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MSF teams are bringing medical care to people who have been cut off from healthcare by the damage caused by Hurricane Matthew. Watch as MSF medics arrive by helicopter to treat people in need.

Jaime Wah is a Canadian nurse who has worked overseas with MSF in conflict situations from Central African Republic to Democratic Republic of Congo, delivering medical care to people in need. She recently returned from South Sudan, where she worked at the MSF hospital in the United Nations' Protection of Civilians camp in Bentiu, which is home to more than 100,000 people who have been displaced by the country's violent and ongoing civil war. In the video above, she describes how armed fighters use sexual assault as a weapon, putting the health and lives of already vulnerable women already at even greater risk.

As Liberia today celebrates 42 days without any new Ebola infections — effectively marking the end of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa — the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the global health community to draw on lessons learned in order to be better prepared for future similar outbreaks.

Imagine trying to keep a life-or-death secret when it touches almost everyone you know. The statistics tell you that many people with whom you live, work or socialize share the same secret. Indeed, everyone you know has a parent, child, friend, colleague or neighbour who shares this secret. Yet you can never be sure who to confide in.