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Ethiopia: Helping communities address food insecurity

05 October 2011
Dr Yashoda Manickchund in Ethiopia
Dr Yashoda Manickchund in Ethiopia
Dr Yashoda Manickchund (28) hails from Durban. She recently returned from Ethiopia where she participated in a month-long assessment where MSF intends setting up a nutrition programme. She has completed 3 other missions with MSF in Pakistan, Iraq and Libya. Here she explains more about her work:   Dr Yashoda Manickchund with a patient. Photo: MSF “While most of the world’s attention has been focussed on the nutrition crisis in Somalia, parts of Ethiopia are also facing severe drought. In Arsi zone in central Ethiopia, for example, the rains failed last year, which meant crop failures and dying livestock a year on. Signs of food insecurity were starting to appear and MSF had decided to...
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Papua New Guinea: Return to neglected Bougainville

15 July 2011
After a 10-year absence, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), has returned to the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, a collection of islands off the eastern coast of Papua New Guinea, to assist in delivering much-needed health care in the remote southern region of Buin. Since April 2011, a small MSF team has been working in Buin Health Center. View Larger Map Access to health care in Bougainville is extremely limited. A 10-year civil war between secessionists and the Papua New Guinea government caused the deaths and displacement of tens of thousands of people, and left the region’s infrastructure in tatters. Today, a decade after a peace agreement was signed, there...
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Women's struggle against HIV in rural Zimbabwe

19 May 2011
MSF staff tests a child for HIV at Bubude Clinic in Tsholotsho District, Zimbabw
MSF staff tests a child for HIV at Bubude Clinic in Tsholotsho District, Zimbabwe
MSF staff tests a child for HIV at Bubude Clinic in Tsholotsho District, where MSF is helping the Ministry of Health decentralize HIV/AIDS treatment and the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) program. Photo: Amaia Esparza/MSF It’s Easter in Zimbabwe, and women are flocking to rural clinics to get contraceptives. Men are coming back from South Africa to spend the holidays at home. Women know their husbands have sexual partners in the neighboring country. They also know that injectable or oral contraceptives won’t protect them from HIV and sexually transmitted infections. But at least they prevent unwanted pregnancies and save innocent lives from the deadly virus....
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MSF Frontline Reports - Women in Northeastern Uganda pay the price for years of neglect

04 May 2011
Photo: Maimouna Jallow/MSF
MSF Frontline Reports - Women in Northeastern Uganda pay the price for years of neglect
  Chronic violence and neglect in parts of northeastern Uganda's Karamoja region means 70 percent of the population has no access to any kind of health care. This affects women the most - maternal mortality rates here are 75 percent higher than the national average. MSF goals in Karamoja's Kaabong district are to strengthen government health services and to reach people who otherwise can't get to health facilities. 
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by Dr. Radut.