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Myanmar cyclone: MSF teams intensify emergency response, a first relief plane is due to land in Yangon

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MSF providing medical care and food, and improves access to clean water in some of the worst affected areas of Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy Delta... read more
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"Additional teams and key materials should arrive soon to help us scale up our relief effort," said Hugues Robert, Head of MSF Emergency Operations in Geneva. "We've had very constructive discussions with the authorities and the fact that they have given a green light for the first cargo plane to land on Saturday is a positive sign.

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At close of UN health summit, MSF calls for more ambitious R&D and political leadership
"Sticking to the status quo and putting all our faith on philanthropic organisations alone is not going to solve the problem," said Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Director of MSF's Access Campaign.
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Call for political courage to shake up medical R&D system
28/04/2008
MSF provides measles and meningitis vaccination to thousands of people in Nigeria
In northern Nigeria, MSF teams, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, have vaccinated 46,000 people against meningitis. MSF is also conducting meningitis case management in Katsina state. A vaccination campaign to treat 130,000 people at 11 sites in four different local governing areas will begin on Wednesday, April 30.
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Fuel crisis in Gaza: MSF is forced to scale back its medical activities
On several occasions, MSF has expressed its concern regarding the repercussions of this blockade on a population that is already severely affected by years of conflict.
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Southern Sudan: Giving birth is deadly

© Sven Torfinn
In the region, tradition has it that women give birth to their offspring in their mother's home. They only seek help in the event of complications, first and foremost turning to a traditional healer or an untrained midwife in the village.

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Sudan: Dying in peace
Video: A ten minute video feature showing the scope of needs and MSF activities in southern Sudan. MSF finds itself very much alone in most of the operational areas where we are present, and having to cope with much more needs than we would be comfortable with in other locations. We cannot be waiting for tomorrow.
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From the MSF national sites

AUSTRALIA:
Field Focus - Women's Health
ITALY:
Vi scrivo da...Galguduud
AUSTRIA:
Ärzte ohne Grenzen versorgt Verletzte in tschadischer Hauptstadt N?Djamena
JAPAN:
Top 10 most underreported humanitarian stories of 2007
BELGIUM:
(NL)Women Are Heroes
(Fr) Women Are Heroes
LUXEMBOURG:
MSF-LUX website
BRAZIL:
Darfur: um desafio ainda maior para a acao humanitaria
NORWAY:

"Er barnet i live?"
FRANCE:
NIGER:
MSF arrête ses activités à Dabaga, au nord d’Agadez
SOUTH AFRICA:
BLOG: A South African doctor in Darfur
DENMARK:
MSF appears in telenovela
SPAIN:
RDC: la respuesta de pacientes y sus familias, la clave del éxito de los programas de VIH/sida
CANADA:
Eng: Video Series : Violence, poverty and access to medical care in Colombia Série vidéo : Violence, pauvreté et accuse aux soins médicaux en Colombie (disponible en anglais seulement)
SWEDEN:
Mamma i Burundi
GERMANY:
D.R. Kongo: Cholera in verschiedenen St?ten Katangas ausgebrochen
SWITZERLAND:
FR: Mexique - Consultations médicales et Distribution de matériel
German: Mexiko - Medizinische Versorgung und Hilfsgüterverteilung
GREECE:
United Arab Emirate:
Home page
THE NETHERLANDS:
Wij blijven vechten. Geef ons de middelen, al vanaf €3 vecht je mee!
UNITED KINGDOM:
Nottingham nurse Anna Kent recounts her experiences in the heat of South Sudan
HONG KONG:
USA:
Sierra Leone: Treating Children with Malaria

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MSF has treated 850 people wounded in Mogadishu fighting since January
   Conflict in Somalia has escalated in recent weeks, with military operations carried out by armed groups increasing in densely-populated urban areas in and around Mogadishu.
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MSF welcomes new fixed-dose combination against malaria
   This new drug is an important additional tool for the better treatment for a disease that continues to kill over one million people each year globally, and kills a child every 30 seconds.
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MSF treats over 160 victims of violence, including 44 gunshot wounds, in four days in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  

© Guillaume Le Duc/MSF
Despite a relatively quiet day on Thursday, April 10, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, MSF continues to provide medical care to injured in the latest round of civil unrest.

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MSF provides essential health care to Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa
  

© Shayne Robinson /EPA
In December, 2007, MSF began providing essential health care to Zimbabwean migrants in the South African border town of Musina in Limpopo province, and in capital, Johannesburg.

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International Activity Report, 2006/7
13/12/2007

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NEW MSF Voice Podcast-July

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MSF has treated 850 people wounded in Mogadishu fighting since January
   Conflict in Somalia has escalated in recent weeks, with military operations carried out by armed groups increasing in densely-populated urban areas in and around Mogadishu.
Find out more...
MSF welcomes new fixed-dose combination against malaria
   This new drug is an important additional tool for the better treatment for a disease that continues to kill over one million people each year globally, and kills a child every 30 seconds.
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MSF treats over 160 victims of violence, including 44 gunshot wounds, in four days in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  

© Guillaume Le Duc/MSF
Despite a relatively quiet day on Thursday, April 10, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, MSF continues to provide medical care to injured in the latest round of civil unrest.

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MSF provides essential health care to Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa
  

© Shayne Robinson /EPA
In December, 2007, MSF began providing essential health care to Zimbabwean migrants in the South African border town of Musina in Limpopo province, and in capital, Johannesburg.

Find out more...
International Activity Report, 2006/7
13/12/2007

Now available:
NEW MSF Voice Podcast-July

Click here to subscribe
through iTunes
 
Press Releases
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