Better access to treatment for Ethiopian kala azar patients

Up until now the bulk of the kala-azar patients were dependent on MSF or research institutions for medical care. MSF has treated more than 9,300 patients since the start of its kala-azar programmes in 1997. Project Update - 6 Mar 2006

Haiti

Haiti's poor suffer as world looks elsewhere

Doctors say the use of high-powered weapons in Cite Soleil's cramped maze of concrete and iron shacks produce astonishing wounds among the slum's innocent bystanders. Project Update - 3 Mar 2006

South Africa

MSF opens new HIV/AIDS programme in Lesotho

The MSF programme will be the first in Lesotho to decentralise comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment, including ART, to the primary health care level and provide it for free to patients. The challenges of doing so will be enormous. Project Update - 28 Feb 2006

Nigeria

Nigeria's food crisis was scarcely visible - but thousands of children were starving

From July 2005 to January 2006, medical teams from MSF treated nearly 13,000 severely malnourished children at one stabilization center and 12 outpatient therapeutic feeding sites in the northern Nigerian state of Katsina. By the end of the year, fewer and fewer children were admitted for treatment, so MSF handed the project over to local health authorities in January 2006. Project Update - 27 Feb 2006

South Sudan

MSF responding to severe cholera outbreak in Juba

More than 1,800 cases have been recorded in two weeks in a non-endemic area.
Press Release - 22 Feb 2006

Ethiopia

MSF leads a campaign to vaccinate 100,000 people in southern Ethiopia

Meningitis is endemic in Ethiopia and epidemics tend to break out particularly during the major dry season, from January to March. Press Release - 20 Feb 2006

Zambia

Cholera in Zambia: 'People do not want to talk about it. It's a dirty disease'

Christina Anderson is a 32 years old nurse from Sweden. On her second mission with MSF, this is the first time she is facing a cholera outbreak. She arrived in Zambia in the middle of January and, since then, has been supervising MSF activity in George Cholera Treatment Center (CTC), in the northern part of Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia, where the cholera outbreak has spread since last September. Project Update - 15 Feb 2006

Zambia

Cases still rising in cholera outbreak in Lusaka

At the beginning of February, more than 600 new cases were reporting every week. It is estimated that the outbreak has not yet reached its peak. The rainy season - when outbreaks usually occur - started in November and it will last until April. Project Update - 10 Feb 2006

Democratic Republic of Congo

Violence in Katanga, Introduction

Neither the Government nor the international community have shown an adequate commitment to fulfill their responsibilities to protect and assist these civilians in need. Having long been the informal suppliers of foodstuffs for both FARDC troops and Mai-Mai militia, civilian populations are increasingly abused, attacked and manipulated.
Download the MSF briefing paper on Katanga Project Update - 9 Feb 2006

Democratic Republic of Congo

The search for safe refuge and the lack of attention to IDPs in need

The displaced have found refuge in areas ill-equipped to receive them with little prepared for their arrival. Having arrived with nothing, they have largely been dependent upon the goodwill of host communities - for food, clothes, shoes, shelter...
Download the MSF briefing paper on Katanga Project Update - 9 Feb 2006

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