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Topic	Date	Location
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