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Sudan

Fighting forces MSF team to evacuate from Muhajariya

Since MSF runs the only hospital in the town, the evacuation of the MSF team means that people are urgently in need of medical care. MSF hopes to be able to return to the area as soon as possible to provide medical assistance. Project Update - 9 Oct 2007
 
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Malaria

Malaria portrait from Sierra Leone

Salaymatu Kargbo was one of the first people we met in Yamandu. A baby girl, just 17 months old, with tiny braids in her hair and sleepiness in her eyes. Her mother carefully approached our car, as soon as it stopped outside the colourful clinic. Project Update - 27 Apr 2007
 
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Chad

One koro of millet to feed 13 mouths - displaced in eastern Chad

Maximilian Gertler, an MSF doctor, holds a surgery three times a week in the camp along with a mobile medical team. "But the people don't have any energy any more", he says. "In combination with other health problems, the number of malnourished children could skyrocket." Project Update - 5 Feb 2007
 
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea

African sleeping sickness in the DRC

Until now, the only antidote available to most patients in the DRC was Melarsoprol, a derivative of arsenic. But it is so toxic that it melts plastic syringes and can kill patients before they die of the illness - on average about one in 20. Project Update - 19 Jul 2006
 
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China

MSF team frustrated about closed doors in China

No authorisation to open project for HIV-positive people in Henan province Project Update - 22 Jun 2006
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

DRC measles campaign: Free treatment for all cases

In conjunction with a massive measles vaccination campaign in the city of Mbuji Mayi, MSF also provides medical and logistical support to four health centres for the management of measles cases. In Muya and Dipumba hospitals, as well as in the Christ Roi and Bakwatshiimuna health centres, all measles cases are treated at no cost to the patient. Project Update - 23 Mar 2006
 
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Cambodia

Waiting for a miracle

From the Sunday Times Authors Series: novelist Jim Crace travels to Cambodia where tourism is booming. But behind the veneer of success, life is fraught with danger â€" Aids and malaria are rife, and the countryside is littered with landmines. Saddled with chronically inadequate health care, many depend on charities to survive. In the Media - 23 Jan 2006
 
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India

Assisting amidst violence in Karbi Anglong, Assam

Interview with Hilary Bower, Project Coordinator, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India
Since October 2005, Hilary Bower has worked as Project Coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the Karbi Anglong region of India's Assam state. MSF is bringing urgently needed assistance to local residents who have been forced to flee from their villages due to violence between members of two local tribes.
Project Update - 12 Jan 2006
 
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HIV/AIDS

Nolist - surviving AIDS and TB in South Africa

When I was sick, I wished that God could take me and I did not wish to be in this world. Now I'm going to spend many more years here because I am fine. Project Update - 22 Dec 2005
 
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HIV/AIDS

Forcing patients to pay for AIDS care endangers treatment success

The research revealed that in Lagos, Nigeria, among patients who had to pay for their own AIDS care, 44% had multiple treatment interruptions or took insufficient dosages due to lack of funds. The medical effects of this are extremely worrying. Press Release - 6 Dec 2005
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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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