bourbon Argos
System identifier : MSF150650 Title : Bourbon Argos rescues in the Mediterranean (July-August 2015) Photographer / cameraman : Christophe Stramba-Badiali Countries: Italy Description : Prior to embarkation on board the Bourbon Argos. MSF and MOAS rescue team assisted 369 people in distress found on a that 12 meters wooden boat in the Mediterranean sea. Will Turner (Emergency Coordinator) and MOAS rescue team on board of the RHIB. As part of the rescue operation, the team will provide people first with life jackets to prevent drowning and then operate transfer onto the MY Phoenix. During transfer, the Rhib can take between 10 to 20 people on board. The team have to do many rides before taking everybody safe on board of the MY Phoenix.
System identifier : MSF150894 Title : MSF in Al Dhale and Taiz, Yemen. July 2015 Photographer / cameraman : Alex Potter Countries: Yemen Description : A Yemeni man surveys the damage from an airstrike from the previous night on July 21, 2015 in Qataba, Yemen. At least four missiles struck a cluster of houses outside Qataba, killing at least four people and injuring dozens, many of whom were brought to the MSF supported hospital in Qatab
System identifier : MSF154393 Title : Kunduz Hospital After the Attack Photo: ©MSF : Andrew Quilty Countries: Afghanistan Description : Burnt-out corridors, collapsed roofs, twisted metal and ash, is all that remains of many building at the MSF Trauma Centre in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, following the 03 October US airstrike on the facility which killed more than 20 MSF staff members and patients. System identifier : MSF149192 Title : Trauma Centre Kunduz Photographer / cameraman : Andrew Quilty Countries: Afghanistan Description : Qudus brought his four year old dauger khal Bibi in after she fell through the roof of their home and injured her leg. At Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Kunduz Trauma Centre where free treatment is provided to patients regardless of their political affiliation (ie. the side on which the fight in the war between the armed opposition group and Government forces) MSF’s trauma centre is the only facility... System identifier : MSF153449 Title : MSF Staff Killed and Hospital Partially Destroyed in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Photographer / cameraman : Countries: Afghanistan Description : MSF staff in shock in one of the remaining parts of MSF's hospital in Kunduz, in the aftermath of sustained bombing 03 October 2015.
System identifier : MSF154393 Title : Kunduz Hospital After the Attack Photographer / cameraman : Andrew Quilty Countries: Afghanistan Description : Burnt-out corridors, collapsed roofs, twisted metal and ash, is all that remains of many building at the MSF Trauma Centre in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, following the 03 October US airstrike on the facility which killed more than 20 MSF staff members and patientsSystem identifier : MSF154407 Title : Kunduz Hospital Aftermath - 14 Oct 2015 Photographer / cameraman : Victor J. Blue Countries: Afghanistan Description:An interior view of the MSF Trauma Centre, 14 October 2015, shows a missile hole in the wall and the burnt-out remians of the the building aftera sustained attack on the facility in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan.
System identifier : MSF154432 Title : Stranded in Serbia Photographer / cameraman : Anna Surinyach Countries: Serbia Description : Up to 3,000 refugees were stranded in the border between Serbia and Croatia on October 19. Hundreds had spent the night on the Serbian transit area of Babska-Sid, with no shelter. Rain and low temperatures were affecting the health conditions of the refugeesSystem identifier : MSF154655 Title : Seeking malaria treatment around Aweil, South Sudan Photographer / cameraman : Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi Countries: South Sudan. Description:32-year-old Arek Nuoi, mother of four, receives an IV treatment of quinine for malaria after she was brought to Panthou government health care center unconscious, carried on a bicycle by her three brothers-in-law. "Yesterday, we were here [in Panthou] for market day, and she was okay," said one of her brothers-in-law. "Last night she had a headache and then body pain," continued her mother. "This morning, I went to collect the local tree," she explained, referring to the traditional plant medicine for headaches and other pain. When she returned, she found Arek collapsed and vomiting. The family tied a chair onto a bicycle and placed Arek in the chair. They then pushed it all the way from their home village of Maper to the Panthou health center. The journey took one and a half hours. At home they have a mosquito net and always sleep under it, but none of them knew how malaria is contracted. Panthou health care center is the only one in Aweil South county and is currently treating about 150 malaria patients per day. They had just received a supply of ACT oral medication for malaria; their previous stock had run out on August 17. The new stock will likely run out in one or two weeks. They have quinine, but not a lot, so they reserve it for serious cases. They have no RDT (rapid detection tests), so diagnosis is only done clinically, based on observed symptoms.
