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International Activity Report, 2009 In early 2009, as people fleeing the fighting in Somalia arrived in Kenya in their thousands, MSF teams re-started working in Dadaab refugee camp in Dagahaley in the northeast of the country after a five year absence. Teams also responded to numerous emergencies, including fuel tanker explosions and the return of a cholera epidemic, and treated people with kala azar, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB).   Assisting Somali refugees Dagahaley is one of three camps in Dadaab that were set up in the early 1990s to house Somali refugees. By the end of 2009, camps that had originally been built to accommodate 90,000 people were struggling to cope with close to 300,000 people. MSF provides healthcare...
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MSF puts on hold the opening of any non-emergency projects in Somalia until the safe release of its two staff

16 April 2012
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut
  Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut     The international medical organization; Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has put on hold any opening of new non-emergency projects and/or the expansion of the existing ones in Somalia until the safe release of its two colleagues, Blanca Thiebaut and Montserrat Serra, abducted from the Dadaab refugee camps six months ago, on October 13 2011, and held against their will in Somalia. Still committed to the Somali population, MSF will continue to respond to life-saving emergencies. Nevertheless, MSF cannot operate with normalcy when two of its colleagues...
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A Month in Focus - March 2012

01 March 2012
5 stories published in this month's news update: Maternal health – Saving women’s lives Dadaab – Back to square one Tuberculosis – A constant battle Sleeping sickness – A mobile team in in central Africa Novartis – The final act
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M&G: Conditions worsen in Dadaab

06 March 2012
Dadaab, The Largest Refugee Camp in the World
Dadaab, The Largest Refugee Camp in the World
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) continues to work in Dadaab despite the abduction of two of their staff in October last year. MSF has launched a public report called Dadaab: Back to Square One, which sounds the alarm on the worsening situation in the world’s largest refugee camp. Click on the banner to watch the video on M&G online.
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MSF is doing everything in its power to bring about the safe release of Blanca Thiebaut and Montserrat Serra

02 January 2012
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut
Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut
  Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut   MSF is doing everything in its power to bring about the safe release of Blanca Thiebaut and Montserrat Serra who were abducted in Dadaab, Kenya on October 13, 2011, while providing humanitarian assistance to Somali refugees.   MSF calls on all Somalis; the diaspora, community leaders and especially the authorities in control of areas in Somalia where its kidnapped colleagues are being detained, to do everything possible to facilitate their safe release.
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Dadaab Refugee Camps: Back to square one

16 February 2012
Dadaab: Back to square one
Dadaab: Back to square one
Download Dadaab Back to Square One   In the Dadaab camp - the largest refugee camp in the world- where life is becoming more difficult everyday, hundreds of thousands of refugees are facing a humanitarian emergency. The health of refugees is at risk of deteriorating rapidly while humanitarian aid agencies are struggling to provide meaningful assistance on an ongoing basis. In October 2011, in the wake of the kidnapping of two MSF staff and amid a climate of worsening security, all ‘non-lifesaving activities’ were halted within the camps, and official registration of new arrivals was stopped. Today, for many refugees, services have not been restored. There is an urgent need to...
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Dadaab: Back to square one

16 February 2012
Dadaab refugee camp
Somali refugees are settling the land at the edge of Dadaab refugee camp.
MSF launches 'Dadaab: Back to square one' Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) launches today a public communication called “Dadaab: Back to square one.” The international medical organisation takes stock of the current humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home to the world’s largest refugee camp. The open report also reviews the emergency response MSF provided throughout 2011. Somali refugees are settling the land at the edge of Dadaab refugee camp. Photo: Brendan Bannon   “MSF now faces this dilemma: we want to continue to work in Dadaab, as the humanitarian situation is extremely...
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Global Fund cuts spell more AIDS deaths, more HIV infections, & rationing lifesaving treatment

25 November 2011
South Africa’s Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum warns *NOTE: The Budget Expenditure Monitoring Forum [BEMF] is a group of civil society organisations concerned with HIV/AIDS funding in South Africa and the Southern African region. BEMF includes SECTION27, the Treatment Action Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières South Africa, the Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa, the Free State AIDS Coalition and World Vision.   JOHANNESBURG –The shock announcement by the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria that financial shortfalls forced the cancellation of its Round 11 of new grants threatens to run back the clock on the gains made in the fight against HIV. The Global Fund financial...
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HIV Global Fund: an interview with Dr Unni Karunakara

30 November 2011
antiretroviral treatment
Lusikisiki, South Africa. Patient taking her antiretroviral treatment
In a move that could have a profound impact on patients in developing countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria has announced it won’t be accepting any grant applications this year to support treatment programmes because of a catastrophic drop in donor funding.  MSF international president, Dr Unni Karunakara The Global Fund, financed largely by governments, was set up ten years ago as a ‘war chest’ to fight the spiralling AIDS pandemic and tackle malaria and TB, the other two infectious diseases that claim millions of lives each year in developing countries. In many countries, MSF works alongside the national health authorities who rely on Global Fund support to...
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Access to HIV treatment must speed up to match political promises

21 November 2011
MDR-TB patient takes her pills
MDR-TB patient in Khayelitsha, South Africa, takes her pills
Latest UNAIDS treatment numbers show progress, but funding crunch is major threat   The growing number of averted HIV/AIDS deaths according to data released by UNAIDS represents important progress, but the number of people put on treatment must increase dramatically in order to reap the benefits of the new science showing that HIV treatment both saves lives and helps prevent new infections, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors WIthout Borders (MSF) said today. This will require significant additional funding for HIV treatment, yet, as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria’s Board meeting opens today in Accra, Ghana, AIDS funding has now declined for two years...
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