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HAT Screening in CAR
Sleeping sickness

National control activities crippled by lack of funding

Advances in the development of new diagnostic tests and treatment bode well for the fight against sleeping sickness. Two new rapid screening tests are expected next year, and one new oral treatment is in clinical trial. However, national control activities on the ground are crippled by a lack of sustainable funding, warns MSF. Press Release - 6 Dec 2012
 
Refugee crisis South Sudan, Upper Nile State, Batil and Doro.
Vaccination

GAVI needs to offer lower vaccine prices to humanitarian actors

The GAVI Alliance should systematically extend the prices it obtains for vaccines to humanitarian actors that are often well placed to reach unvaccinated children, MSF said today at the GAVI Partners Forum meeting in Tanzania. Currently, humanitarian actors such as MSF are not able to access these prices, and are left to negotiate access to vaccines on a cumbersome case-by-case basis. Press Release - 5 Dec 2012
 
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Global health

Visions for the future of healthcare and how we're going to pay for it

Speech by Dr Unni Karunakara, Médecins Sans Frontières International President, at the Global Healthcare Summit, The Economist, London, 29 November 2012 Speech - 30 Nov 2012
 
MSF activities in Goma, Mugunga I and III camp, Virunga Hospital.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Nine-year-old Eden wounded in Goma violence

Eden, a nine-year-old boy, was seriously injured in the recent fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the M23 rebel group in Goma, eastern Congo. He is one of 60 wounded patients currently being treated by MSF teams and local health staff in Virunga hospital. Voices from the Field - 30 Nov 2012
 
MSF activities in Goma, Mugunga I and III camp, Virunga Hospital.
Democratic Republic of Congo

Critical humanitarian situation in east of country

An already fragile humanitarian situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has deteriorated further after the border city of Goma fell to M23 rebels last week. Teams from MSF have rapidly set up additional emergency response activities, treating victims of violence and providing assistance to newly displaced people in and around Goma. Project Update - 30 Nov 2012
 
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Morocco

"In Morocco migrants are trapped in a constant cycle of violence"

Interview with David Cantero, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of mission in Morocco Voices from the Field - 29 Nov 2012
 
Swaziland - Figthing HIV and TB dual epidemic
Eswatini

Trying out new approaches to treat HIV

Thirty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and more than a decade into antiretroviral (ARV) treatment being introduced in developing countries, the latest scientific evidence shows that treatment both keeps people healthy, and prevents the virus from spreading to others. Micaela Serafini,MSF medical referent, speaks about MSF’s work in Swaziland. Voices from the Field - 28 Nov 2012
 
Pibor, South Soudan
South Sudan

South Sudan’s hidden crisis: how violence against civilians is devastating communities and preventing access to life saving healthcare in Jonglei

MSF report reveals medical consequences of violence and the impact on healthcare. Report - 27 Nov 2012
 
Lankien, Jonglei State and Nasir, Upper Nile State, South Sudan,
South Sudan

Violence a 'hidden crisis' in Jonglei

A report released today by MSF highlights the devastating impact of violence on the lives and health of civilians in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. Women and children as young as four months old are among the victims. Healthcare is threatened as medical facilities are targeted and destroyed. Press Release - 27 Nov 2012
 
Malnutrition in Yida refugee Camp
South Sudan

Treating child malnutrition in Yida camp

In Yida refugee camp, South Sudan, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have set up outpatient treatment sites for children suffering from malnutrition. Project Update - 26 Nov 2012
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

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