Medecins Sans Frontieres
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E-newsletter Issue 39 | October 2005
Photo © Johannes Arlt

Niger - The crisis is far from over

In Niger, the number of children suffering from severe malnutrition in our therapeutic feeding centres remains at its highest level. Thierry Allafort-Duverger, head of Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) emergency desk, reflects on a nutritional crisis which is far from over...» Read the full article

From the field – Ngaire Caruso is a Doctor from Western Australia assisting displaced civilians and former child soldiers in the war zone of Lira, Uganda...» Read more

MSF start an intervention in Cite Soleil, one of Haiti's poorest slums
 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started an intervention in Cité Soleil, one of the biggest slums in Haiti’s capital city of Port au Prince, where around 250,000 people live in a precarious situation of poverty, violence and social instability... » Read more

Serious Measles outbreak on Sumba Island, Indonesia
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is preparing a massive measles vaccination campaign on the island of Sumba in Indonesia to target 170,000 children between six months and 15 years. Twenty vaccination teams are ready to start vaccinating around the affected areas and towards the epicentre of the outbreak... » Read more
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