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Uganda

Responding to food insecurity and malnutrition in northeast Uganda

In addition to responding to the malnutrition crisis in Uganda, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) tackled other disease outbreaks such as Hepatitis E, Ebola or cholera and, in some areas, MSF teams have refocused their activities on secondary care and HIV/AIDS care.
Project Update - 16 Oct 2008
 
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India

More dead than alive - surviving kala azar

Each year, 50,000 people die of kala azar, a tropical disease which is transmitted by sandflies; there are few effective drugs to treat it, and those that are available are mostly not affordable for people in poorer countries. Project Update - 24 Jul 2008
 
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Mexico

Medical consultations and distribution of material at Mexico flood scenes

Twelve days after the flooding began, displaced families continue to wait for a drop in water levels, allowing them to finally return home. A distribution is in process for 2,600 other families. Project Update - 14 Nov 2007
 
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Chad

Chad's rainy season, with ongoing violence and displacement, brings the health situation closer to emergency levels

Attacks from rebels on the civilians living in villages and in camps will most probably diminish during the rainy season, as it is not only MSF that has problems in reaching the population: also the rebels can not cross the wadis once they are filled with water. Project Update - 30 Jul 2007
 
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India

Novartis angers critics in India

Challenge of patent laws creates uproar among public-health advocates. Project Update - 5 Mar 2007
 
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Chad

Stepping up assistance to displaced in southeast Chad amid deteriorating security

Since early 2006, attacks on civilians in southeast Chad have resulted in the displacement of more than 100,000 Chadians. About 40,000 of them fled their homes in November and December alone when violence peaked. Project Update - 7 Feb 2007
 
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India

Q&A on patents in India and the Novartis case

Why do millions of people rely on India for affordable medicines? - What is the relationship between patents and affordable medicines? - Why does India grant patents on drugs now? - Why is Novartis suing the Indian Government? - How is it possible for India to reject a patent that is granted in other countries? - Does India have the right to have this particular patent law? - What will happen if Novartis wins the case? Project Update - 20 Dec 2006
 
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Sudan

A crisis of human suffering

The situation has certainly changed since I was in Darfur over two years ago... Today MSF has had to reduce its activities due to intensified fighting and mounting insecurity throughout Darfur.
An interview with MSF International Council President, Dr. Rowan Gillies.
Project Update - 14 Nov 2006
 
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Palestine

The situation could quickly turn critical

Dr. Pierre-Pascal Vandini recently returned from the Gaza Strip, where access to health care has deteriorated for people since the European Union and the United States suspended their financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority. He was interviewed in mid-May 2006 about how Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is reevaluating its activities in the Palestinian Occupied Territories in light of the medical, social, and economic impacts of recent events on the ground. Project Update - 6 Aug 2006
 
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India

Patent application for AIDS drug opposed for first time in India

Patents in India endanger global access to affordable medicines and treatment scale-up. Press Release - 30 Mar 2006
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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