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Iraq

Basra team evacuated

Project Update - 15 Aug 2003
 
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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
 
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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
 
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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
 
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Russia

Humanitarian aid worker held captive - One year and counting

A full year since Arjan Erkel, the head of mission for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Dagestan, was abducted by three unknown gunmen in the Russian Republic's capital, Malachkala. Project Update - 12 Aug 2003
 
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Russia

Previous kidnap victim pens this letter for Arjan Erkel

With my wife and children, we are counting again the days...and we know the length of each day. We never stopped to believe in tomorrow, whenever the tomorrow we are waiting for will come - Vincent Cochetel Project Update - 12 Aug 2003
 
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Russia

CNN World transcript: Arjan Erkel

This is an excerpt from the CNN World broadcast on August 12, 2003. Project Update - 12 Aug 2003
 
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Liberia

MSF reestablishes facilities and adds to teams in Monrovia's increasing calm

The situation has improved since this past Monday, and the number of war wounded civilians has dropped. However the decline is not necessarily an indication of improving conditions. Cholera and malnutrition remain the biggest concerns. The situation in Monrovia is catastrophic enough, but access to over three-quarters of Liberia remains impossible and health care facilities are presumably all-but non-existent. MSF is gravely concerned about the health situation for all of the Liberian population. Project Update - 8 Aug 2003
 
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Liberia

Battered Liberians aid each other

For weeks, the streets of Monrovia's West Point neighborhood have been emptied of life, the rubbish-filled alleys silent except for the ping of flying bullets and crash of mortars. Project Update - 6 Aug 2003
 
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Indonesia

MSF tackles malaria outbreak

In a remote area in North Maluku, MSF discovered that six children had died fom the disease in the past two weeks alone. A swift response is required. Project Update - 5 Aug 2003
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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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