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E-newsletter Issue 46 | June 2006
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Two teams of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) consisting of
doctors, nurses, psychologists and logisticians, are visiting
villages in the area around Yogyakarta, Indonesia where insufficient
aid has arrived after the devastating May 27 earthquake. They
offer basic medical care, including treatment of injuries.
The psychologists organise information and discussion sessions
to help people understand the mental trauma they may be suffering
after the earthquake, and offer counselling to people who
are having psychosomatic complaints... »
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LETTER HOME –
SUSAN THOMAS IN LIBERIA
Susan Thomas is a nurse from Sydney currently working as field
coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
project in Nimba County, in Liberia. This is Susan’s
fourth mission with MSF...»
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MSF WELCOMES WHA
RESOLUTION ON GLOBAL R&D FRAMEWORK
On Saturday 27 May, 2006, MSF welcomed a breakthrough agreement
on essential health research and development (R&D), that
was reached by the World Health Assembly (WHA). With a resolution
passed by the annual meeting of health ministers, governments
agreed to start talks to establish a global plan of action
to tackle the current crisis in R&D and to implement the
recommendations of the report of the Commission on Intellectual
Property, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH)...»
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DARFUR – MSF
CALLS ON STATES TO TAKE EMERGENCY ACTION TO PREVENT DISASTER
MSF is concerned about the impact that the reduction in World
Food Program (WFP) rations will have for the displaced population
living in Darfur. On the 28th of April 2006, the WFP announced
that because of inadequate funds, it could supply only a half-ration
of vital food rations – 1,050 kilocalories per person
per day instead of 2,100 – to the 2.1 million people
who need emergency food aid in Darfur...»
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UPSURGE OF VIOLENCE
HARMING CIVILIANS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN
An upsurge of violence in recent months has led to displacement,
injury and death of civilians in the Upper Nile and Jonglei
provinces of southern Sudan. According to Médecins Sans
Frontières (MSF), clashes between armed groups and direct
attacks on villages have occurred in the region north and south
of the river Sobat since the beginning of April. The deteriorating
security situation also forced MSF to evacuate a number of its
international teams from the area...»
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