The people already receive far less humanitarian aid than is needed, and the fighting reduces it even more. The rest of the world seems to have forgotten this region. Project Update - 23 May 2006

Access to medicines

MSF helps develop a simple rapid HIV/AIDS viral load test

Unlike currently available tests, the SAMBA test and its ingredients do not need to be refrigerated. The technology will also allow the test to be used as a point-of-care test, and provide results while the patient is waiting. Project Update - 19 May 2006

War and conflict

Violence continues in Darfur as MSF treats 46 war wounded from latest attack

Of the wounded, 30 are civilians, including two women and four elderly men. Many of them required urgent surgery. Project Update - 15 May 2006

Access to Healthcare

Access to health care - Colombia's cycle of violence

There are many rural medical staff that assume exceptional levels of personal risk to provide medical attention. They frequently recount stories of armed groups exerting pressure and control over their movements or work.
Download the complete MSF report in PDF format: Living in Fear: Colombia's Cycle of Violence (English)
Vivir Con Miedo (Espagnol) Project Update - 27 Apr 2006

Democratic Republic of Congo

'Ketudi Byakudya' - We don't have enough food

Executive summary to the MSF Report: Food, nutrition and mortality situation of IDP's in Dubie, Katanga 23-25 March 2006. Project Update - 10 Apr 2006

Lesotho

Lesotho's painfully slow fight to treat HIV

Despite all the money and attention, the rollout of treatment in Lesotho has been glacially slow. This raises some alarming questions, because in many ways, this ought to be a comparatively easy country in which to respond to AIDS: It's tiny; it's culturally, ethnically and linguistically homogeneous; and it's peaceful and democratic. Project Update - 6 Apr 2006

Somalia

MSF launches new health care project in Galgaduud

MSF increases its efforts to bring desperately needed medical aid to the people of Somalia. The organisation's new project aims at providing free health care to the impoverished population of the country's Galgaduud region. Project Update - 3 Apr 2006

Uganda

Two decades of conflict take toll on northern Uganda

As the sun sets, the ragged children begin to arrive. By 11pm, the huge plastic tents that make up the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) shelter are filled with shapes wrapped in blankets, safe for a few hours at least. Project Update - 30 Mar 2006

South Sudan

Those too ill to walk or too poor to be carried, in time, simply die

Getting to an MSF health post can be a challenge for the sick. Few roads, many swamps and the constant threat from people in the villages en route. Project Update - 27 Mar 2006

South Sudan

Treating TB in southern Sudan

In the last four years, 991 patients have been treated for tuberculosis (TB) at the health center that MSF set up in Akuem, southern Sudan. The teams have established a streamlined treatment method, but caring for patients with this disease is still a complex undertaking. Project Update - 23 Mar 2006

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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MSF facilities looted - for many Sudanese life is just as difficult now as before the peace accord