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Slideshow: Lives in the balance - the urgent need for HIV and TB treatment in Myanmar

21 February 2012
Lives in the balance: the urgent need for HIV and TB treatment in Myanmar
Lives in the balance: the urgent need for HIV and TB treatment in Myanmar
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Photos: HIV activists support India's generic ARV producers during picket outside Indian Consulate in JHB

08 February 2012
An HIV activist shows his solidarity at a recent picket outside the Joburg India
An HIV activist shows his solidarity at a recent picket outside the Joburg Indian Consulate on Wed 8th February 2012.
As India and the European Union prepare to meet at a New Delhi summit to finalize a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) under negotiation since 2007, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SECTION27 and He-Tic held a picket to warn that harmful provisions in the agreement could have a severely negative impact on access to medicine for people in developing countries. Photo: Borrie La Grange/MSF   Photo: Borrie La Grange/MSF   Photo: Borrie La Grange/MSF   Photo: Borrie La Grange/MSF   An HIV activist...
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Why Do We Have to Wait For a Crisis?

14 October 2011
Starved for Attention
Starved for Attention
In the Starved for Attention film “Why Do We Have To Wait For A Crisis?” photojournalist Lynsey Addario documents the food crisis in Somalia and northeastern Kenya. All children have the same nutritional needs to grow and thrive. It shouldn’t take a war or famine to occur before vulnerable children have access to a healthy diet. http://www.starvedforattention.org/ Somali refugees wait in Liboi, right across the Kenyan border, to be relocated to Dagahaley camp by the IOM, August 20, 2011. Dadaab, with roughly 400,000 refugees, is the largest refugee camps in the world. The horn of Africa is suffering one of the worst droughts in years, displacing thousands, and killing others through severe...
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INTERVALO! sporting event against HIV/Aids

06 October 2011
Intervalo! teams from Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and South Africa
INTERVALO! teams
To raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and the challenges in treating the epidemic in southern Africa, MSF hosted the INTERVALO! sporting event in Maputo, Mozambique on 14 September, midway during the 10th All Africa Games. The event brought together 24 athletes, made up of patients living positively with HIV along with MSF staff involved in HIV care from 5 Southern African countries – Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. INTERVALO! highlighted the determination and commitment of people on the frontlines of the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and demonstrated the positive impact of antiretroviral drugs in fighting a disease that wipes out 2 million people worldwide each year. Each of the fun sporting events...
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Food Crisis: Driven to Ethiopia by hunger and war

01 August 2011
Kobe camp, Liben, Ethiopia
Kobe camp, Liben. “The refugees arrive in very weak health after the long journey to the Ethiopian border from their place of origin,” explains Guillem Pérez, coordinator of the emergency in Liben, Ethiopia. Semi-nomadic shepherds or smallholder farmers, many waited in vain for as long as they could for the rains to come. Photo: Sisay Zerihun / MSF
Nearly half of the 118,000 Somalis currently stationed in the Liben refugee camp on the Ethiopean border – initially built to house 45,000 – arrived in the last two months alone. These mostly semi-nomadic shepherds and small-scale farmers - and their families - waited as long as they could for rains that never came. These images capture their arrival in the Liben camps and the desperate search for means of survival in a place they may never be able to leave. Kobe camp, Liben. “The refugees arrive in very weak health after the long journey to the Ethiopian border from their place of origin,” explains Guillem Pérez, coordinator of the emergency in Liben, Ethiopia. Semi-...
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Dadaab, Kenya: Somalis fighting for survival

27 July 2011
Dadaab, Kenya. © Brendan Bannon
Somali refugees who have fled drought and violence and come to an overcrowded refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, carry their sick and malnourished children to an MSF feeding center on the outskirts of one of the camps.
Somali refugees continue to arrive at the overcrowded camp complex in Dadaab, northeastern Kenya, every day. They are fleeing the violent conflict in Somalia and the devastating effects of ongoing drought and lack of food. The third week of July alone brought 5,117 new refugees, pushing the total number of people in and around the Dadaab camp to 387,893. The three camp sites—Ifo, Hagadera and Dagahaley—were originally built to hold a combined 90,000 people. Most of the new arrivals must remain on the outskirts of the overcrowded camp, where they are not receiving adequate assistance and must contend with delays in registration and access to food, water, and shelter. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiè...
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In post-earthquake Haiti, medical needs are still great

20 June 2011
The needs are for surgery, post-operative care, and obstetric care.
The needs are for surgery, post-operative care, and obstetric care.
The earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010 reportedly left 300,000 wounded, and 1.5 million homeless. Soon afterwards, a cholera epidemic swept the country, killing more than 5,000. Photo: Yann Libessart/MSF Although the situation is no longer covered as extensively as it was in 2010, huge health needs remain in Haiti. Photo: Yann Libessart/MSF The needs are for surgery, post-operative care, and obstetric care. Photo: Yann Libessart/MSF Cholera is still a concern. In Port-au-Prince, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treatment centers have seen an increase in cases since mid-May. Photo:...
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Cholera Treatment Centre

09 January 2011
Cholera Treatment Centre
Cholera Treatment Centre
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Hidden Nightmare: life inside a johannesburg slum building

20 December 2010
Hidden Nightmare: life inside a johannesburg slum building
Hidden Nightmare: life inside a johannesburg slum building
  About 250 000 people live in slum buildings of inner-city Johannesburg. Many of these residents are migrants from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Democratic Republic of Congo and other parts of South Africa. South Africa's moratorium on deportations for undocumented migrants lifted on 31 July 2011, which calls into question the future for the thousands of people who fall between the cracks - without the rights afforded by refugee status or temporary resident permits, they live beneath the surface, trapped without options. Living conditions in the slum buildings are often appalling, warren-like spaces, many without access to clean water, light, electricity or waste disposal. Médecins...
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MSF treats women injured in childbirth

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by Dr. Radut.