http://www.msf.org.uk/news.aspxAll the latest news from around the world from the MSF UK web site.Copyright 2008 MSF. All rights reserved.Cases of physical violence have been reported as well as degrading vaginal and anal searches, by Angolan soldiers during the expulsion.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/congolese_expelled_from_angola_20080704.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/congolese_expelled_from_angola_20080704.newsFri, 04 Jul 2008 15:10:01 GMTThis MSF nutritional feeding centre was set up in response to the malnutrition crisis in Ethiopia. Here, children's caretakers describe their struggle over the last few months. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/victims_of_the_food_crisis_20080703.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/victims_of_the_food_crisis_20080703.newsThu, 03 Jul 2008 11:17:11 GMTMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on G8 leaders who will gather next week in Japan to take bold decisions to adequately finance food aid and nutrition programmes directed at young children. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/g8_leaders_must_take_action_20080702.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/g8_leaders_must_take_action_20080702.newsThu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMTMSF teams working in the Sadaa, Yemen, have been evacuated due to heavy fighting. Access to the conflict regions is prohibited and there is no news available on civilian casualties or deaths, but heavy weapons and aerial bombardments are being used. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/war_in_saada_makes_access_impossible_20080702.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/war_in_saada_makes_access_impossible_20080702.newsWed, 02 Jul 2008 10:27:33 GMTWhen MSF first assessed healthcare in Bor in 2005, they found a critical situation. The population of the town had begun to increase rapidly, there was no reliable healthcare, garbage was littering the streets, and people were using the Nile river as a latrine and a place to wash....http://www.amicus-m.org:80/msf_borhospital_handover_20080701.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/msf_borhospital_handover_20080701.newsTue, 01 Jul 2008 16:51:32 GMTThe MSF team gained access to the overcrowded centre on Friday 27 June to assess their most urgent needs. When the team returned on Saturday morning with relief materials to start their work, they found the centre completely emptied. The authorities confirmed that all Zimbabweans in the centre had been transported back across the border.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/South_African_authorities_must_stop_deporting_Zimbabweans_20080630.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/South_African_authorities_must_stop_deporting_Zimbabweans_20080630.newsMon, 30 Jun 2008 10:55:14 GMTSomalia is no longer on the verge of a catastrophe, the disaster is happening now. Last week alone, over 500 severely malnourished children were admitted in our nutritional programs.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Somalia_the_disaster_is_happening_now_20080626.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Somalia_the_disaster_is_happening_now_20080626.newsThu, 26 Jun 2008 14:56:30 GMTThe levels of severe acute malnutrition in the areas where MSF is working suggests a crisis that is going to get a lot worse.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/malnutrition_crisis_ethiopia_update_20080703.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/malnutrition_crisis_ethiopia_update_20080703.newsThu, 26 Jun 2008 11:07:00 GMTAn estimated 800 ethnic Lao Hmong refugees were forcibly returned to Laos by the Thai government on Sunday, June 22, and the Thai authorities intend to proceed in the coming days with further repatriationshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Thailand_forcibly_returns_hundreds_of_Hmong_refugees_to_Laos_20080625.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Thailand_forcibly_returns_hundreds_of_Hmong_refugees_to_Laos_20080625.newsWed, 25 Jun 2008 17:25:22 GMTClinical psychologist Sylvia Wamser talks to us about her work treating people suffering from emotional trauma in the Palestinian Territories.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/gaza_mental_health_interview_20080624.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/gaza_mental_health_interview_20080624.newsTue, 24 Jun 2008 10:32:19 GMTIn its report “No Choice”, MSF documents the conditions of the perilous journey and calls for increased assistance for the thousands of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants fleeing their home countries.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/yemen_no_choice_20080619.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/yemen_no_choice_20080619.newsThu, 19 Jun 2008 11:09:31 GMTAt the height of the violence, the militia were raiding homes at night and the police during the day – there was no respite for the people living in Mount Elgon and tens of thousands have fled in fear. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/mount_elgon_simon_burroughs_interview_20080618.