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Iraq

The fight of the wounded is far from over in Iraq

This is a considerable undertaking for a private organization like Médecins Sans Frontières, but it probably addresses only a marginal share of the needs in a country like Iraq, gripped by a violence that produces victims whose number and type of wounds far outstrip the capacity of a private medical organization. Project Update - 28 Sep 2009
 
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Sri Lanka

Health situation in Vavuniya district

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is ready to scale up its activities to assist the Ministry of Health in their efforts to provide quality health care in the camps and during the resettlement process. Project Update - 24 Sep 2009
 
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Access to Healthcare

Charging patients in poor countries for medical care compromises the health and lives of large numbers of people

Mit Philips, MSF Health Policy Analyst, explains why it is urgently needed to make medical care free of charge for poor populations.
Voices from the Field - 18 Sep 2009
 
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Ethiopia

As diarrhoea outbreak in Ethiopia decreases, upcoming mass religious festival poses new risk

Beyond Addis Ababa, MSF is also responding to acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) in two other regions: in Afar, in the north east, where more than 1,000 people have been treated since early July, and in Amhara region in the east. Project Update - 17 Sep 2009
 
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Flood

Massive floods in West Africa bring enormous displacement levels as MSF increases assistance in Burkino Faso and Niger

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reinforced its teams in Burkina Faso and Niger to provide assistance, along with the Ministry of Health, to the displaced people, following flooding in West Africa. Project Update - 14 Sep 2009
 
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Greece

People without any hope living in the Pagani detention center in Lesvos, Greece

Ioanna Kotsioni, MSF Deputy Head of Mission for MSF's project providing assistance to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Greece, has visited the project in the Pagani detention center in Lesvos and shares with us her experience inside the detention center. Project Update - 10 Sep 2009
 
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Pakistan

For those caught in the fighting in Pakistan, it is 'too dangerous to stay, even more dangerous to go'

Chris Lockyear spent most of 2008/9 as MSF Head of Mission to Pakistan. This was his sixth mission with MSF, following periods in Somalia, North Sudan and Darfur.
Voices from the Field - 10 Sep 2009
 
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Niger

MSF provides assistance to displaced families after severe floods in Agadez, Niger

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, already present in the city of Agadez, started providing emergency assistance in order to meet the urgent needs of the affected population. Project Update - 8 Sep 2009
 
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Papua New Guinea

First cholera outbreak in 50 years in Papua New Guinea moves from small town to provincial capital

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the cholera outbreak by assisting the Ministry of Health in setting up a cholera treatment centre in the hospital. Project Update - 7 Sep 2009
 
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India

MSF response to India's rejection of patents on key HIV/AIDS drugs

India has rejected patents on two life-saving HIV/AIDS drugs, tenofovir and darunavir. Press Release - 2 Sep 2009
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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