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E-newsletter Issue 21 | March 2004
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HAITI VIOLENCE LEAVES HOSPITALS STRANDED
Over the past three weeks Haiti has been in the throes of a conflict between
‘popular organisations’ of the Haitian Government, led by President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and rebel groups opposing Artistide’s grip on power.
Last Sunday, President Aristide fled Haiti in an unmarked jet and rebels descended
on the capital Port-au-Prince... »
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17,000 vulnerable people without
assistance in Darfur, Sudan
Darfur in Sudan’s western region, is the latest part of the country to be
cut-off from effective humanitarian aid in the current 15 year-old civil war.
Despite a sixth round of peace talks and existing ceasefire agreements, Médecins
Sans Frontières is one of the few NGOs providing aid in Darfur's accessible
areas, but every assessment conducted by their teams discovers newly displaced
people living in extremely precarious conditions. Nearly 17,000 people have recently
gathered in Krenik and Sisi, northwest of Mornay in Sudan’s Darfur region.
They have no access to drinking water and there is not enough food or medical
assistance for them to survive. The medical aid agency has also counted 44 fresh
graves – 17 for young children, which indicates a very high mortality rate...
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Two People with HIV/AIDS overturn
AIDS drug patent
The recent court victory of two Thai people with HIV/AIDS against a multinational
pharmaceutical company, Bristol-Myers Squibb, could open the way for the generic
production of an aids drug. The Thai case could have important international consequences.
The ruling was based on the fact that patients—whose health and lives can
depend on being able to afford a medicine—are injured by patents and have
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Médecins Sans Frontières
launches new NGO ‘SHADE' in Sri Lanka
Médecins sans Frontières has handed over its activities after having
worked in Sri Lanka for 10 years. Upon its departure, on March 1, the medical
aid organisation launched a new Sri Lankan NGO ‘SHADE’ which will
continue the psychosocial program in Vavuniya town and district. The activities
in the North, in Mullaitivu district have been handed over to the local medical
staff of the Ministry of Health.
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