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E-newsletter Issue 36 | July 2005
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Pay or die –
Niger’s Food Crisis
Tens of thousands of children are suffering from malnutrition
in Niger and many may die without urgent medical care and
food supplies, warns Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) the international
medical aid organisation...»
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Letter
Home – Damien McCarthy
Damien McCarthy, a medical scientist from the
Australian Capital Territory, is in Kotobi, South Sudan. Here
he explains what sleeping sickness is and the effects it is
having on the local population...»
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Lamno - Beneath
the surface the effects of the devastating tsunami of 26 December
remain
At first, Lamno looks much like a pleasant country
village. Fat geese waddle proudly down the main street. Goats
munch, unperturbed, at a spindly tree in the central roundabout.
There is a contented, relaxed air, even in the puskesmas -
the district health clinic where family members surround patients,
chatting, laughing and sharing food and children escape from
their mothers to tear down corridors, giggling... »
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Medical responsibility,
the driving factor in AIDS treatment
At the 34th General Assembly of Médecins
Sans Frontières in Paris, there was considerable discussion
on our organisation’s medical responsibility to our
patients and on prevailing issues in public health and research.
Emmanuel Baron, Medical Director at MSF, provides an insight
to these discussions in the context of MSF’s involvement
in the treatment of AIDS...
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Haiti violence blocking
access to health
MSF Calls on All Armed Groups in Port au Prince
to Respect the Safety of Civilians and Allow Immediate Access
to Emergency Medical Care...
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Arrest made one
year after death of five MSF volunteers in Afghanistan
MSF hopes that these moves are part of a complete
investigation of the motives behind the crime and the prosecution
of all involved...
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