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MSF Frontline Reports: A doctor returns to Somaliland

06 December 2011

After 20 years outside the country, Dr. Sohur Mire came back to Somaliland to work with MSF

After 20 years outside the country, Dr. Sohur Mire came back to Somaliland to work with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Somaliland is a nominally autonomous region of northern Somalia. At 68,000 square miles it's about the size of England and Wales, or the state of Oklahoma in the US, with a population of around 3.5 million. Decades of war and food shortages have left the area poor and insecure, although it has escaped the worst of recent violence in Somalia to the south. MSF's history here goes back to the 1980s; today, teams run two hospitals in the towns of Burco and Ceerigabo

MSF Frontline Reports podcast: The Struggle For Basic Medical Care in North Kivu, DRC

24 November 2011

MSF in Democratic Republic of Congo

Paul Brockmann worked as the project coordinator for a year in the Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) primary health care program in and around the village of Mweso, in North Kivu Province. People living in this area of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have to contend with ongoing insecurity and outbreaks of violence that push them out of their homes. They suffer from preventable diseases like cholera, measles, and malaria, and are often unable to access medical care. Which is why MSF has been working there for 30 years. Here Brockmann describes what he saw during his time in North Kivu.

MSF Frontline Reports: Fighting a deadly measles outbreak amid insecurity in Somalia

14 November 2011

measles outbreak in Somalia

Measles have hit the displaced population in and around Mogadishu especially hard. MSF teams are working to try to contain the disease despite significant challenges.

MSF Frontline Reports podcast: Giving the right foods in a nutrition crisis

10 October 2011

Turkana, Kenya: malnutrition

In Turkana, northwestern Kenya, MSF is now able to distribute supplementary nutrient-rich food, which will prevent children from becoming malnourished. For more information, visit www.msf.org to find the MSF web site in your home country. If you have questions or comments, send an e-mail to msfpodcast@msf.org. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is an independent medical humanitarian aid organisation that delivers emergency assistance to people affected by wars, epidemics, and natural or man-made disasters in 70 countries around the world.

MSF Frontline Podcast - Children With HIV Need More Treatment Options; DNDi Steps In

05 October 2011

Children With HIV Need More Treatment Options

Without proper treatment, half of the 370,000 children newly infected with HIV last year will die before they reach their second birthday. But very few medicines are designed and adapted specifically for children, and are affordable and practical to use in the places where they live. The Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) recently announced a new project to help develop appropriate HIV drugs for children. Listen to this podcast where Rachel Cohen, DNDi's Regional Executive Director in North America, explains more. Previously Cohen served as Head of Mission for MSF in South Africa and Lesotho, where she oversaw numerous medical programmes, primarily focused on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis treatment in rural and...

Outside humanitarian spotlight, Central African Republic is dogged by conflict

15 June 2011

Central African Republic

In Central African Republic, one million people are estimated to be affected by the ongoing violence. Particularly since 2008, families have been repeatedly displaced from their villages, forced to flee into the bush, where they remain trapped and unable to return to their homes, with little access any medical care.

Libya: Tripoli hospitals struggle with casualty numbers

25 August 2011

Jonathan Whittall

Jonathan Whittal, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Tripoli was interviewed live on Morning Ireland today, 25 August. He describes the huge pressures on medical staff and hospitals in the Libyan capital as they struggle to cope with high numbers of wounded patients. There is also a critical shortage of fuel needed for ambulances and generators. "Almost all of the hospitals around the city are receiving wounded" - read full interview from Tripoli

In Aweil Hospital, South Sudan, focused on the most at risk

03 August 2011

In the world’s newest country, three out of four people have no access to basic health care

In the world’s newest country, three out of four people have no access to basic health care. Women and children bear the brunt of this neglect: many women do not survive pregnancy or childbirth, and children die from preventable diseases and malnutrition. Length: 8:37

MSF Frontline Podcast - Inside Somalia: MSF Malnutrition Ward Is "Beyond Full"

01 August 2011

ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa region have intensified the situation in Somalia

The effects of ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa region have intensified the situation in Somalia, already precarious due to 20 years of violent conflict: food prices have gone up, livestock are dying, and humanitarian aid in the country is scarce. MSF's Marere Hospital in southern Somalia is the only health facility in the area. A Somali medical worker from Marere described the current crisis.

MSF Frontline Podcast - One of the Largest Refugee Camps in the World is Full

28 June 2011

Dadaab, Kenya

Somali refugees escaping the conflict in their country continue to arrive en masse in Dadaab, Kenya. The three camps are now home to close to four times the number of people they were built for; collectively, they form one of the largest refugee camps in the word. And yet newly arrived families can no longer get inside.

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