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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.
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02/04/2007 |
Sudan |
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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...
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26/03/2007 |
Sudan |
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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...
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19/03/2007 |
Sudan |
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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...
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08/03/2007 |
Indonesia |
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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....
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27/02/2007 |
Uganda |
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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...
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27/02/2007 |
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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...
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26/02/2007 |
Sudan |
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26/02/2007 |
Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda |
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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...
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23/02/2007 |
Sudan |
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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...
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20/02/2007 |
India |