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India

Giving psychosocial care to earthquake survivors

Althought the larger impact of the early October earthquake in the Kashmir region struck Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, India-controlled Kashmir was also badly hit. Approximately 1,400 people died and more than 6,000 were wounded in this part of the disaster zone. Project Update - 29 Dec 2005

South Africa

Guardian in South Africa: A new hope

This series of articles and audio/video files was researched and written by Guardian newspaper journalists and was a feature series running in the UK publication and website throughout the Christmas season. Click logo to acces the full series on the Guardian website
In the latest in his Aids in Africa series, photographer Gideon Mendel now focuses on a remote rural project that is not only treating the sick - but may be a model for the continent. Voices from the Field - 29 Dec 2005

Niger

More than 2,200 severe malnourished children treated in Tanout area

"Most of these children would die, if they were not treated", says Rosa Crestani, Emergency Coordinator for the MSF nutritional project in Tanout. "Instead, when they come with their mothers, we manage to save more than 90% of them. Since the beginning of our work in this area, in late August 2005, we've treated more than 2,200 children." Project Update - 29 Dec 2005

Zambia

Zambia struggles with power of witchdoctors

This series of articles and audio/video files was researched and written by Guardian newspaper journalists and was a feature series running in the UK publication and website throughout the Christmas season. Click logo to access the full series on the Guardian website
MSF is educating southern Africans about the cause of Aids and effective treatment. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005

Natural disasters

Asian tsunami: One year on, health watch remains a key MSF concern

Click for MSF report on the tsunami at one year. Including all operational and financial reports for the year.
Throughout the course of 2005 MSF has responded to the devastating consequences of the tsunami in Aceh with programmes ranging from emergency relief and surgery, to mental health and the rehabilitation of health structures.
Now, a year later, MSF continues to monitor the health situation for vulnerable communities in the region and remains ready to respond to any emergencies. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005

Indonesia

Asian tsunami: 'In the first days, they needed our help, not our tears'

Click for MSF report on the tsunami at one year. Including all operational and financial reports for the year.
Two days after the tsunami devastated the shoreline of the Indonesian province of Aceh, MSF teams began working alongside national efforts to provide emergency medical relief.
MSF Medical Coordinator Assistant Maria Meo was one of the first to arrive in the battered city of Banda Aceh. Below she remembers the experience. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005

Mental health

Mental health care grows in strength and experience caring for tsunami survivors

Click for MSF report on the tsunami at one year. Including all operational and financial reports for the year.
MSF teams had been running mobile clinics and providing emergency relief in Aceh for only a few days before they recognised tsunami victims' need for psychological support. Psychologists were quickly dispatched to the region and integrated into all activities. Over the 11 months that have followed MSF mental health programmes across Aceh have continued to grow in strength and expertise, and now form a significant part of MSF's ongoing response to the tsunami. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005

Sudan

Nearly 200,000 people vaccinated against yellow fever in Kordofan, Sudan, in two weeks

Maintaining the cold chain that keeps the vaccines at the correct temperature meant 600 kilograms of ice had to be produced, packaged and transported every day. Project Update - 28 Dec 2005

Haiti

Treating bullet wounds and delivering babies

Two women in the maternity yard's waiting room. Since the beginning of the MSF intervention in Choscal, 400 children have been delivered.
"It is difficult to work in this area," says Loris de Filippi, the MSF head of Mission. "But we found it simply unacceptable that a population of a quarter million, the equivalent of a small European city, would be cut off from medical care." Project Update - 27 Dec 2005

South Africa

Where the stigma of Aids became the killer

This series of articles and audio/video files was researched and written by Guardian newspaper journalists and was a feature series running in the UK publication and website throughout the Christmas season. Click logo to access the full series on the Guardian website
A new frankness has replaced darkly ironic euphemisms as Khayelitsha battles to overcome epidemic. Project Update - 24 Dec 2005

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