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Somalia: Médecins Sans Frontières concludes cholera intervention in Balcad, Middle Shabelle.

Médecins Sans Frontières medical teams in Middle Shabelle have responded to a cholera outbreak...

Médecins Sans Frontières surgical team enters Syria, finds wounded and medics under attack

In late March, a Médecins Sans Frontières team crossed the Turkish border into Syria in an effort...

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North Darfur: Trying to reach isolated communities

Teams of Medecins Sans Frontieres in North Darfur have travelled to areas where humanitarian organisations had not been able to go for months. They found communities who were completely cut off from international assistance.

02/04/2007 Sudan

Meningitis and cholera in South Sudan

Among the countries affected by meningitis this year, South Sudan, and Burkina Faso, have been the hardest hit. Several teams from Médecins Sans Frontières are caring for those affected by the deadly epidemic and vaccinating the...

26/03/2007 Sudan

A day of meningitis vaccinations in Juba

The meningitis vaccination campaign began in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on March 14th. Médecins Sans Frontières is currently vaccinating the population at risk in three health zones in the capital city. Approximately...

19/03/2007 Sudan

Indonesia earthquake - Médecins Sans Frontières update

A Médecins Sans Frontières team composed of six people arrived yesterday (Wednesday) morning at 5am local time in Pedang. The team is composed of a doctor, two nurses, one psychologist and two logistics experts. The team arrived...

08/03/2007 Indonesia

Médecins Sans Frontières concludes mass meningitis vaccination campaign in West Nile

Médecins Sans Frontières has completed a mass meningitis-vaccination campaign in two districts of the West Nile region of Uganda, supervising the vaccination of 291,000 people and assisting with the vaccination of 333,000 more....

27/02/2007 Uganda

Interview with Dr. Cathy Hewison, Médecins Sans Frontières' meningitis specialist

Barely two months into Africa’s dry season, there are several countries facing severe outbreaks of meningitis. Médecins Sans Frontières is already responding to epidemics in the Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, and...

27/02/2007

Still violence, still suffering

As envoys from the United Nations and the African Union arrive in Khartoum and depart after another round of talks, the conflict in Darfur rumbles on. The humanitarian situation in this troubled western region of Sudan remains...

26/02/2007 Sudan

Meningitis: Limited vaccine threatens Médecins Sans Frontières response to epidemics

26/02/2007 Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda

Interview: Moving On The Unsafe Roads of Darfur

Médecins Sans Frontières has been in Darfur, Sudan since January 2004. Dr Rowan Gillies worked in West Darfur in the Mornay camp in July 2004. He returned to Darfur in October last year, and following his visit a leading article...

23/02/2007 Sudan

Fear in the heart of India

India is known to be a land with enormous differences dividing the poor and the rich. However, few people know that there is also a great contrast there between living freely and living in fear. The country is the scene of a...

20/02/2007 India
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