745 Results For "respiratory"

Pneumonia

Pneumonia definition and treatment

"You can prevent diarrhoea, you can prevent measles, you can even prevent malaria to some extent. But we've never been able to stop kids getting chest infections. They hit them like a truck." - MSF field doctor, Thailand. Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

HIV/AIDS

MSF basic information

"The worst is still to come in southern Africa. The region is facing human disaster on a scale it has never seen before." - Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Tajikistan

Some 10,000 Afghan IDPs stuck on border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan

The ongoing fighting between the Northern Alliance (NA) and the Taliban movement has left almost 200,000 people displaced in Northern Afghanistan. Approximately 10,000 of them were unable to flee to safe areas and are now stuck on two islands within the Pianj river between the Tajik border and the Afghan front-line. Project Update - 11 Dec 2000

Afghanistan

No safe home

In the Taliban's latest push to gain total control of Afghanistan, the civilian population, which has suffered chronic conflict for over two decades, has been subjected to acute hardships of disease, displacement, food shortages and fighting. The situation is set to worsen with the coming winter, but humanitarian assistance is scarce and the UK government refuses to assist. Project Update - 7 Nov 2000

Nicaragua

Living in the middle of a rubbish dump

A case study of El Limonal, a community destroyed by Hurricane Mitch and now existing in a rubbish dump. The site is described as inappropriate for human habitation yet there are efforts to make the site permanent. Project Update - 27 Oct 2000

Haemorrhagic fevers

Ebola information - 2000

Ebola disease was first recognised in 1976 in the western equatorial province of the Sudan and 500 miles away in Zaire. Project Update - 16 Oct 2000

Afghanistan

IDP situation deteriorates in Herat

Winter is coming and displaced populations are living in the over-crowded, ill-equipped Shayadee-camp camp where conditions are horrendous. Still more are outside the camp. MSF has taken responsibility to co-ordinate the assistance in the camp. Project Update - 16 Oct 2000

Water and sanitation

A 'World Water Vision' requires action today

The 22nd of March has joined a long list of dates to mark on your activists calendar. Following the World Water Forum in The Hague, the United Nations has launched the first annual 'World Water Day'. Will this be yet another slogan to motivate the public that results in very little action and change. Project Update - 23 Mar 2000

Water and sanitation

Action Today for the people around the Aral Sea

In less than 25 years, central Asia's Aral Sea, once the fourth largest inland body of water in the world, has dried up to 50% of its original surface area. The two rivers that feed the sea have largely been diverted since the 1950s to irrigate Soviet cotton fields. Project Update - 17 Mar 2000

Mozambique

Possibility of ground transport will aid food and water distribution

There were intermittent heavy rains throughout the night of March 7 but most of the rainfall has been either absorbed by the ground or gone in the African heat. Project Update - 9 Mar 2000

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

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