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Democratic Republic of Congo

Aid workers resume assistance to civilian population

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international aid agency, has been surveying the casualties and the needs of the civilian population for the first time after a week of fighting in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. Press Release - 12 Jun 2000
 
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Ethiopia

Malnutrition in Ethiopia

Ethiopia, in a "normal" year, has 45% of the total population food dependent/relying on food assistance. In 1996 and 1998, the prevalence of acute malnutrition in children aged between three and 59 months, was 8.0% and 9.2%, respectively. Project Update - 16 May 2000
 
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Kenya

Homa Bay, where TB is the biggest AIDS related killer

Homa Bay lies on the banks of Lake Victoria in Kenya. Fishermen set sail onto the lake from the small harbour, women wash their clothes on the shores, the town is small and pretty and all would seem - to the untrained eye - peaceful and well here. Project Update - 24 Mar 2000
 
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Madagascar

MSF withdraws from Toliara province

Tuesday morning, the Swiss Section of the organization MSF officially announced the immediate and total withdrawal of all its teams working in Madagascar, in response to the refusal of authorities to allow them access to treat cholera victims. Press Release - 22 Feb 2000
 
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Madagascar

Madagascar cholera epidemic

For the first time in the island's recent history, Madagascar has been hit by a cholera epidemic. The first cases were identified in the province of Mahajanga in March 1999. The outbreak spread rapidly there, as well as in the neighboring provinces of Antananarivo and Diégo-Suarez Project Update - 22 Feb 2000
 
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Republic of Congo

War in Congo causes alarming malnutrition and mortality

UN Security Council Urged to Address Humanitarian Emergency Press Release - 24 Jan 2000
 
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Somalia

Cholera treatment centre to start

Following the recent outbreak of cholera in Mogadishu, Somalia, MSF has implemented a Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC) which will be up and running later in January. Project Update - 17 Jan 2000
 
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Sierra Leone

Mental trauma in Sierra Leone

The emergency medical organization Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) today called upon the international community to devote greater resources for the treatment of mental trauma in war-torn Sierra Leone. Press Release - 11 Jan 2000
 
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South Sudan

Fight against deadly sleeping sickness in southern Sudan

Project Update - 7 Dec 1999
 
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Antibiotic resistance

MSF starts malaria programme in the Niger Delta

Yury, 38, is celebrating a moment he thought would never arrive: he has been cured of a complicated form of TB Press Release - 27 Oct 1999
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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