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MSF assists those displaced by Georgia conflict
Date: 20/08/2008
In the 10 camps that MSF has visited so far, hundreds of people are living in public buildings, lacking water and basic sanitation. MSF is providing basic relief supplies and medical care through mobile teams in eight of these camps, serving over 3,200 displaced people and we will continue to visit the other camps in the region.
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The problem does not end with the rats - Malnutrition in the hills of Bangladesh
Date: 18/08/2008
‘With no rice left the rats got so hungry that they even ate the soap’, one of our local staff members told me. The rats flourish during the time of Mautam – the local expression for the flowering of the bamboo.
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Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Update - three months on
Date: 18/08/2008
More than three months after cyclone Nargis wreaked devastation throughout Myanmar’s Irrawaddy Delta, many people remain vulnerable and traumatized.
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Interview: Latest news from the field in Georgia
Date: 18/08/2008
Following the recent conflict in Georgia, MSF programme manager Filipe Ribero has been evaluating the needs of the people who have fled their homes to several sites in and around Tbilisi and Gori.
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A day of food distribution in Ethiopia
Date: 15/08/2008
Bandire has come with Keneritu, her one-year old moderately malnourished child. They have gone through the whole process: the waiting area; then the ‘classroom’ where they get basic education about hygiene and how to cook the food rations; then the medical consultation and finally – what they came for – the food.
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Georgia Emergency Update
Date: 12/08/2008
Following the outbreak of violence in the breakaway region of South Ossetia and subsequent attacks of the Russian army on the Georgian territory, MSF is preoccupied with the situation of thousands of people who have fled the conflict.
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Giving babies an HIV free life in Zimbabwe
Date: 11/08/2008
Many of them say as they come into the testing room that they are more afraid of the needle than the results. But Mlala holds their thumb securely, a quick prick, a drop of blood and it is all over apart from the result.
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MSF Chechnya Programme Update
Date: 08/08/2008
In a situation where health needs are so extensive, MSF has responded in Chechnya with broad medical programmes, including primary care clinics, surgery, TB treatment and mental health support.
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Ethiopia: MSF works to slow rising severe malnutrition rates
Date: 05/08/2008
With over 16,700 severely malnourished patients, mostly children, having received treatment, MSF is now providing for patients suffering from moderate malnutrition.
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MSF shifts focus in Myanmar (Burma)
Date: 04/08/2008
“We can expect that populations in the Delta will remain very vulnerable for many months”, says Phillip Humphris, Programme manager for Burma in Geneva. Around three months after cyclone Nargis devastated the Irrawaddy Delta in Myanmar/Burma, MSF teams are working hard to ensure that healthcare and clean water are available to the affected people.
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Mind the Deadly Gaps: Health worker shortages in Southern Africa
Date: 04/08/2008
At this week’s XVII International Aids Conference in Mexico City, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns of the deadly impact that the lack of health care workers is having on AIDS treatment and care in southern Africa. MSF calls for an increase in government and donor commitment to taking immediate concrete steps to retain and support health care workers.
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Sheleme's story
Date: 30/07/2008
Follow the story of Sheleme, a little girl who, suffering from severe acute malnutrition and oedema, was admitted to one of MSF's emergency feeding centres in Oromiya, Ethiopia.
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