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Angola

Mavinga Town - a face to the Angolan crisis

Just 300 kms from Menogue in southern Angola, Mavinga is a remote town with little save a dry river bed and some aid. The best method for entry is by plane and even that has complications as refueling to leave is not always an option. Project Update - 12 Jul 2002

Pakistan

Jalozai camp: a living cemetery

For nearly seven months, MSF was the only international NGO active there. Our staff saw over 52,000 patients including 15,000 five year-olds, helped deliver more than 350 babies and cared for over 4,000 malnourished children, pregnant and breast-feeding women. Yet despite this huge effort, Jalozai became a symbol both of the suffering of the Afghan population and of the lack of support from the international community towards Pakistan. Project Update - 20 Feb 2002

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's health service is a casualty of 20 years of war

Sri Lanka's 20 years of war has killed over 60,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more. Project Update - 9 Feb 2002

Natural disasters

Damage to basic infrastructure slowing aid reaction

MSF preparing for vaccination campaigns and providing water chlorification tablets to residents. Project Update - 22 Jan 2002

Global

MSF 'Top-Ten' under-reported stories of 2000

MSF third annual list of the most under-reported humanitarian stories of the year. The organization compiled the list to call attention to human crises that were largely ignored by the U.S. press during 2000. Project Update - 19 Jan 2001

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis still afflicts millions

Smallpox has been eradicated, and polio could follow suit shortly. The world can justifiably be proud of such far-reaching public health achievements. Friday is World TB Day. Most people in the industrialized world think of tuberculosis as a disease of the 19th century that disappeared along with smallpox. Not so. This year, 3 million people will die of tuberculosis, and 8 million people will develop the disease, almost all in poor countries. Project Update - 24 Mar 2000

Sierra Leone

MSF workers released in Sierra Leone

The two members of MSF who had been detained in the district of Kailahun, Sierra Leone, have been released. Project Update - 16 Dec 1999

Sierra Leone

MSF workers held in Sierra Leone

Two volunteers of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are being held by RUF rebels in Sierra Leone. A doctor and a logistician of MSF, who have been opening a health project in the district of Kailahun, have been held for 48 hours by RUF authorities controlling the region. The two volunteers, with whom there has been some contact in the last two days, are Belgian and German nationals. Press Release - 9 Dec 1999

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