100 Results For "polio"

Sudan

Doctoring In Darfur

Dr Simon Collins, originally from Ireland, is on his second field assignment with MSF. He is currently in Darfur, Sudan, helping tackle the humanitarian crisis caused by people being attacked and forced to flee their villages. In an interview at the end of September, he describes the situation around him. Project Update - 30 Sep 2004

Sudan

Darfur diary: Amid the hostilities, hospitality

Food is scarce but villagers in western Sudan still prepare a meal for MSF aid worker Dean Harris and his team when they set up a temporary clinic. Project Update - 2 Sep 2004

Bulgaria

Helping Romas get care and treating STIs

Increasing access to basic health services is the aim of MSF's work in the large Roma community living in the capital city of Sofia. In addition, MSF is treating people with sexually transmitted infections and trying to improve the quality of that care. Project Update - 18 Aug 2004

Malawi

In Malawi the only people doing good business are the coffin-makers

Prepared in cooperation with MSF, the series explores the lives of the civilian populations trying to survive in conflicts the world has all but forgotten. Project Update - 1 Oct 2003

Angola

Rich and at peace, there's crying poverty in Luanda

Miguel is nine years old. When he was born, Angola was at war, and, like hundreds of thousands of other children, Miguel was not vaccinated. He was just three when he caught polio. Today, he has trouble walking, bending double over his twisted left leg. Project Update - 9 Sep 2003

HIV/AIDS

Infectious diseases high on agenda under new WHO leadership

In his first speech as the agency's director, new WHO Director-General Jong-Wook Lee announced that by this year's World AIDS Day, December 1, the new HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria department will produce a global plan to provide 3 million HIV-infected people in developing countries with antiretroviral drugs by the end of 2005 - what is called the "three-by-five" target. Project Update - 1 Sep 2003

Vaccination

The Vaccine Gap: NY Times editorial

As the world struggles to fend off mysterious and complex plagues like AIDS and malaria, it must still find a sustainable way to ensure that children do not die from diseases that vaccines can prevent. Project Update - 30 Jan 2003

Somalia

Bare bone facts about Somalia - an MSF briefing document

MSF has been working in Somalia since 1986. We saw the terrible build up of slaughter and famine that eventually produced the American led and UN backed military intervention on November 9 1992. The civil war that erupted after the fall of the long-term dictatorship of Siad Barre smashed central authority and stimulated a multiplication of clan factions struggling for local power. Project Update - 9 Dec 2002

Afghanistan

Afghanistan at one year

This year, over 1.5 million Afghans have already come back to their homeland. No-one had anticipated such high figures. All these people need food, shelter, drinking water and jobs. The country is nowhere near able to handle this. Many have simply exchanged one calamitous situation for another and are desperately searching for any means of survival - also in the South, where the persistent drought creates further complications. Project Update - 16 Oct 2002

Afghanistan

Relocation back to Afghanistan starts for Afghan refugees in Pakistan

60,000 Afghanistan refugees are given the choice of returning to their place of origin or accept the relocation offered. Both choices return the refugees to Afghanistan. Project Update - 27 Aug 2002

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