Armenian project improves access to healthcare during first year

"We really had to start from scratch with some of our local staff. Every thing from waste disposal management to attitudes towards the patients had to be tackled. When we first arrived, waste disposal management simply consisted of throwing things out the window," he explains. Project Update - 1 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

Republic of Congo

MSF returns to projects in the Pool region, Congo Brazzaville

Medical teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have resumed their activities in three districts within the Republic of Congo's southern Pool region, the organization has announced. Project Update - 22 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

Chad

Everyday brings one or more wounded to Adré Hospital

Thierry Allafort-Duverger, head of MSF's emergency desk in France, has just returned from a visit to Chad. Clashes in the region of Adré, on the border with Sudan, have caused deaths and injuries. This heavy instability has also led to further population displacement and is hampering humanitarian aid efforts. Project Update - 17 Feb 2006

Sudan

The chronic insecurity has led us to redefine and step up our activities

In western Darfur, the violent confrontations of 2004 have given way to a situation of chronic instability characterized by persistent violence affecting all those living in the province. For MSF, the challenge is to continue to provide medical assistance to people with on-going major needs, to remain responsive in the event of new emergencies and, despite the insecurity, to provide high-quality assistance. Dr. Pauline Horrill, MSF's program manager for Sudan, and Fabrice Weissman, head of our Darfur mission, offer an update. Project Update - 16 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

Democratic Republic of Congo

Rutshuru, DRC: Attacks on civilians causes thousands to flee

So far MSF staff have been unable to access this remaining population around Kibirizi, they are most likely to be in desperate need of help. Those who have managed to reach Kanyabayonga have spent one or two days walking, fleeing with only the belongings they could carry. Project Update - 13 Feb 2006

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