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E-newsletter Issue 45 | May 2006
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27 April 2006
Ten weeks after the first case of cholera was confirmed
in Luanda, some 20,000 people have been infected, around 900
people have died, and the disease has spread throughout most
of the country. Tuesday 25 April, saw the highest daily toll
to date, with 929 new cases and 25 deaths. Yet measures put
in place for halting the outbreak remain grossly insufficient.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges the Angolan
government and international relief organisations to increase
their efforts for stemming the epidemic... »
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Helen Cox is a Melbourne epidemiologist currently working
with the Spanish section of Médecins Sans Frontières
in Africa. Based in Nairobi, Helen is advising projects that
respond to outbreaks of disease in the region. Her latest
letter comes from South Sudan where, since January, MSF has
been responding to an outbreak of cholera...»
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Alarmingly few African patients with malaria are getting existing
effective treatment that could cure them in a few days, said
Médecins Sans Frontières on Africa Malaria Day,
21 April, 2006. Four years after the World Health Organization
(WHO) issued a global recommendation for countries to switch
from old malaria treatments to artemisinin-based combination
therapies, or ACTs, and two years after the Global Fund decided
to fund ACTs, MSF teams witness government-run health facilities
still giving patients old malaria medicines instead of a treatment
that works...»
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On the occasion of World Intellectual Property Day (26 April,
2006), Médecins Sans Frontières urges governments
meeting at the World Health Organization on Friday April 28th
to discuss the Commission on Intellectual Property, Innovation
and Public Health (CIPIH) report published earlier this month.
MSF wishes to ensure that the report’s analysis on the
impact of intellectual property on access to medicines is
not lost to follow-up, and that its conclusions and recommendations
are acted upon in a determined manner...»
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