This short film provides an overview of MSF programs and the situation in Somalia from 200
This short film provides an overview of MSF programs and the situation in Somalia from 2007 to mid-2008. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the capital, Mogadishu, as a result of increasing violence. And attacks against aid organizations has limited the amount of relief deployed.
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This short film focuses on the deteriorating situation, including outbreaks of malnutritio
This short film focuses on the deteriorating situation, including outbreaks of malnutrition, in South Sudan's northern Bahr el Ghazal region.
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This short film gives an overview of MSF programs and the situation in North Kivu, the Dem
This short film gives an overview of MSF programs and the situation in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of Congo. Continued fighting and violence has lead to repeated population displacement. MSF carries out vaccination campaigns, works in the referral hospital in the ER, surgery and pediatric wards, and offers medical care for rape victims.
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The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for an immediate increase in assistance for the people of Mount Elgon in western Kenya, and an end to the indiscriminate violence they have endured for almost two years.
Since August 2006, the civilian population of Mount Elgon has been trapped in the violent conflict between the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) militia, which took up arms over a land allocation scheme it considers unfair, and the Kenyan authorities. Tens of thousands have been displaced. Many have lived through atrocities, mutilation, and loss.
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In the past month Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has admitted more
In the past month Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has admitted more than 4,000 severely malnourished children into its nutritional programs in the Oromiya and Southern Nations and Nationalities People's regions (SNNPR) of southern Ethiopia. On May 13, MSF set up a stabilization center to provide 24-hour medical care to severely malnourished children suffering from complications such as malaria or pneumonia in Ropi, Oromiya region. Since then two more centers have been set up in Senbete Shinquille and Shashemene, Oromiya region. In total 927 children have been admitted to these three centers, with 290 currently receiving care.
Many of them are suffering from kwashiorkor—a form of edema caused by malnutrition, which manifests in liquid retention in the legs and feet. Kwashiorkor is a serious condition that can lead to death from heart failure or other complications.
Children who are not suffering from complications are treated on an outpatient basis in 'outpatient therapeutic programs. They are provided with therapeutic food on a weekly basis, but are able to stay at home with their families. They return to these outpatient centers every week to be monitored by MSF medical staff and can be referred to a stabilization centre if necessary. In Oromiya MSF has eleven such outpatient centers in various locations throughout the region.
On June 2, MSF teams also started working in the Kambata zone of SNNPR. One stabilization center has been set up in Kachabira district. As of June 13, 150 children were receiving medical care there. Four outpatient centers have also been established; two in Kachabira district and two in Hadero district. In the last two weeks, more than 900 severely malnourished children have been admitted into these programs and are receiving therapeutic food.
In the coming days MSF will continue to expand its activities by increasing the number of outpatient centers in both Oromiya and SNNPR. In addition, MSF teams will continue to carry out assessments in order to identify the worst affected areas and respond where necessary.
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Nearly 8,000 ethnic Lao Hmong currently confined to a guarded, barbed-wire enclosed camp c
Nearly 8,000 ethnic Lao Hmong currently confined to a guarded, barbed-wire enclosed camp controlled by the Thai military in the village of Huai Nam Khao in Petchabun province in northern Thailand face the imminent threat of a forced return to Laos.
Many of these refugees have told the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the sole nongovernmental organization working in the camp, of a life in Laos spent fleeing violent attacks and persecution, witnessing the murder of family members, suffering rape, surviving bullet and shrapnel wounds, and enduring malnutrition and disease.
Read more:
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/article.cfm?id =2705
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One of the biggest barriers to accessing treatment for malaria is distance from health cli
One of the biggest barriers to accessing treatment for malaria is distance from health clinics. MSF trains laypeople in remote areas to test for malaria and treat simple cases.
Read more about MSF's work in Sierra Leone: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/allcontent.cfm?id= 67
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Read more about MSF's work in DRC http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/allcontent.cfm
Read more about MSF's work in DRC http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/allcontent.cfm?id= 22
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Despite the signing of a peace agreement between North and South Sudan on January 9, 2005,
Despite the signing of a peace agreement between North and South Sudan on January 9, 2005, which ended decades of civil war, medical needs in southern Sudan remain overwhelming. Outbreaks of disease and violence continue, while many people still do not have access to basic health care, resulting in preventable deaths.
Although MSF has handed over some projects, a shortage of organizations willing or able to work in southern Sudan means that MSF remains one of the largest health-care providers in the region. MSF has worked in southern Sudan since 1983. In 2007, 137 international staff and 1,359 Sudanese staff were employed and MSF spent 19.76 million euros providing medical care in the region.
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