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Libya: MSF evacuates over 70 war-wounded by boat from Misrata

The international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Doctors Without Borders (MSF) evacuated 71 patients by boat on Sunday 3 April from the Libyan city of Misrata, where ongoing violence has overwhelmed medical facilities with the injured.
Press Release - 4 Apr 2011

Armed clashes following presidential election.

Exclusion from Healthcare

Ivory Coast: MSF unable to reach patients in war-torn Abidjan

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called today on the warring forces in Ivory Coast to take all necessary measures to ensure that people can safely reach medical facilities and that MSF medical teams can travel freely in the city of Abidjan and other parts of the country affected by fighting.
Press Release - 4 Apr 2011

Libya

Casualties evacuated by boat from Libya

Reducing Malaria in Mali

Given the high burden of illness caused by malaria in Mali, in 2005 MSF offered to collaborate with Malian health authorities to introduce an improved management approach of using Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) and Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapy (ACT).
Report - 31 Mar 2011

Measles

DR Congo: “Measles epidemic spiralling out of control” according to MSF

Over the past six months a measles epidemic has been sweeping through the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is raising the alarm and calling for concerted action to halt the spread of the disease.
Press Release - 28 Mar 2011

Drug-resistant TB

Scaling up diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Khayelitsha

Since 2007, in response to the growing epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in Khayelitsha, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the City of Cape Town and the Provincial Government of the Western Cape are carrying out a pilot project to provide treatment to DR-TB patients at the primary care level.
Briefing Document - 24 Mar 2011