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Kala Azar treatment in Fulbaria
Bangladesh

Hope for kala azar sufferers in Bangladesh

Health ministers from Nepal, India and Bangladesh, where the disease is endemic, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in May 2005, pledging to collaborate to eliminate kala azar from the region by 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals. Press Release - 18 Jun 2010
 
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Chad

MSF vaccinates 500,000 children against measles in N'Djamena Chad

The vaccination campaign was initially planned to end on April 6, but its length is extended, in cooperation with Chadian health authorities, to reach the needed level of coverage. Project Update - 12 Apr 2010
 
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Malnutrition

Rome food summit to fail if governments continue spending peanuts on childhood malnutrition

Funding by rich countries to combat malnutrition has remained flat for seven years, according to a report released today by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Press Release - 11 Nov 2009
 
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Central African Republic

Nutritional emergency: The last straw

Interview with Dr Carol Calero, MSF field doctor working in the nutritional emergency in southeastern Central African Republic. Interview - 22 Sep 2009
 
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Papua New Guinea

First cholera outbreak in 50 years in Papua New Guinea moves from small town to provincial capital

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the cholera outbreak by assisting the Ministry of Health in setting up a cholera treatment centre in the hospital. Project Update - 7 Sep 2009
 
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Mali

Nomadic groups challenge measles vaccination effort for 400,000 children in Mali

Overall, around 100 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff, the majority from Mali, are working to address the measles outbreak. Project Update - 13 Jul 2009
 
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Somalia

Measles treatment in Somalia requires an adapted response

As the conflict in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, reaches new heights, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is still managing to curb the worst effects of an ongoing measles outbreak in neighbouring regions. Project Update - 3 Jul 2009
 
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Sri Lanka

Amid restrictions, MSF field hospital in Sri Lanka provides essential, but limited, surgical and medical care

Though Ministry of Health doctors working in the camps are doing their best to cope with the number of patients, there is a need to provide a round-the-clock service which can identify, treat and refer war wounded patients and medical emergencies to the field hospital as quickly as possible. Project Update - 8 Jun 2009
 
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Colombia

MSF assists as newly displaced dramatically increase population of Colombian village

Following recent displacement of families around Dubasa River, in the Chocó region of northwest Colombia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is bringing medical care and water and sanitation support to the population. Project Update - 3 Apr 2009
 
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Sudan

MSF's expulsion leaves health care vacuum for 100,000 in Kalma Camp, Darfur

Lydia Geirsdottir, MSF Project Coordinator in Kalma Camp, describes how the expulsion will affect the thousands of people living in one of the world's largest internally displaced people's (IDP) camps. Voices from the Field - 11 Mar 2009
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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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