‘Affliction’ describes the history of Ebola in West Africa through the eyes of the local people, the community leaders, the victims, the humanitarian workers and those who managed to survive.

Doctors Without Borders is the reference medical organization in the treatment of Ebola. In 2014 it treated more than a third of infected patients. MSF recruited around 5.000 people and it created six treatment centres with more than 600 beds where it admitted more than 10.000 patients, from which 5.200 were confirmed Ebola cases. 2.400 of them achieved to survive an illness with a mortality rate higher than 90%. After more than two years and a half after the epidemic was officially recognised, last October MSF closed the last projects focused on taking care of the survivors of the illness in West Africa.

The projection will be followed by a colloquium moderated by Josep Lluís Barona, chairperson of History of Science and Documentation of the UV, and with the participation of Xavi Casero, paediatrician of Doctors Without Borders, and Natxo Tarazona, nurse of Doctors Without Borders. 

The film series ‘Gazes Without Borders’ will finish on Monday 28 November at 19 hours in the Cultural Centre La Nau of the Universitat de València with the projection of ‘Not a target’, a documentary by Doctors Without Borders about the attacks to the medical mission. ‘Not a target’ shows the repeated bombings to hospitals which followed the American attack of the 3 October 2015 that destroyed the hospital by Doctors Without Borders of Kunduz (Afghanistan) and killed 42 people: 24 patients, 14 humanitarian workers of MSF and 4 carers, and hurt 37 people. 

One year later, the hospital keeps closed and thousands of people do not have access to vital medical services. Before considering the reopening, the organisation continues asking for guarantees of all the parties of the conflict for the staff and patients of this hospital to be safe. Since the attack, medical facilities of Doctors Without Borders or the ones supported by the medical-humanitarian organisation have been the victims of at least 75 attacks. Only in 2016, 21 hospitals supported by MSF have suffered 36 attacks in Syria and Yemen.

After the projection, it will take place a colloquium moderated by Joan Romero, full university professor of Human Geography in the UV, and it will include the participation of Mila Font, representative of MSF for the Valencian Community, Murcia and Canary Islands, and Juanma Rodilla, worker of Doctors Without Borders. 

Both projections, open to the general public, will be carried out in the Aula Magna of La Nau. There is free entry and the speakers will answer the questions of the public after the projection.