SARS protection supplies donated to Hong Kong hospital authority

MSF has donated 40 boxes of various protection materials to the Hospital Authority to support medical staff in dealing the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong. Project Update - 10 Apr 2003

Republic of Congo

Health levels inadequate Congo Brazzaville IDP camps

During its assessments, the team also learnt that primary health care services were inadequate to meet the medical needs of the population; access and availability of drugs for malaria, diarrhoea and respiratory infections were poor. Project Update - 9 Apr 2003

Colombia

In Colombia, MSF works against yellow fever outbreak

Yellow fever is endemic in this zone and the low vaccination coverage makes this high conflict area a time bomb. Project Update - 9 Apr 2003

Côte d'Ivoire

Mobile healthcare project in south west of Ivory Coast

For security reasons, the clinics there have been at a standstill for several months. Project Update - 9 Apr 2003

Somalia

MSF expands activities in southern Somalia

MSF has started providing the local hospital with systematic support and, so far, has been training the staff in general medical skills. Project Update - 9 Apr 2003

Chad

MSF flies in extra supplies and staff for deteriorating refugee situation in Chad

There are 30 MSF international aid workers currently in the field assisting the UNHCR in identifying sites and constructing new camps in Maro and Goré. Project Update - 7 Apr 2003

El Salvador

Preventing mother to child HIV transmission in El Salvador

In the MSF HIV/AIDS programme in El Salvador, the organisation is working to identify and treat HIV mothers in order to prevent HIV being passed on to their children. Project Update - 24 Mar 2003

Iraq

MSF supports casualty staff in Baghdad hospital

On the night of Saturday March 22, the team from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) joined staff at the 250-bed al-Kindi General Hospital in northeast Baghdad taking on a support capacity. Project Update - 24 Mar 2003

Iraq

Humanitarian concerns in the war in Iraq

MSF feels it is imperative that warring parties minimize the impact on civilians and prevent human suffering. Civilians should not be targeted, nor should goods or assets essential to human survival. MSF also witnessed the aftermath of one coalition bombing-raid that killed and injured dozens of civilians in the Tora Bora region in late 2001. Project Update - 21 Mar 2003

Tuberculosis

The Aral Sea disappears while tuberculosis climbs

The rate of infection here is among the highest in the world. In Uzbekistan about 13 percent of new cases are multi-resistant, while among those patients who have been treated previously for tuberculosis, 40 percent have MDR-TB. This type of tuberculosis hits harder here than most other places in the world. Project Update - 19 Mar 2003

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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