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E-newsletter Issue 51| November 2006
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New MSF analysis
shows greater investment required to make TB history
MSF PRESS RELEASE: Paris/Geneva, 30 October
2006
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MSF
left Iraq in November 2004 as targeted attacks on international
aid organisations meant it was no longer possible to work
there. However this year it has begun to provide
assistance again to Iraqis through its partnering with
the Red Crescent hospital in Amman, Jordan.
Dr Nikki Blackwell, from New Farm in Queensland,
explains the specific features of the project... »
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Dr. Rowan Gillies, International Council
President of MSF,
recently returned from a visit to Khartoum and Sudan’s
Darfur region. Dr. Gillies met with
Sudanese government officials to express MSF’s concerns
over the worsening security situation in Darfur as well
as to assess the humanitarian needs in the region. Here
he discusses the current situation...
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Every day, MSF's
mobile teams criss-cross Niger's rural areas in search
of acutely malnourished children. The number of children
treated in MSF's therapeutic feeding programs is growing
steadily—more than 50,000 so far this year. The following
account describes a typical workday for one of MSF's nutritional
programs, based near Zinder, Niger's second-largest city...»
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On the occasion of the board meeting
of the Global Fund to Fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria, in Guatemala City, MSF
is calling for increased efforts from the government of Guatemala
and the Global Fund to maintain treatment of patients living
with HIV/AIDS and to expand coverage to those not currently
under treatment in Guatemala...»
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