System identifier : MSF155132 Title : Bourbon Argos Rescue 2015 Photographer / cameraman : Francesco Zizola Countries: Italy Description : 26th August 2015. A young child is lifted from a boat containing approximately 650 people during a rescue in the Mediterranean Sea by the Bourbon Argos.System identifier : MSF156328 Title : Ebola Survivor Health in Tonkolili, Sierra Leone, Oct 2015 Photographer / cameraman : Tommy Trenchard Countries: Sierra Leone Description : Ebola survivor Sorie Kamara photographed in his house during a MSF outreach mission the village of Mabekoh. Kamara, 25, used to farm rice and cassava before he caught Ebola but is now too weak. “I got Ebola in October last year. They took me to Bo and I was inside for 10 days. I felt so happy when I survived, but then three months later I stated to feel pain in my chest and my joints. I feel so weak
System identifier: MSB16782 Title: SOUTH SUDAN KALA AZAR Photographer / cameraman: Karel Prinsloo Countries: South Sudan Description: Kala azar sufferer Ruai Puot Malow (56 years) is assisted by his wife Yakuony Jock Deng (right) and a relative at a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders hospital in Lankien, South Sudan, Tuesday, 13 Jan 2015. Ruai was brought to the hospital by relatives who carried him for five hours through the bush to the MSF hospital after he suffered yet another outbreak of the disease.System identifier: MSB17477 Title: Conflict effect on population. Donetsk region, Ukraine JAN 2015 Photographer / cameraman: Manu Brabo Countries: Ukraine Description: A patient infected with TB is treated by a member of MSF staff within a prison in Donetsk, Ukraine, where MSF is helping to treat patients infected with TB. MSF has been running a DR-TB treatment program within the penitentiary system in Donetsk since 2011
System identifier: MSB17480 Title: Conflict effect on population. Donetsk region, Ukraine JAN 2015 Photographer / cameraman: Manu Brabo Countries: Ukraine Description: Galina, 86, looks at the hole where a shell hit her apartment in Kievsky district in Donetsk, Ukraine.System identifier: MSB17721 Title: Photographer / cameraman: Yann Libessart Countries: Guinea Description: MSF staff dressing in PPE to enter the high risk zone at MSF ETC in Donka, Conakry.
System identifier: MSF142605 Description:Transport of MSF supplies to get to one of the North Homs besieged areas. "Already reaching North Homs with supplies is very difficult, but the situation [here] is impossible. Geographically it is a valley, but we are surrounded by mountains and checkpoints - in reality it is more like an island with 90,000 people under an even more intense siege within the general siege on Northern Homs. "It’s been three years since this area has been reachable by cars on regular roads. Whether it is for food, medicine or fuel, we can only go through a muddy and difficult path accessible only by foot, donkey or with small boats across Lake Houleh. We only have one path for supplies, but we call it the death path because there are snipers; whatever reaches us is covered in the blood of the people who have risked their lives to get it here." Dr A.
System identifier: MSF142748 Title : Burned children supported by MSF in northern Syria Photographer / cameraman : Unknown Expat Countries: Syria Description : Besieged, bombed, attacked, displaced, the Syrian population is devastated by four years of war. Basic services - access to health care, water, electricity, food Ethnic foods are no longer available in most of the country's governorates. In IDP camps in Bab Al Hawa and Atme, living conditions are more than precariou
System identifier: MSF145431 Title: Mobile Clinic in Gorozishe, Lugansk Photographer / cameraman: Jon Levy Countries: Ukraine Description: Dr Moshin Mehraj checks the pulse of an elderly patient at the MSF mobile clinic in the village of Gorodishe, near Lugansk.
System identifier: MSF149778 Title: Nyarugusu camp - Tanzania Photographer / cameraman: Louise Annaud Countries: Tanzania Description: Arrival of a bus with new Burundian refugees coming from Kigoma. Some people have been on the road for a week and had to walk for miles.System identifier: MSF150331 Title: Dignity Rescue July Photographer / cameraman: Anna Surinyach Countries: Italy Description: Fifteen-year-old Fathema is from Somalia. She fled Mogadiscio seven months ago. She left alone and without telling her family. She wants to live in Europe – she doesn’t care in which country. System identifier: MSB17339 Title: SOUTH SUDAN KALA AZAR Photographer / cameraman: Karel Prinsloo Countries: South Sudan Description: A kala azar patient rests at a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Lankien, South Sudan, 13 January 2015. System identifier: MSB16782 Title: SOUTH SUDAN KALA AZAR Photographer / cameraman: Karel Prinsloo Countries: South Sudan Description: Kala azar sufferer Ruai Puot Malow (56 years) is assisted by his wife Yakuony Jock Deng (right) and a relative at a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders hospital in Lankien, South Sudan, Tuesday, 13 Jan 2015. Ruai was brought to the hospital by relatives who carried him for five hours through the bush to the MSF hospital after he suffered yet another outbreak of the disease. The conflict... System identifier: MSB17477 Title: Conflict effect on population. Donetsk region, Ukraine JAN 2015 Photographer / cameraman: Manu Brabo Countries: Ukraine Description: A patient infected with TB is treated by a member of MSF staff within a prison in Donetsk, Ukraine, where MSF is helping to treat patients infected with TB. MSF has been running a DR-TB treatment program within the penitentiary system in Donetsk since 2011 System identifier: MSB17480 Title: Conflict effect on population. Donetsk region, Ukraine JAN 2015 Photographer / cameraman: Manu Brabo Countries: Ukraine Description: Galina, 86, looks at the hole where a shell hit her apartment in Kievsky district in Donetsk, Ukraine.
System identifier: MSF154973 Title: Tanzania - Burundian refugees in Nyarugusu camp Photographer / cameraman: Luca Sola Countries: Tanzania Description: View of Nyarugusu refugee camp.

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