Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia

E-newsletter Issue 50| October 2006

MSF emergency team fights a typhoid fever epidemic in Kikwit, Democratic Republic Congo

Since 20th August, more than 650 cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Kikwit, Bandundu Province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A team from Médecins Sans Frontières' Congo Emergency Pool is providing support to Kikwit's main hospital to ensure treatment of patients free of charge. Community workers are raising awareness among the population about basic hygiene practices, in order to halt this serious epidemic of the so-called "dirty hands disease"...» Read more

	Letter Home from Malawi Olivia Yacoub is a Lab Technician from Houghton in South Australia who has recently completed her first mission with MSF in Chiradzulu, Malawi...» Read more
	Kyrgyzstan: MSF Treats TB Patients in Prisons Tuberculosis (TB) spreads like wildfire through the prisons of the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan. MSF treats infected prisoners near the capital Bishkek...» Read more
	MSF Assesses Child Malnutrition Situation in Niger Médecins Sans Frontières had more than 10,000 acutely malnourished children currently on treatment in its nutritional program in the Maradi region at the beginning of September...» Read more
	AS NOVARTIS CHALLENGES INDIA’S PATENT LAW, MSF WARNS ACCESS TO MEDICINES IS UNDER THREAT Médecins Sans Frontières warns that the challenge against India’s patent law filed by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis may have serious implications for future access to essential drugs worldwide...» Read more

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