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E-newsletter Issue 43 | March 2006
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MSF
LAUNCHES NEW HEALTH CARE PROJECT IN SOMALIA
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) is increasing its efforts
to bring desperately needed medical aid to the people of Somalia.
The organisation’s new project aims at providing free
health care to the impoverished population of the country’s
Galgaduud region...»
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We will be featuring the developments of this new project
over the following weeks on our website... Somalia
index page
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New Zealand doctor David Friend recently left Australia bound
for South Sudan on his fourth mission with Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Here he shares his thoughts on what it’s like to arrive
in Africa and reflects on the challenges that await him in
the MSF operated primary health care clinic in the town of
Akuem.... »
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Medecins Sans Frontieres is once again responding to a cholera
outbreak and, once again, the outbreak is in one of Africa's
capital cities. In less than a year Monrovia (Liberia), Conakry
(Guinea), Bissau (Guinea Bissau), Nouakchott (Mauritania),
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Lusaka (Zambia) have had to deal
with cholera outbreaks...»
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Since late January, people have been streaming
from Chad, fleeing violence and looting, into Sudan’s
western region of Darfur, which is still gripped by violence
and instability. In this area, neglected by aid organisations,
Medecins Sans Frontieres is providing them with assistance...
» Read more
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