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Mental health

Psychosocial and mental health interventions in areas of mass violence

Medical guidelines on providing psychosocial and mental health support to people living in contexts of mass violence. Second edition, March 2011. MSF medical resource - 13 Mar 2011
 
South Africa

Scaling up Diagnosis and Treatment of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Khayelitsha is a township with one of the highest burdens of HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa. Since 2007, MSF, the City of Cape Town and the Provincial Government of the Western Cape have been carrying out a pilot project to provide treatment to DR-TB patients at the primary care level. Report - 11 Mar 2011
 
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Kala azar

Kala Azar treatment brings lifelong immunity

The beautiful thing about treatment of Kala Azar is that once you’re cured for Kala Azar you have a life long immunity. So that means that every case treated is a life saved. And imagine that we have treated a middle sized town of 100 000 people. Project Update - 11 Mar 2011
 
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Fistula

Fistula reconstructive surgery returns lives, dignity and well-being

Sigrid describes what took place in one of the MSF fistula camps, from mid-November to the end of December, 2010, in Boguila, a town in western Central African Republic. In the second of two fistula camps that MSF organized in the country, 65 women were treated. Voices from the Field - 8 Mar 2011
 
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Nigeria

Preventing and treating obstetric fistulas in Nigeria

Obstetric fistulas, most often the result of prolonged obstructed labor, is an opening that occurs between the bladder and the vagina, or between the rectum and the vagina and causes a woman to become incontinent, among other devastating medical and social consequences. According to the UN, an estimated two million women live with fistulas today—about half of them in Nigeria. Voices from the Field - 8 Mar 2011
 
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Fistula

The 'backyard disease'

In Burundi, MSF set up a special centre at the Gitega regional hospital that is devoted exclusively to these operations. Every year it operates on 350 women. Project Update - 7 Mar 2011
 
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Women's health

Sentenced to injury and shame

Video: Sentenced to injury and shame Project Update - 7 Mar 2011
 
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Kala azar

One year after opening a kala azar center in Sudan

“This last year MSF, with the Ministry of Health, was able to save many lives,” said Kevin Coppock, MSF Head of Mission in Sudan. "We plan to share diagnostic tools with other health centers and provide training to local medical staff on performing a kala azar diagnostic test. This way people will not have to travel for hours to get tested, our hope is that we will be able to save many more lives.”   Press Release - 7 Mar 2011
 
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Women's health

The other Butterfly Effect: MSF treats women injured in childbirth

An estimated two million women live with fistula worldwide, most in Africa. This problem is largely hidden because it often affects young women who live in poor and remote areas, with very limited to no access maternal health care. Project Update - 7 Mar 2011
 
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HIV/AIDS

Thousands of HIV+ people march in Delhi with plea to Indian government

“More than 80% of the AIDS drugs our medical practitioners use to treat 175,000 people in developing countries are affordable generics from India,” said Paul Cawthorne, of MSF’s Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. “Beyond AIDS, we rely on producers in India for drugs to treat other illnesses, such as tuberculosis and malaria. We can not afford to let our patients’ lifeline be cut.” Press Release - 2 Mar 2011
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