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Voice from the Field: Marilize Ackerman is back from Haiti

01 February 2012
1. Marilize holds one of the premature babies, or ‘petit poids’ in Choscal Hospital, Cite Soleil, Haiti.
  Marilize holds one of the premature babies, or ‘petit poids’ in Choscal Hospital, Cite Soleil. Photo: MSF   MSF South Africa recruit, Marilize Ackerman (33), recently returned home after working in Haiti for eight months with MSF as a Human Resources and Finance Manager. She worked on two MSF hospital projects in the island nation’s capital Port-au-Prince. Here she gives a glimpse into life in Haiti two years after the earthquake.   “Most of my mission was spent at Choscal Hospital in the heart of Cite Soleil, the biggest and poorest slum in Haiti – not to mention the Northern hemisphere. Within hours of the earthquake in 2010, MSF had partnered with the...
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Pakistan: MSF responds to increasing number of patients with acute watery diarrhoea in KPK and FATA

08 September 2011
With the monsoon season in full swing, the independent medical humanitarian association Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has been receiving an increasing number of patients with acute watery diarrhoea in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK) as well as in Kurram Agencyin the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) since July. MSF is reinforcing its teams to respond to the increasing medical needs. Starting in July, MSF has opened temporary diarrhoea treatment centres in existing hospitals in Mingora in Swat district, in Timergara in Lower Dir district and in Hangu in KPK, as well as in Sadda in Kurram.  MSF is also providing treatment to patients suffering from acute watery...
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MSF Activity Report 2010

20 July 2011
MSF Activity Report 2010
MSF Activity Report 2010
Open publication - Free publishing - More 2010 The International Activity Report 2010 gives details of the worldwide operational activities of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Overall, 27,650 MSF staff members worked on 427 projects in 60 countries, bringing medical assistance to people affected by natural disaster, armed conflict and epidemics. Our teams carried out some 7.3 million outpatient consultations and over 58,000 surgical interventions.  
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Colombia: Water runs in the Miramar neighborhood

27 May 2011
Colombia
Colombia
Photo: Aurelie Baumel / MSF In the port city of Buenaventura, 250 houses built on piles in the Miramar neighborhood lacked running water because the water company, Hidropacífico, was not prepared to deliver water via an above-ground distribution system. With the high level of skin infections and gastric disease related to poor-quality water, in late 2009 MSF decided to launch a water and sanitation project.   In 14 months, MSF held 17 training sessions and, working with the Miramar community, rebuilt 725 meters of "water bridges" and installed 200 kits. Now, every house has a tank that provides water around the clock.       Pilot project Miramar was...
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