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E-newsletter Issue 44 | April 2006
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© Anja Bakowska |
After four years in Myanmar (Burma), the French section of
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has closed its
medical programs and left the country. The programs were situated
in the Mon and Karen states, a region bordering Thailand,
and caught in an armed conflict between the Burmese military
government and rebel groups. MSF has left because of unacceptable
conditions imposed by the authorities on how to provide relief
to people living in war-affected areas... »
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Lina, a nurse from Sweden, has been working with MSF for a
year and a half. In early March, following a measles epidemic
outbreak, Lina started working in the city of Mbuji Mayi on
a measles vaccination campaign. Working at the heart of this
initiative, Lina tells us about her experience, her work and
her life on the field. Read her entry for the last day of
the vaccination campaign...»
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Each year, nearly 2 million people die of tuberculosis, and
9 million people become sick. The situation is already catastrophic
but will only get worse as tuberculosis incidence due to the
AIDS pandemic skyrockets (one third of the 40 million people
who are HIV+ are co-infected by tuberculosis), and multi-drug
resistance tuberculosis, which is particularly refractory
to treatment shows an alarming increase...»
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In the past week MSF has conducted a nutritional survey in
three camps for displaced Congolese around the town of Dubie
close to Lake Mweru, in the province of Katanga, DRC. The
results are staggering. The prevalence of global malnutrition
was 19.2% and of severe acute malnutrition was 5%. A global
malnutrition of 10% to 15% indicates a crisis in food security...»
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This teleconference includes discussion on the
problems faced by MSF when treating people living with HIV/AIDS
because of the barriers to using the new heat stable version
of the drug lopinavir/ritonavir, produced by Abbott Laboratories...
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