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110 Results For "Diarrhoeal disease"
 
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Sierra Leone

Effects of the native herbs that parents gave to their children

Marlene Hay is a nurse specialising in paediatrics from Kilsyth in Scotland. In January she returned from Sierra Leone in West Africa, where she worked for six months in a rural hospital with no running water and a generator that ran for only two hours a day. She reports back on her challenging work and the battle with the cockroaches in the compound toilet! Project Update - 1 Jan 2004
 
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Diarrhoeal disease

Treating diarrhoea in emergency settings

Diarrhoea will have claimed 92 million lives by 2025. Sally Hargreaves from the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières takes a look at the treatment of diarrhoea in emergency settings. Project Update - 1 Dec 2003
 
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Afghanistan

Dr Jonathan Tomlinson's First Mission with MSF, in Western Afghanistan

Dr Jonathan Tomlinson is on his first mission with MSF, in western Afghanistan. Project Update - 27 Nov 2003
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

War or health: Humanitarian crisis worsens in war-torn Congo

In some villages the people are living in the most basic conditions and extremely emaciated people are found, locally they are called the 'living skeletons'. This boy is 18 years old and is suffering from severe malnutrition. Project Update - 9 Jul 2003
 
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Uzbekistan

Responding to an environmental health disaster in Central Asia

Responding to an environmental health disaster in Central Asia. Project Update - 9 Jul 2003
 
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United States of America

Damp spirits among G8 fresh pledges

An MSF representative described how the rewritten agenda was defended at the summit by the USA and Germany largely to reflect the interests of their pharmaceutical industries. Project Update - 1 Jul 2003
 
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Iraq

Laws, war, and public health

The recent war in Iraq has raised many questions of legality, not least over the right of the US-led coalition to wage the war, and the alleged illegal holding of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq. There are also a complex set of humanitarian laws that govern war and its aftermath. Project Update - 26 Apr 2003
 
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Kenya

Affordable medicines for Kenyans at risk

MSF and EcoNews Africa strongly urge Kenyan negotiators to reject the TRIPS Council chairman's proposal to restrict use of compulsory licensing for many developing countries to "national emergencies or other circumstances of extreme urgency". Press Release - 14 Feb 2003
 
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HIV/AIDS

Sell-out at WTO on Doha declaration?

Médecins Sans Frontières strongly urges WTO members to reject the latest proposal by the chair of the TRIPS Council to restrict use of compulsory licensing for many developing countries to "national emergencies or other circumstances of extreme urgency". Press Release - 12 Feb 2003
 
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DNDi

DND Conference review

DND Conference: The Crisis of Neglected Diseases: Developing Treatments and Ensuring Access. March 12-14, 2002 Workshop and Conference, New York City Project Update - 8 Apr 2002
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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