MSF 'Top-Ten' under-reported stories of 2000

MSF third annual list of the most under-reported humanitarian stories of the year. The organization compiled the list to call attention to human crises that were largely ignored by the U.S. press during 2000. Project Update - 19 Jan 2001

El Salvador

MSF provides first assistance after earthquake

MSF has ongoing operations in El Salvador and has now moved to assist emergency operations in the capital, San Salvador, following an earthquake that struck 55 kilometres south of Playa Blanca, which is 100 kilometres from the capital, San Salvador, on 12 January. Project Update - 15 Jan 2001

Ebola and haemorrhagic fevers

New ebola case means outbreak continues

The ebola outbreak that has affected Uganda since September, 2000 has declined to minimal levels in recent days. Project Update - 11 Jan 2001

Access to Healthcare

Leishmaniasis information

Cholera

Cholera definition and MSF treatment

"Usually the patient is moribund, eyes sunken back into the skull, literally minutes away from death. It may be a small child, or a mother, or an elderly man. Then comes the struggle to find a vein, and the first anxious moments as the IV drip starts to run. Always then I must move on to the next bed, and I may not have time to come back until many hours later. By then the patient has come back to life - sitting up, drinking, even managing a smile. It is the nearest thing to a miracle that a doctor ever gets to perform." - MSF field doctor, Bangladesh Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Pneumonia

Pneumonia definition and treatment

"You can prevent diarrhoea, you can prevent measles, you can even prevent malaria to some extent. But we've never been able to stop kids getting chest infections. They hit them like a truck." - MSF field doctor, Thailand. Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Sleeping sickness

A brief profile on sleeping sickness

Human African trypanosomiasis, the fatal neurological disease better known as sleeping sickness, was thought to be nearly eradicated by 1965 as a result of a sophisticated multinational diagnosis and treatment effort undertaken over a period of decades. Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Diarrhoeal disease

Diarrhoea definition and MSF treatment

"The scary thing about diarrhoea is how quickly it can kill a young child. Just a few squirts, a couple of vomits, and all the life has drained out of them. But then what I really love is watching how quickly they recover, almost in front of your eyes, once you get some fluids into them." - MSF field doctor, Uganda Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

HIV/AIDS

MSF basic information

"The worst is still to come in southern Africa. The region is facing human disaster on a scale it has never seen before." - Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis definition and treatment

People were saying, "Just push me off the bunk, I'm going to die anyway". - MSF field nurse in a prison hospital TB programme, Siberia Project Update - 1 Jan 2001

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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