Project Update - 2 Jun 2010

Typhon Ondoy, Angono, novembre 2009.<br/>Clinique mobile : consultation de Lisa Triger, médecin, dans le centre d¿évacuation de Pag asa *** Local Caption *** In Manila and its surrounding areas, MSF teams are working to provide medical care and distribution of non-food items to the most vulnerable people affected by three typhon and tropical storms in october and november 2009. Dozens of thousands of people still live in flooded areas in critical conditions in the slums near a canal east of Manila and in the north and south-east Laguna de Bay area. These people are particularly vulnerable because either they live in crowded evacuations centers or in partially flooded houses.

International Financial Report 2009

Annual Report - 30 May 2010

People wait to be attended at Chamanculo Hospital in Mozambique, Aug. 2009. Infrastructure is a major concern in Mozambique, the majority of people are treated at the large Health Facilities in the country, comprising of 3 central hospitals, 7 provincial hospitals, 31 rural and general hospitals. Health sites outside of those lack resources such as health care workers, infrastructure, equipment, supplies, sources of electricity and water.

HIV/AIDS

No time to quit: HIV/AIDS treatment gap widening in Africa

Titled “No time to quit: HIV/AIDS treatment gap widening in Africa”, the report builds on analyses made in eight sub-Saharan countries to illustrate how major international funding institutions such as PEPFAR, the World Bank, UNITAID, and donors to the Global Fund have decided to cap, reduce or withdraw their spending on HIV treatment and antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) over the past year and a half. Report - 27 May 2010

HIV/AIDS

Donor retreat widens HIV/AIDS treatment gap in Africa

Backtracking by international donors in funding HIV/AIDS risks undermining years of positive achievements and will cause many more unnecessary deaths, warns humanitarian aid group MSF in a new report. Press Release - 27 May 2010

Somalia

Eye surgery camp with 'Right To Sight' returns vision to hundreds in Galcayo, Somalia

The impact on lives is devastating, especially in a country where many people face a daily struggle to survive. Eye surgery can have a huge impact on the lives of patients, improving their ability to live a dignified and healthy life. Project Update - 25 May 2010

Democratic Republic of Congo

Many challenges still remain in North East DRC

The areas of Haut-Uélé and Bas-Uélé in the north east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been prey to violence and armed conflict since late 2008. Pierre Kernen, who coordinated MSF's activities in Niangara between August 2009 and April 2010, describes the situation for the populations in the region and the challenges to humanitarian aid. Voices from the Field - 20 May 2010

Haiti

Time passes, medical needs persist and just a few months to hurricane season

In a country where 60 percent of the medical facilities suffered serious damage or were destroyed, MSF is working to meet second-line medical needs by managing or supporting hospitals and specialised medical facilities. Project Update - 20 May 2010

Neglected diseases

MSF and DNDi call for a more rounded resolution on Chagas disease

The resolution, 'Chagas Disease: Control and Elimination', to be adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is a step in the right direction but should not focus only on prevention. Project Update - 17 May 2010

Zimbabwean asylum seekers at the Methodist Church in Johannesburg. Up to two thousand Zimbabweans, many of them victims of the 2008 xenophpbic violence in South Africa, seek shelter nightly at the church for security. South Africa is polishing its image internationally ahead of the World Cup in June, but faces a host of challenges related to crime and poverty. Just steps from one of the main World Cup stadiums, thousands of foreigners, many of them refugees from Zimbabwe, squat in squalid conditions in abandoned downtown buildings. Some have been in evicted by authorities.

South Africa

MSF calls attention to continuing dangers faced by survival migrants and refugees in South Africa

"What has changed for our patients in the last year? Very little. They are still risking their lives when they cross the border, raped in shocking numbers by gangs, and then facing uncertainty about their status in the country. Many go on to a life in Johannesburg that continues to endanger their health," says Mickael Le Paih, head of mission for MSF in South Africa. Press Release - 12 May 2010

Nigeria

Lead poisoning continues to affect hundreds of children in northwestern Nigeria

Earlier this year, cases of lead poisoning in children and adults were confirmed in five villages in Zamfara state, northwestern Nigeria. Since early June, MSF, in collaboration with Ministry of Health, has been providing emergency treatment for children under five years of age and breast feeding mothers, as they are the most vulnerable group to be affected by the poisoning. Project Update - 10 May 2010

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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MSF provides support to displaced after flooding in Belet Weyne, Somalia