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South Sudan

MSF responds to serious kala azar outbreak in southern Sudan

Following a serious outbreak of severe parasitic disease, kala azar, in southern Sudan, medical humanitarian aid agency, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is responding to the emergency in several locations across both Jonglei and Upper Nile States. Project Update - 6 Nov 2009
 
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Eswatini

TB and HIV/AIDS in Swaziland

The small kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa is on the brink of a major health crisis due to the killer twin-epidemic of HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), which is decimating the population and now sees Swaziland as the state with one of the highest Aids death rates in the world today. Project Update - 28 Oct 2009
 
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Greece

Overcrowded cells and deteriorating living conditions cause tension inside Pagani Detention Center

The needs for psychosocial support are much greater and, day by day, the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team realizes that they could have provided much more help, if at least the basic humanitarian needs of the migrants were met. Project Update - 26 Oct 2009
 
Tuberculosis

The underfunding of TB research across Europe

Report - 21 Oct 2009
 
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Malaria

Malaria: Introducing ACT from Asia to Africa

The introduction of rapid tests and ACTs in MSF missions, along with the plea for their accessibility in public structures in African countries, opened the way for accurate diagnosis and effective treatment. MSF’s participation in their introduction through work in humanitarian circumstances (war refugees, neglected epidemics) and the long mediation process (from Asia to Africa, from Chinese science to international norms, from one economic model to another, etc.) remind us that medical progress arises not only from the most sophisticated research laboratories but also from the porosity of borders and from improbable meetings between refugees, researchers, and clinicians. msf-crash.org - 13 Oct 2009
 
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Access to medicines

MSF calls on drug companies to pool HIV patents

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on nine of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies to help accelerate the availability of new treatments for millions of people living with HIV/AIDS by pooling their patents on a list of key HIV medicines. Press Release - 30 Sep 2009
 
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Russia

Hope for peace in Ingushetia has given way to despair

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of few aid organizations which continue working in the republic and witnesses the severe impact violence is having on the population whose suffering goes largely unnoticed. Project Update - 29 Sep 2009
 
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Thailand

MSF welcomes promising HIV vaccine trial with cautious optimism

An HIV vaccine trial in Thailand involving 16,000 volunteers showed potentially promising results as transmission of the virus was cut by a third. MSF welcomes the initiative as it opens up a new chapter in HIV vaccine research. Project Update - 28 Sep 2009
 
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Central African Republic

Nutritional emergency: The last straw

Interview with Dr Carol Calero, MSF field doctor working in the nutritional emergency in southeastern Central African Republic. Interview - 22 Sep 2009
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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