Field news

Topic	Date	Location
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
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
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
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
Is the struggle against acute malnutrition in Niger gaining ground? In 2006, Médecins Sans Frontières obtained good results from using Plumpy’nut to treat all children suffering from acute malnutrition, whether severe or moderate. However, while mobilisation against malnutrition has made progress...	05/04/2007
Médecins Sans Frontières responding to Sri Lanka conflict Shortly after midnight, the Médecins Sans Frontières team in the city of Vavuniya was woken by the telephone. A night bus full of passengers was hit by a bomb explosion on the provincial road thirty kilometres outside the city....	27/04/2007	Sri Lanka
Providing Emergency Medical Care to Victims of Violence in the Niger Delta In Nigeria’s densely populated, oil-rich Niger Delta region, the struggle to control power and natural resources has sparked sporadic and deadly outbreaks of violence among a fragmented network of political and criminal armed...	07/05/2007	Nigeria
Struggling to control tuberculosis in Kyrgyzstan’s prisons In Kyrgyzstan, the impoverished, land-locked state of the former Soviet Union, the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the creaking penitentiary system is currently about 25 times higher than in the civilian population (2,700 per...	07/05/2007	Kyrgyzstan
Tuberculosis Treatment Casts a Shadow of Uncertainty Long and arduous treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis	17/05/2007	Armenia
Dengue outbreak overwhelms Takeo Provincial Hospital Médecins Sans Frontières is working closely with Takeo Provincial Hospital to fight a dengue epidemic. The Cambodian province of Takeo is among the most severely hit by this mosquito-borne disease, which is endemic in the...	07/06/2007	Cambodia