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Japan

MSF teams on way to worst affected area

A chartered helicopter with two MSF teams has landed in Miyagi prefecture,the worst-affected area in Sendai city. The team comprises medical and logistical staff and includes Dr. Nobuko Kurosaki, MSF-Japan President, a pediatric surgeon. Three more helicopter flights are scheduled to leave with additional MSF teams early Sunday morning. Project Update - 12 Mar 2011
 
South Africa

Scaling up Diagnosis and Treatment of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Khayelitsha is a township with one of the highest burdens of HIV infection and tuberculosis in South Africa. Since 2007, MSF, the City of Cape Town and the Provincial Government of the Western Cape have been carrying out a pilot project to provide treatment to DR-TB patients at the primary care level. Report - 11 Mar 2011
 
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Kala azar

Kala Azar treatment brings lifelong immunity

The beautiful thing about treatment of Kala Azar is that once you’re cured for Kala Azar you have a life long immunity. So that means that every case treated is a life saved. And imagine that we have treated a middle sized town of 100 000 people. Project Update - 11 Mar 2011
 
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Libya

Medical supply lifeline from Benghazi to the west

Highly insecure roads mean that drivers take great risks in trying to reach the medical facilities, often having to drive for hours in order to deliver the supplies.
As the situation in Libya continues to develop, the respect for medical facilities, vehicles and personnel by all parties is paramount, and the only way patients will be able to receive urgent medical care.
Project Update - 10 Mar 2011
 
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Somalia

UK undermines its own Somalia aid with a political agenda

In recent years, numerous aid agencies have been shut down by warring parties, usually without justification but routinely with the accusation of having an agenda other than humanitarian.   Statement - 10 Mar 2011
 
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Libya

MSF delivers more medicine and supplies to areas affected by violence

Access to areas further west is still extremely difficult, while medical doctors in a number of locations have requested MSF's support. MSF is working on delivering more drugs and supplies. On March 6, an MSF team headed for Ras Lanuf was unable to continue due to high insecurity. Project Update - 8 Mar 2011
 
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Fistula

Fistula reconstructive surgery returns lives, dignity and well-being

Sigrid describes what took place in one of the MSF fistula camps, from mid-November to the end of December, 2010, in Boguila, a town in western Central African Republic. In the second of two fistula camps that MSF organized in the country, 65 women were treated. Voices from the Field - 8 Mar 2011
 
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Nigeria

Preventing and treating obstetric fistulas in Nigeria

Obstetric fistulas, most often the result of prolonged obstructed labor, is an opening that occurs between the bladder and the vagina, or between the rectum and the vagina and causes a woman to become incontinent, among other devastating medical and social consequences. According to the UN, an estimated two million women live with fistulas today—about half of them in Nigeria. Voices from the Field - 8 Mar 2011
 
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Fistula

The 'backyard disease'

In Burundi, MSF set up a special centre at the Gitega regional hospital that is devoted exclusively to these operations. Every year it operates on 350 women. Project Update - 7 Mar 2011
 
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Women's health

Sentenced to injury and shame

Video: Sentenced to injury and shame Project Update - 7 Mar 2011
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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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