The announcement by one of the main armed factions in Somalia, Al Shabaab, that foreign relief organizations would be welcomed into territories under their control has raised hopes for a desperately needed scale-up of assistance inside the country. Project Update - 8 Jul 2011

Pakistan

Despite increased support, limited access prevents the scope of MSF intervention in Kurram Agency, Pakistan

For several years now, the limitation of access to Kurram for our international staff, including medical specialists, is limiting our intervention. The support provided by MSF in Kurram could be extended, replicated to other hospitals and to other FATA agencies, if access restrictions to these areas were lessened. Project Update - 8 Jul 2011

In the laboratory of Maradi, a team of a dozen people receive about 1,200 specimens (blood, urine/stool, mothers' breast milk...) every week, to be analyzed for the trial. The specimens taken in the morning, whether by the medical teams at the five health centres involved in the study or by the field workers or assistant nurses at the patients' homes, arrive at the laboratory in Maradi in the early afternoon.
Four samples are necessary to meet the requirements of the protocol. One of them is for the rotavirus test, another is for the laboratory in Cincinnati, USA (only if the test is positive for rotavirus) and the two other samples are kept in freezers (at between -85°C and -72°C) for the archives, in case they are needed later.

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Libya

'As war goes on, people's needs are growing'

“All kinds of people who have never worked in a hospital before are working in medical facilities and caring for others: trying to re-open medical structures or to help with nursing care. A dentist has been working in an emergency department, while an accountant has been sweeping floors. But how long can they hold on? They are constantly working, and they sometimes fall asleep the moment there are no emergency cases.” Voices from the Field - 5 Jul 2011

Democratic Republic of Congo

As cholera epidemic spreads in DRC, MSF opens emergency treatment centres along Congo river

The three major factors that promote the spread of cholera are all currently present in DRC: dense urban population; a lack of hygiene and little access to clean water; and the confirmed presence of the disease in several locations. In a country where the health system is faltering, this outbreak comes at a time when several other medical emergencies are already causing havoc, in particular a measles epidemic that is raging in several provinces. Project Update - 4 Jul 2011

Democratic Republic of Congo

Mass rape expands range and depth of violence against villagers in DRC

“Fear, nightmares and psychosomatic body pain are just some of the psychosocial problems experienced by victims of sexual violence. For women, the stigma of rape often means rejection by their families, and even the community as a whole. Voices from the Field - 4 Jul 2011

Access to Healthcare

MSF reforms its highest international governance structures

The first meeting of the International General Assembly and election of members of the International Board will take place in December, 2011, in Paris, also marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of MSF in 1971. Project Update - 1 Jul 2011

Libya

Trapped in transit: the neglected victims of the war in Libya

As fighting continues to force civilians out of Libya, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls the countries engaged in this war for a stronger humanitarian response and more effective protection for the people who are fleeing the conflict. Press Release - 30 Jun 2011

Nolitha Tsilana, a MSF nurse, delivers TB pills to a patient at Lizo Nobanda TB Care Centre in Khayelitsha township, Cape Town.

HIV/AIDS

Khayelitsha Activity Report 2001-2011: 10 Years of HIV/TB Care at Primary Health Care Level

This report highlights what has been achieved collectively by several service providers (Province of Western Cape, City of Cape Town, NGO and Community Based organizations) and describes the key clinical programme and policy changes that have supported universal coverage for HIV and TB care over the last 10 years. Report - 29 Jun 2011

Somalia

Frontline: One of the largest refugee camps in the world is full and hundreds more arrive every day

Somali refugees escaping the conflict in their country continue to arrive en masse in Dadaab, Kenya. Three camps now hold close to four times the number of people they were built for; collectively they form one of the largest refugee camps in the word. And yet newly arrived families can no longer get inside. Project Update - 28 Jun 2011

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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