| 65 wounded in MSF clinic, Kalma Camp, Darfur |
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| © Avril Benoit/MSF |
At least 65 patients who were wounded in shooting early this morning in Kalma Camp in Darfur (Sudan) have been admitted to the clinic of the medical emergency organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Kalma Camp, home to more than 90,000 people, is one of the largest camps for displaced people in Darfur.
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| Responding to food insecurity and malnutrition in north-eastern Uganda |
In Karamoja, in northeastern Uganda, malnutrition is cyclical and chronic. However, the poor rains last year and late rains this year mean that there is little or no harvest. Only now are people planting their peanuts and sorghum. Inflated food and fuel prices are exacerbating the situation, resulting in clear pockets of malnutrition.
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| Malnutrition in the hills of northern Bangladesh, the problem does not end with the rats |
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| © Hoo Lai Ting |
‘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. They eat the bamboo fruits and become highly reproductive, consuming much of the available food. This meant that people were left with little to no rice, the main staple of their diets."
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| Open letter from MSF to UNHCR in South Africa |
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MSF is appalled at the role that the UNHCR has played in this process. UNHCR has supported the government
decision to close the camps – and in so doing has failed the people it is mandated to protect.
The consequences of this failure are dire for the remaining 4,000 people in the camps.
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| Camps closures unacceptable without guarantee of adequate assistance and protection |
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| © Henrik Glette/MSF |
As the announcement is made that the camps for displaced foreign nationals in Gauteng are to be closed, medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the South African government to uphold its obligation to protect refugees.
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| South Ossetia, Georgia conflict |
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, and is also alarmed at the possible interruption of treatment for drug resistant tuberculosis in programmes in Georgia and Abkhazia.
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| The complexities of life in Complexo do Alemão |
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Daniel Fiandero works as Medical Focal Point, or team leader, in Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is his first mission with MSF and this interview was conducted in June, six weeks after he arrived at the project, where the MSF unit provides primary health care to a community struggling to access health services. The health facility is open seven days a week.
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| Children living with HIV deserve fair treatment |
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| © Wayne Conradie |
Treating children and adolescents living with HIV effectively in resource-limited settings is possible, but adapted medicines, diagnostic tools, and treatment strategies are urgently needed to prevent more deaths, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In "Running in Place," a briefing document released by MSF this week at the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, MSF exposes the formidable challenges the organisation still faces in treating over 10,000 children under 15 years of age on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in over 50 projects around the world.
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Listen to the experts
Leading medical journal The Lancet is covering the International AIDS Conference in Mexico. In a podcast, they interview Nathan Ford, head of MSF’s South African Medical Unit, and Dr. Pheello Lethola from MSF’s mission in Lesotho about some of the challenges they face in the fight against the pandemic.
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