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Angola

Cholera in Angola: Second deadly epidemic outbreak this year

MSF calls for health groups to get more involved as the number of patients continues to rise and mortality remains very high. Press Release - 29 Nov 2006
 
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Chad

Caring for refugees and displaced people amid deteriorating security

While challenged with the deteriorating security situation, MSF continues to provide medical, nutritional and psychosocial assistance to tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur. MSF teams are witnessing an increase in attacks and looting of villages close to the border. Many people have been wounded and thousands have been forced onto the roads. Some have had to flee a second time and are living, once more, in a precarious situation as the violence extends its reach in the region. Project Update - 23 Nov 2006
 
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Chad

Displaced people forced to flee again in region gripped by sharp rise in violence

Interview with Filipe Ribeiro, the French section's head of mission in Chad.
MSF is concerned about the fate of 5,000 displaced Chadians who fled an attack on the Koloye site, in the eastern part of the country, and have disappeared in the area even as violence expands in the region. That number included 37 MSF employees. We had no information about them. We have since learned that some of displaced persons fled to Adé and Kumu, two villages further north, accompanied by the populations of neighboring villages. We still have no information on four of the 37 members of our team.
Voices from the Field - 22 Nov 2006
 
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Chad

Thousands displaced after fresh violence hits villages in southeast Chad

The attacks took place relatively deep inside Chad, about 80 km (50 miles) from the border with Sudan. Project Update - 21 Nov 2006
 
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South Africa

Mass measles vaccinations are effective at early signs of outbreak

"Sadly, the fact that the WHO does not promote vaccination campaigns during an epidemic only hinders an effective emergency response," said Rebecca Grais, an epidemiologist who helped lead the MSF/Epicentre study. Press Release - 16 Nov 2006
 
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Sleeping sickness

New study shows potential for shorter and safer sleeping sickness treatment

Toxic treatments with older drugs should be phased out. Press Release - 16 Nov 2006
 
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Access to medicines

Five years after DOHA, drug prices are on the rise

Countries must make more use of TRIPS flexibilities Press Release - 14 Nov 2006
 
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Sudan

A crisis of human suffering

The situation has certainly changed since I was in Darfur over two years ago... Today MSF has had to reduce its activities due to intensified fighting and mounting insecurity throughout Darfur.
An interview with MSF International Council President, Dr. Rowan Gillies.
Project Update - 14 Nov 2006
 
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South Sudan

MSF provides assistance to 50,000 newly displaced in south Darfur

When MSF's mobile teams were able to move around, they found civilians shot and beaten, villages largely burned to the ground, water points damaged beyond repair, food stocks destroyed, and despair over suddenly shattered lives and communities. Project Update - 12 Nov 2006
 
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Neglected diseases

Kala azar kills thousands each year

MSF has tested a new rapid diagnostic tool: a dipstick that reacts with antibodies against the kala-azar parasite found in a drop of a patient's blood. The test has been found to give a correct, positive outcome in 90 percent of infected patients. The dipstick is specially designed for use in areas lacking laboratories or hospitals. Project Update - 10 Nov 2006
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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