Cholera spreading rapidly

MSF is increasing awareness campaigns for the local population in the hope of curbing the spread of the disease. Project Update - 18 Oct 2002

HIV/AIDS

Thai agency will begin production of drug for Aids

Last week, Thai Aids activists filed an additional lawsuit in Thailand challenging Bristol's patent over the drug on the grounds that the medicine lacks sufficient innovation to warrant patent protection. Project Update - 17 Oct 2002

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Border Stories: Imagine leaving your home and never coming back

MSF is presenting 'Border Stories', an exhibition of objects belonging to ten of the world's refugees. Project Update - 17 Oct 2002

Afghanistan

Afghanistan at one year

This year, over 1.5 million Afghans have already come back to their homeland. No-one had anticipated such high figures. All these people need food, shelter, drinking water and jobs. The country is nowhere near able to handle this. Many have simply exchanged one calamitous situation for another and are desperately searching for any means of survival - also in the South, where the persistent drought creates further complications. Project Update - 16 Oct 2002

Angola

Weak states in Africa - Angola: MSF statement to US Senate Subcommittee

Statement by Dr Morten Rostrup, International Council President of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 16, 2002 to the US Committee on Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs. Statement - 16 Oct 2002

Côte d'Ivoire

MSF prepares for possible refugee flows from Ivory Coast

"People in these kind of situations are very vulnerable .. (so) our medical teams will keep a close eye on the refugees in the transit camp to check their living conditions and to signal possible problems with protection, violence or abuses of any kind." - Jan Weuts, MSF Coordinator, Brussels. Project Update - 16 Oct 2002

Indonesia

MSF opens first AIDS care programme in Indonesia

The geography around Merauke makes transport and communication very difficult and time consuming. It can take between two hours by road to two days by boat to reach certain areas of the district. Project Update - 16 Oct 2002

Mental health

Mental health care crucial in emergency situations

A recent article published on September 6, 2002 in the National Post (Canada) questioned the usefulness of trauma counseling. For Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), psychosocial programmes are not only an essential response to human suffering but are part of an integrated approach for medical care. Project Update - 14 Oct 2002

War and conflict

War on terrorism and humanitarianism

A culture of near-total impunity has developed where transgressions of international humanitarian law are overlooked by western governments and the media, as long as they are carried out by 'allies'. There is developing a clear message that prosecutions for violations of international humanitarian law clearly do not apply to the victors. Project Update - 9 Oct 2002

Côte d'Ivoire

MSF reinforces team in Cote d'Ivoire and starts to deliver aid to Bouake

In the face of continued unrest, MSF has strengthened its team in the Ivory Coast in order to intervene in areas of conflict between rebels and government forces and in the main city, Abidjan. Project Update - 7 Oct 2002

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