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MSF releases 2007 Top Ten most under-reported humanitarian stories

The countries and contexts highlighted by MSF on this year's list accounted for just 18 minutes of coverage on the three major U.S. television networks' nightly newscasts from January through November 2007.
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Press Release - 20 Dec 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Cholera and malnutrition add to the extreme suffering in North Kivu, DRC

Access to health care for these people was already weak, but is even more limited today. The fighting has forced several aid organisations to suspend their activities, and health centres are not getting any supplies, or are deserted by the medical staff. Displaced people cannot farm their land or access their food stocks, meaning that displaced people lose their only means of subsistence. Press Release - 19 Dec 2007
 
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Somalia

Displaced populations fleeing war in Mogadishu face a dramatic situation

On the road to Afgooye, an estimated 200,000 displaced people fleeing Somalia's capital city are living in incredibly difficult sanitary conditions. Mortality and health indicators are largely above emergency levels. Press Release - 11 Dec 2007
 
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Angola

The Angolan Government must put an end to the abuses committed by its army against Congolese migrants during their expulsion from the country

MSF teams arrived in Western Kasa, a Congolese province bordering Angola, in October and are providing care to victims of sexual violence. They have also collected 100 testimonies exposing collective rape and physical abuse widely perpetrated by the Angolan military. Press Release - 5 Dec 2007
 
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Neglected diseases

People with AIDS in southeast Asia needlessly becoming blind due to a neglected virus

"This is a classic case of the vicious circle," said Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Director of the MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. "Because the price of the drug is so high, HIV programmes aren't screening and therefore are not reporting large numbers of CMV patients. But since on paper there are so few patients, bringing down the price of this treatment and ensuring its availability has never been a priority." Press Release - 30 Nov 2007
 
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Nigeria

Free comprehensive care for HIV treatment must be provided to Nigerians

MSF calls for increased commitment in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Press Release - 30 Nov 2007
 
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South Sudan

Patients and family members killed inside MSF compound

"This is an outrageous act and a serious breach of the safety that a hospital should provide" - MSF Press Release - 29 Nov 2007
 
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Somalia

No safe place in Mogadishu

Press Release - 7 Nov 2007
 
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Access to medicines

UN health talks could lead to new ways of developing urgently needed drugs and diagnostics

Because tests are either antiquated or too high-tech, we don't have any practical tool to diagnose TB in people with HIV - who are precisely the ones most at risk of dying. Press Release - 5 Nov 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Nearing control of the outbreak, but vigilance still required

In around 20 villages located within a 30 kilometer radius around Kampungu, MSF visits health structures every day. Press Release - 1 Oct 2007
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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