Sudan, Nasir – April 2008
Nyabuol’s baby was ill, so she came to the MSF hospital in Nasir. She had just enough money for the boat trip to get there. Walking for two days with two young children was impossible, so now she sells water to earn money for the trip home.

Pol-I-Khumri, Afghanistan – December 2001
A checkpoint of the Northern Alliance at the entrance of Pol-I-Khumri, a village between Mazar-I-Shariff and Kunduz.

Bamiyan, Afghanistan – February 2002
These men and their families fled the Taliban threat. For two years, from village to village. Their houses have been destroyed, their fields mined. They’re awaiting the end of winter to go back to their village and start reconstruction.

Lampedusa, Italy – December 2004
The small island of Lampedusa south of Sicily belongs to Italy, but lies closer to Africa than Europe. About 10 000 boat migrants from different African countries arrived here in 2004. In the autumn, Italian authorities started returning the migrants to Libya without processing their requests for asylum.

Quibdo, Colombia – November 2004
11 year-old Lydia lives with her mother and three sisters and brothers in the shantytown Obrero in the outskirts of Quibdo. The father has left them. Their home is a shed of two times two meters. Lydia takes care of the children when their mother works as maid. None of the children own an identity card that entitles to health care.

Hal Far, Malta – July 2009
Baby in waiting room of the clinic run by MSF in Malta. The clinic was set up so that migrants and asylum seekers staying in open centres in Malta could have access to health care and psychological support. The clinic is in Hal Far, near the open centres.
MSF provides medical care, mental health support and health promotion activities to migrants and asylum seekers living in open centres in Hal Far and in Ta’kandja detention center in Malta. MSF started working in Malta in August 2008.

Chambarak, Armenia – August 2004
Armenia, situated in the South Caucasus, was one of the first states of the former Soviet Union to gain independence. Fifteen years later however, more than half of the population lives below the poverty line. For many of them, life is a shuttle between soup kitchens and social services.

Mae La refugee camp, Thailand – November 2007
Near the border to Myanmar, in Mae La camp, which houses more than 30 000 refugees. MSF began treating tuberculosis (TB) among unregistered migrant workers from Burma and refugees in Mae Lae camp in 1999. The project also offers counselling and health education.

Yambio, South sudan – June 2009
Houses in Yambio southern Sudan at night. LRA attacks along the border belt area of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan have displaced tens of thousands of people from homes like these.
Click here to see a slideshow with more images and commentary by the photographer, Brendan Bannon.

Dagahaley Refugee Camp, Dadaab – July 2009
A young Somali boy held by his mother looks out from between the veils.
An estimated 5,000 people arrive monthly to the Dagahaley, Ifo, and Hagadera camps located in the Kenyan border town of Dadaab, which are operated by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

Port Harcourt, Nigeria – July 2007
In the oil-rich Niger delta in southern Nigeria, the struggle for revenue and power has resulted in violent clashes fueled by a complex dynamic among various groups. In the heart of the Diobu in Port Harcourt is Teme hospital where MSF set up a trauma center in November 2005. More than 200 Nigerian and international staff provide free emergency medical care to victims of trauma, including gunshots, stabbings, burns, and life-threatening road accidents.