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Libya: Providing medical assistance in Misrata, Benghazi, Zintan and Yefren

Médecins Sans Frontières began its activities in Libya on February 25, 2011. Médecins Sans...

Somalia: Médecins Sans Frontières is rapidly scaling up its activities in Mogadishu

12 August, 2011. This week, Médecins Sans Frontières has sent medical teams and four charter planes...

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Improving malaria and cholera care

While civilians in Mali face recurring epidemics of cholera, measles and meningitis, the basic medical needs of the country's 12 million inhabitants remain largely unmet. Médecins Sans Frontières makes a priority of improving...

12/05/2005 Mali

Helping Families Face the Winter

Nick Lawson served as Médecins Sans Frontières’s head of mission in Pakistan until December 10. He arrived two days after the devastating October 8 earthquake and supervised the set-up of Médecins Sans Frontières medical and...

23/01/2006 Pakistan

Mobile medicine: The work of Médecins Sans Frontières Doctors in Ingushetia and Chechnya

In the bleak settlements for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Ingushetia, in the temporary accommodation centres in Grozny and in rural areas of Chechnya, Médecins Sans Frontières national staff doctors provide healthcare...

22/02/2006 Russian Federation

Sleeping sickness: The hidden killer

Médecins Sans Frontières has been running a trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) program since 2004 in Isangi, in Oriental Province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The program aims to halt transmission of the disease by...

07/04/2006

The effects of fear: Médecins Sans Frontières' mental health program in Ingushetia and Chechnya

Almost everyone you talk to, tells you with a mixture of conviction and desperation, "I want to go back home". But for many of the roughly 25,000 Chechens who remain in Ingushetia this remains only a theoretical possibility....

29/06/2006 Russian Federation

Australian Photojournalist At The Blue House

In September Australian photojournalist, Matthew Smeal, visited Médecins Sans Frontières' HIV/AIDS project in Mathare slum in Nairobi, Kenya. In his words Matthew raises the organisation's concern over the rise in tuberculosis...

01/08/2006 Kenya

The “Blue House” in the slum district Mathare helps people with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis – but to survive they need more than just medicines.

Mathare has 300,000 inhabitants and that makes it one of the biggest slums in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Médecins Sans Frontières runs a clinic here in which patients can receive antiretroviral HIV/AIDS drugs that can prolong...

28/08/2006 Kenya

Helping to reconstruct those damaged by war

Although a bitter, attritional conflict is still being waged in Chechnya, carpet bombing and pitched street battles are, thankfully, no longer a daily reality. But for many people living in the republic, physical scars and poorly...

28/11/2006 Russian Federation

Médecins Sans Frontières international staff return to Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontières has begun returning its expatriate staff to Somalia. Médecins Sans Frontières’s international aid workers were evacuated from the country as fighting escalated in December.

05/01/2007 Somalia

Médecins Sans Frontières opens three surgical programmes amidst ongoing violence in Sri Lanka

Throughout 2006, tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the armed conflict in Sri Lanka while at least 15 000 people have fled to India. For the past 9 months, Médecins Sans Frontières has been pushing to provide...

24/01/2007 Sri Lanka
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