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Liberia

Chaos and fear returns to Monrovia as ceasefire is tested to its limits

"As we drove back towards the centre of Monrovia we saw thousands more people removing the precious tarpaulin from their shelters and leaving their homes in the only direction possible: away from the sound of fighting. Little children carrying sacks on their heads heavier than their own skinny bodies, old women stumbling with mattresses along the roads, mothers carrying screaming children and bundles of food" - MSF press officer Lucy Clayton is currently stationed in Monrovia, Liberia. Project Update - 25 Jun 2003
 
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Malawi

Life continues - in spite of HIV

"Africa is dying! Protect yourselves against HIV!". This is how the President of Malawi campaigns for the use of condoms. But already almost a million of the near ten million inhabitants of this country are HIV-positive. The educational programs are not helping any longer. They need medical help to survive. In July 2001, Médecins Sans Frontières began to treat HIV/Aids patients with antiretroviral medicines in the Chiradzulu hospital. Dr Norbert Lüneborg reports from this pilot project. Project Update - 24 Jun 2003
 
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Humanitarian challenges

Bush to NGOs: Watch your mouths

For aid workers, there are even more strings attached to U.S. dollars. USAID told several NGOs that have been awarded humanitarian contracts that they cannot speak to the media -- all requests from reporters must go through Washington. Mary McClymont, CEO of InterAction, calls the demands "unprecedented," and says, "It looks like the NGOs aren't independent and can't speak for themselves about what they see and think." Project Update - 20 Jun 2003
 
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Somalia

MSF opens new clinic in Doble

Previously, area Somalis were forced to cross the nearby border into Kenya in order to access medical services in the Dadaab refugee camp. Project Update - 19 Jun 2003
 
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Côte d'Ivoire

Sick, hungry and traumatised displaced

Health services have collapsed and have been looted. Most health staff have fled the region. Project Update - 19 Jun 2003
 
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Access to medicines

Public health and company wealth

The director of the International Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Federation recently said: "For people with no income or little income, price is a barrier. I mean I can't afford certainly a car of my dreams, you know, which might be a Jaguar XJE." Project Update - 13 Jun 2003
 
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Access to medicines

A fatal imbalance in medical treatment

One shouldn't have to be a Rockefeller to have access to life-saving medicines. Project Update - 12 Jun 2003
 
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Chad

Camp opens for 15,000 refugees

On June 11, a new refugee camp was opened in Amboko, near Goré in southern Chad. The camp has a capacity for 15,000 refugees who have fled the fighting in the neighbouring Central African Republic (CAR) and are unable to return due to a continued atmosphere of heightened insecurity. Project Update - 12 Jun 2003
 
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Liberia

Last remaining public hospital in Monrovia abandoned

In the city, hundreds of thousands and possibly up to one million people are on the run. Many have been displaced for years and find themselves now literally driven to the edge, in the south of Monrovia on the coast. Press Release - 11 Jun 2003
 
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Liberia

Over one million in need of protection, shelter, food and water

Health services in Monrovia are all but non-existent. Sanitation is limited. There are over one million people displaced and few aid organisations remain. Project Update - 11 Jun 2003
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We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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