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Ethiopia

Malaria epidemic in Ethiopia: effective treatment needed now

MSF is requesting permission to use an artemisinin combination therapy as recommended by the WHO and considered to be the most effective treatment against malaria in such circumstances. Project Update - 5 Dec 2003
 
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HIV/AIDS

For a lucky few, free drugs offer hope against Aids in Africa

On World Aids Day, Sarah Boseley of The Guardian, reports on a project in a Kenyan slum that is showing the way forward in a continent ravaged by the disease. Project Update - 1 Dec 2003
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF reacts to ferry disaster in the DRC

Dr Bompange, an MSF staff member, was part of a helicopter search for survivors, 222 of whom have so far been accounted for. Seven more bodies have been discovered in the course of this morning, bringing the total number of confirmed dead to 110. The number of people still missing is unclear since such ferries regularly exceed their capacity. Project Update - 27 Nov 2003
 
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Republic of Congo

MSF responds to Ebola outbreak in Congo Brazzaville

It is distressing that five trained healthworkers have now died of Ebola in Cuvette Ouest since 2002, and yet there has been very little effort to improve access to healthcare, train new staff or care for the victims of this and other sicknesses in the Republic of Congo. Project Update - 25 Nov 2003
 
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Mali

MSF in Mali to fight cholera epidemic

The first focus is on treating the patients and then the intervention will expand or adapt according to how the outbreak develops. Project Update - 18 Nov 2003
 
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South Africa

Many children report to new MSF post-rape centre in Khayelitsha

In light of the shocking number of sexually abused children, MSF will evaluate the need to adapt its post rape programme to this reality. Project Update - 4 Nov 2003
 
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Somalia

MSF intervenes on both sides of Somalia clan conflict

"At the moment there are four major armed conflicts going on in Somalia, of which this is one. Two others are taking place near Baidoa, and the fourth in the Juba Valley, not too far from our new project there," said an MSF spokeperson. Project Update - 31 Oct 2003
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

New support project for Walikale hospital in DRC

MSF has started a new project in Walikale, some 150 kilometres east of Goma in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Project Update - 29 Oct 2003
 
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Liberia

MSF provides medical help for survivors of sexual violence in war-ravaged Liberia

MSF Liberian staff, many whom have also been victims of the war, work in the camps to spread the message that treatment is available and give rape survivors the confidence to come forward for treatment. Project Update - 7 Oct 2003
 
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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
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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