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Malaria

'There's no room for a second chance'

Malaria is an ever-present problem in sub-Saharan African countries taking a huge human and economic toll on countries.
Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Iraq

Reestablishing leadership is the pressing medical need in Iraq

The problems in hospitals in Baghdad are no longer related to lack of transport, security or so on as much as disorganisation and a lack of administration. What we are seeing is a power vacuum in Iraq in general and very clearly in the hospitals. - Dr Morten Rostrup, President, MSF International Council. Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

WHO demands bigger effort against malaria

The report came as emergency medical aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) appealed for donor nations to come up with more cash to help malaria-infected nations switch to new drug cocktails from now-defunct old single remedies.
Africa Malaria Day 2003 - index
Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

Useless malaria drugs are no better than Smarties

There are studies in Senegal for example which shows that the death rate from malaria has increased three or four times during the time that resistance to chloroquine has been rising in the last ten years. Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

Doctors call for cash to beat child killer malaria

Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

Spend more to save children from malaria, west urged

MSF made its plea for action as the WHO and Unicef launched a report on the malaria crisis. Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
Hospital of BUNJEI. A child is looking over his sister who suffers cerebral malaria.
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Malaria

Africa 'needs better malaria drugs'

Africa Malaria Day 2003 Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
Malaria treatment programme in Kigova, Burundi, July 2002
Testing people for malaria using Paracheck.
Malaria

ACT NOW to get malaria treatment that works to Africa

This is an urgent call to international donors to join African countries in implementing World Health Organization (WHO) treatment guidelines for malaria. Report - 24 Apr 2003
 
Liberia, July 2002, Monrovia, Bushrod Island, Logan clinic.
A Lab Technician is testing for malaria.
Malaria

Q&A: ACT NOW to get malaria treatment that works to Africa

We need to implement ACT today. We need to ACT NOW. Project Update - 24 Apr 2003
 
Patients hospitalises a Kaala. Des moustiquaire sont repliees au dessus des lits.

En fevrier 2002, les equipes MSF a Kaala sont alertees par un nombre important d'enfants malnutris venant de Bunjei (110 km au sud de Kaala), une zone inaccessible depuis 1998, amenes par des camions militaires et civils au CNT de Kaala. Pour faire face a l'afflux de ces enfants arrivant dans un etat critique, deux nouveaux CNT sont ouverts.  Fin mars, MSF obtient enfin l'autorisation de se deplacer a Bunjei. Jusqu'en juin, les equipes mobiles circulent dans les municipios (communes) de Bunjei, Chilembo, Chipindo, Galangue, Sambo et Bailundo, vaccinent contre la rougeole et evacuent les mal nourris et malades severes sur Kaala, Bailundo ou Huambo. Au pic de la crise, il y aura plus de 1 200 enfants dans les CNT de Kaala et 800 a Bailundo. Toutes sections confondues, MSF a ouvert 23 CNT pendant l'epoque de la grande crise et a soigne plus de 17 000 enfants severement mal nourris a travers l'Angola.
Malaria

Africa Malaria Day 2003: MSF says foot-dragging on malaria treatment change has lethal consequences

The continuing use of ineffective drugs despite alarming levels of resistance is leading to increased treatment failure and deaths. Press Release - 24 Apr 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.
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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