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Time is running out Zamfara State: Lead poisoning crisis

On May 9th and 10th, 2012 Doctors without Borders (MSF), the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health held an International Conference on Lead Poisoning, with a special focus on the Zamfara crisis, which brought together leading medical, environmental and mining experts, government policy makers, and traditional leadership.
 Report - 14 Nov 2012
 
Nigeria

Time is running out Zamfara State lead poisoning crisis

On May 9th and 10th, 2012 Doctors without Borders (MSF), the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health held an International Conference on Lead Poisoning.
 Report - 14 Nov 2012
 
Lead poisoning and gold processing in Zamfara state, Nigeria, Ap

Zamfara state lead poisoning crisis

ix months on from an International Lead Poisoning Conference, Docters Without Borders (MSF)  warns that time is running out to solve the Zamfara crisis.
 Press Release - 14 Nov 2012
 
Displaced populations in North Kivu
Violence

Violence returns to Pinga, Democratic Republic of Congo

Active fighting has hit the town of Pinga in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo once again.
 Press Release - 14 Nov 2012
 
Yemen

Fieldworker: "I am willing to help in whatever way I can by going anywhere where my help is required"

Meet MSF's fieldworker, Adeline Oliver who recently left for her fifth assignment in Yemen.
 Fieldworkers Stories - 10 Nov 2012
 
Vaccines: A Preventable Fate
HIV/Aids

Reality check on vaccination in South Africa and Africa urgently needed

Press Release - 9 Nov 2012
 
Guatemala - Earthquake
Natural Disasters

Guatemala: After the earthquake

In the first hours following the 7.2-magnitude earthquake which hit Guatemala’s Pacific Coast on 7 November, MSF sent an emergency team to assess the medical and humanitarian needs of the population.
 Press Release - 6 Nov 2012
 
Humanitarian emergency in Rakhine state, Myanmar
HIV/Aids

MSF prevented from reaching most communities affected by violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) medical teams work to reach communities affected by the violence in Rakhine State.
 Press Release - 4 Nov 2012
 
HIV/Aids

Scaling up of viral load in rural Zimbabwe implications for phasing out d4T

A presentation by MSF.
 Briefing Document - 31 Oct 2012
 
HIV/Aids

TAC and MSF welcome government’s announcement that the draft IP policy will be presented to Cabinet on 5 December 2012

Last Tuesday, 23 October, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) co-hosted a meeting to examine South Africa’s Intellectual Property Policy.
 Press Release - 29 Oct 2012