Medecins Sans Frontieres is shocked and saddened by the deaths of a large number of Iraqi and international staff in yesterday's brutal attack on the United Nations office in Baghdad. Press Release - 20 Aug 2003

Iraq

Security issues limiting MSF development in Iraq

On August 15, the situation in Basra had climbed to the point that the MSF team stationed there had to evacuate and are now evaluating the situation for continuing the project and returning to the area. Project Update - 20 Aug 2003

Liberia

Surge of action as MSF teams extends reach into Liberia

Three rapid assessments have shown the overwhelming absence of health care. Clinics are being restocked, nutritional surveys undertaken, cholera units reopened and measles vaccination campaigns started. Project Update - 18 Aug 2003

HIV/AIDS

Demystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings

Today, the debate centres on if antiretroviral therapy is possible in severely resource-constrained environments, and, increasingly, on the best ways to deliver these drugs. In a poor township 30 kilometers outside Cape Town, South Africa, MSF set out to grapple with both of these issues.
Project Update - 15 Aug 2003

Iraq

Basra team evacuated

Project Update - 15 Aug 2003

HIV/AIDS

Selecting patients for antiretroviral therapy

This sub-article accompanies the feature Demystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings. Project Update - 15 Aug 2003

Tuberculosis

Patient-centred approaches to ARV therapy adherence

This sub-article accompanies the feature Demystifying antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings . Click on link for complete article. Project Update - 15 Aug 2003

Pakistan

MSF starts assistance for flood victims

"With a cyclone in 1999, an earthquake in 2001 and a five-year drought brought abruptly to an end with the recent floods, these people are being dealt one hard blow after another," reports Ronald Farnon for MSF in Quetta. Project Update - 15 Aug 2003

Afghanistan

Diphtheria outbreak in Zhare Dasht IDP camp

The residents of Zhare Dasht camp in Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan are facing a rare outbreak of diphtheria - an infectious disease that has been all but eradicated in the western world. MSF started treatment of the patients and has embarked on a mass vaccination campaign to prevent further spread of the disease. Project Update - 14 Aug 2003

Russia

Investigation of Arjan Erkel case a "failure" of Russsian authorities

"The investigation was halted in November 2002 and only reopened in May 2003. We were not told of this but instead authorities kept assuring us they were doing everything to secure Arjan's release," said Dr. Morten Rostrup, International President of MSF. Press Release - 12 Aug 2003

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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Attack on UN office in Baghdad: MSF shocked and saddened