Bare bone facts about Somalia - an MSF briefing document

MSF has been working in Somalia since 1986. We saw the terrible build up of slaughter and famine that eventually produced the American led and UN backed military intervention on November 9 1992. The civil war that erupted after the fall of the long-term dictatorship of Siad Barre smashed central authority and stimulated a multiplication of clan factions struggling for local power. Project Update - 9 Dec 2002

Somalia

MSF action in Somalia in 2002

MSF has been working in Somalia since 1986 when it began emergency medical interventions in Somaliland. Project Update - 9 Dec 2002

Burundi

Malaria epidemic threatens Burundi

Two provinces have passed emergency thresholds and now anti-malaria treatment shall be provided free by the Government of Burundi in area clinics in order to halt the increase. Project Update - 5 Dec 2002

Philippines

After ten years, MSF closes street children project in Manila

Next year an exploratory mission will spend three to four months in the Philippines to identify other medical problems in the archipelago that MSF should tackle. Project Update - 2 Dec 2002

Access to medicines

ART projects in 2002 - MSF basic facts and figures

In 2003, MSF will at least double the number of patients under antiretroviral therapy (ART) in its existing programmes. In addition, MSF will double the number of countries where it is providing ART programmes. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Access to medicines

Access denied to essential medicines in developing world

The WHO has warned that, although access to essential drugs has improved remarkably since the introduction of its model list of essential drugs in 1977, one third of the world's population still lacks access to these drugs. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day - 2002

Last year 3.1 million people worldwide died of AIDS. MSF is pushing governments and NGOs to dramatically expand AIDS treatment in developing countries. Of the 42 million people suffering from HIV/AIDS today, 95% live in developing countries. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Cameroon

Cameroon/ART: Making triple therapy availble to low incomes

In March 2001, prices for first-line ARVs dropped from US$10,000 to US$277 per patient per year. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Guatemala

Guatemala/ART: MSF priority goes to low-income patients

MSF plans to double the number of patients under ART next year, and to include children in the programmes. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Malawi

Malawi/ART: MSF increases numbers of patients each week

Huge numbers of orphans one of the more shocking consequences of the AIDS davastation. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

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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