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Mail and Guardian: Malaria drug breakthrough

About 200 000 deaths from malaria each year could be averted if African governments follow new World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines, soon to be released, and switch from the far less effective medication quinine to artesunate, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
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Liberia

International Activity Report, 2009 Though Liberia has made significant moves towards stability and reconstruction following its 14-year civil war, many people still live in poverty and the weak health sector often struggles to provide adequate healthcare. Women and children are particularly at risk.   Maternal and paediatric healthcare   In 2009, MSF provided free healthcare in two hospitals and two health centres in Montserrado County in the northwest, which is home to more than 30 per cent of the country’s population.   In a suburb of Paynesville, MSF worked in a 106-bed women and children’s hospital offering neonatal intensive care and maternal emergency services for women, including surgery....
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Sixty years on, governments are still failing refugees

08 December 2011
Somali refugees take apart their makeshift shelter in the outskirts of Dagahaley
refugee crises in 2011 and challenges for the future
This week, world leaders will gather in Geneva to commemorate 60 years of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. Yet it is an anniversary that the world’s 15.1 million refugees have little reason to celebrate. Today, states are increasingly shutting their borders and restricting the assistance they give to refugees and people seeking asylum. By Christopher Stokes, MSF Belgium General Director Read the briefing paper: The 60th anniversary of the UN Refugee Convention: refugee crises in 2011 and challenges for the future   Refugees from the recent conflict in Libya are assessed by MSF staff in Lampedusa, Italy. Photo: Mattia Insolera We can expect ministers and heads of state to...
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Liberia healthcare 20 years

16 June 2010
After 20 years of emergency aid, Médecins Sans Frontières reduces activities in Liberia, handing its hospital services over to the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare - a sign of the health systems progress just seven years after the end of 14 years of brutal civil war. As Liberia reconstructs and develops, many challenges lie ahead. Here the children of Liberia express worries for healthcare and share hopes for the future.
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MSF hands over last hospital to Ministry of Health after 20 years of emergency aid in Liberia

25 June 2010
Monrovia - Today, after 20 years of emergency medical aid in Liberia, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) officially stops running its final hospitals and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare takes responsibility for these services.   “Liberia was devastated by 14 years of brutal civil war, with its health system in ruins by its end,” says Dr. Dhammika Perera, MSF Head of Mission for Liberia. “Recovery is always slow, but today the Ministry of Health takes over MSF’s last hospital services. We remain in the country, but after two decades, it is an important milestone for us and symbolic of how far Liberia has come in providing healthcare to its people again.”...
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MSF mobile medical response to tens thousands of Ivorian refugees near the border in Liberia

23 February 2011
Mobile clinics in villages situared in the County of Nimba, Liberia. Photo: Katrin Kisswani / MSF Since early December 2010, following the post election violence and tension in Ivory Coast, tens of thousands of Ivorian fleeing their country have sought refuge at the Liberian border. Up to more than 38 000 people, mainly women and children, are reported to have arrived in the Liberian County of Nimba, a region at the border with Ivory Coast. “Today we don’t see more people arriving, but with this massive infllux of refugees, the medical structures are already overwhelmed, and the medical needs have significantly increased. For several weeks, we have been monitoring the situation and the medical support MSF can provide,...
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Shattered Lives: Immediate medical care vital for sexual violence victims

01 March 2010
Through this report, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders(MSF) shares its experience in providing medical care, counselling and other forms of support to thousands of victims of sexual violence in many countries around the world. The report is partly born out of outrage about the inexcusable acts that these people have been subjected to and the damage inflicted upon their lives. It demonstrates why it is imperative to make immediate care available, and truly accessible, for those who have been sexually assaulted.  
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