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South Africa

Retaining health workers: the basics

"I make 3,000,000 Méticais ($US 115) a month. With this, I can buy one bag of rice, one bottle of oil, and pay the energy at home. I'm borrowing money from my neighbours because I cannot afford to send my children to school."
- Maria, 44, Paediatric Nurse, Tete Health Center No.2, Mozambique
Project Update - 24 May 2007
 
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Armenia

TB treatment casts shadow of uncertainty

Project Update - 23 May 2007
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

A delayed arrival in Katanga

In Dubie, they start to prepare for a caesarean section, but during the car ride to the hospital, Chantal regained consciousness. Voices from the Field - 23 May 2007
 
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Niger

Is the struggle against acute malnutrition in Niger gaining ground?

We hope that in 2007 we will achieve results that are comparable to those in 2006 (when there were few cases of severe malnutrition), while at the same time developing a program that is easier to manage. Project Update - 21 May 2007
 
Patients wait to be examined at the Thyolo District Hospital. 
Since 1997, MSF has been developing a comprehensive HIV/AIDS and TB support programme in the Thyolo district, a rural district in the southern region of Malawi.   This district has a population estimated at close to 500,000 people with a prevalence rate for HIV infection among adults of close to 20 %.  Annually more than 1,300 tuberculosis patients are being detected of whom close to 80 % test HIV+.  Thyolo district has at present more than 57,000 adults and children living with HIV/AIDS of whom close to 10,000 people with advanced HIV/AIDS disease and therefore in need of antiretroviral treatment.  
By the end of 2005, a total of 3737 patients had ever started HAART in Thyolo  district, 3,153  at the  district hospital, and 584 in Malamulo mission hospital. MSF also implemented a "pilot" Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme in the district hospital.
HIV/AIDS

Help wanted: confronting the healthcare worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment

This report focuses on the impact of human resource shortages witnessed by MSF teams in four southern African countries - Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and South Africa. While the focus is largely on nurses in rural areas, it should be acknowledged that health staff is lacking across the spectrum - from doctors to laboratory technicians to pharmacists - at all levels of care. Report - 18 May 2007
 
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Palestine

MSF reacts to charges issued against Palestinian staff member

Mr. Mossaab Bashir, a member of the staff of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Gaza Strip, was charged by an Israeli court with "contact with a foreign agent" and "conspiracy to commit a crime". Project Update - 17 May 2007
 
The international humanitarian organisation  Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the pervasive and systematic use of rape and violence perpetrated by the Angolan army during the expulsions of Congolese migrants working in diamond mines in the Angolan province of Lunda Norte. MSF teams arrived in Western Kasaï - a Congolese province bordering Angola -  in October and are providing care to victims of sexual violence. They have also collected one hundred testimonies exposing collective rape and physical abuse widely perpetrated by the Angolan military. 
 
 Femme congolaise violée par l¿armée angolaise, puis refoulée à la frontière à Kamako (Kasaï occidental) en attente d¿une consultation médicale au centre de MSF.
Angola

The Women Testify

10 woman tell their Angolan ordeal. Report - 12 May 2007
 
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Nigeria

Providing emergency medical care to victims of violence in the Niger Delta

As in other countries, massive wealth derived from abundant natural resources â€" oil, in Nigeria's case â€" contrasts with widespread poverty and inadequate medical services. Project Update - 11 May 2007
 
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Brazil

AIDS DRUGS: Brazil, Thailand override big pharma patents

Although a handful of countries have issued compulsory licenses for AIDS drugs without kicking up much of a fuss, all involved older, first-generation drugs. Now the second-line treatments are at stake. Economist Love adds that big pharma feels threatened that this movement could go beyond AIDS to heart disease and other ailments. "There's a big push in Thailand to do it for everything," says Love. Project Update - 11 May 2007
 
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Thailand

Thailand turns giant pharma killer

"All Compulsory licenses have done is to open up a monopolistic market to competition," says Cawthorn of MSF . "Why should the pharmaceutical companies be worried about that?" Project Update - 10 May 2007
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.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

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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