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/mount_elgon_simon_burroughs_interview_20080618.newsWed, 18 Jun 2008 11:36:52 GMTThe international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for an immediate increase in assistance for the people of Mount Elgon in western Kenya, and an end to the indiscriminate violence they have been enduring for almost two years. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/mount_elgon_does_anybody_care_20080617.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/mount_elgon_does_anybody_care_20080617.newsTue, 17 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMTMSF report containing first-hand accounts of whole communities living in fear and tens of thousands of people being forced to leave their homes and villages...http://www.amicus-m.org:80/mount_elgon_report_20080616.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/mount_elgon_report_20080616.newsMon, 16 Jun 2008 17:27:38 GMTIf the international community doesn’t respond appropriately and timely - which means now - the situation is going to get much worse and it is already out of hand.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/food_simply_not_there_ethiopia_20080612.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/food_simply_not_there_ethiopia_20080612.newsThu, 12 Jun 2008 14:57:05 GMTA month after Cyclon Nargis hit Myanmar (Burma), addressing the mental and emotional trauma being suffered by victims of the cyclone is increasingly vital.  http://www.amicus-m.org:80/mental_health_support_for_traumatised_cyclone_victims_vitally_needed_20080612.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/mental_health_support_for_traumatised_cyclone_victims_vitally_needed_20080612.newsThu, 12 Jun 2008 11:37:10 GMT"There’s been no rain this year so there’s very little work. Some days we eat, but mostly we go to sleep with no food.”, Jalalo from Ethiopiahttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/malnutrition_worse_this_year_in_ethiopia_20080605.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/malnutrition_worse_this_year_in_ethiopia_20080605.newsThu, 05 Jun 2008 13:53:25 GMTMSF Calls for Reforms to Food Aid and Nutrition Programmes to Save Young Liveshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/un_food_crisis_summit_20080603.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/un_food_crisis_summit_20080603.newsTue, 03 Jun 2008 16:43:52 GMT“People sometimes look for someone to listen to them and other times to help them make a decision”  http://www.amicus-m.org:80/stefan_huber_colombia_interview_20080602.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/stefan_huber_colombia_interview_20080602.newsMon, 02 Jun 2008 17:26:09 GMT---Press Release---  MSF alarmed by lack of protection of foreign nationals affected by recent violence.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/relocation_trauma_of_displaced_in_south_africa_20080602.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/relocation_trauma_of_displaced_in_south_africa_20080602.newsMon, 02 Jun 2008 16:58:51 GMT"Many [survivors] are still in shock after the terrible experience of the quake. They clearly need psychological support."http://www.amicus-m.org:80/china_quake_situation_20080530.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/china_quake_situation_20080530.newsFri, 30 May 2008 11:48:12 GMTOn the way we would pass dead bodies and animals in the water. In some places bodies were buried  and the villagers had not yet been able to remove them. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/eyewitness_account_from_myanmar_delta_20080530.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/eyewitness_account_from_myanmar_delta_20080530.newsFri, 30 May 2008 10:55:09 GMTThe Dutch government has taken MSF to court in a bid to gain reimbursement for a ransom it paid to free Dutch national Arjan Erkel, MSF head of mission, who was held hostage for 600 days in the Northern Caucasus. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Dutch_Government_Pursues_MSF_in_Swiss_Federal_Court_20080529.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Dutch_Government_Pursues_MSF_in_Swiss_Federal_Court_20080529.newsThu, 29 May 2008 14:29:52 GMTPeople have not only lost houses; they’ve also lost their fishing boats, in some cases shrimp farms and salt plains that they were getting income from.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/interview_vince_hoedt_myanmar_20080603.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/interview_vince_hoedt_myanmar_20080603.newsThu, 29 May 2008 09:36:00 GMTLarge scale meningitis epidemic prevented after 300,000 people are vaccinated in Niger.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/meningitis_vaccination_niger_20080527.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/meningitis_vaccination_niger_20080527.newsTue, 27 May 2008 15:51:06 GMTNeeds in the Delta are beginning to shift away from minor injuries, to issues such as fever, diarrhea and respiratory tract infections.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/medical_needs_changing_in_the_delta_20080527.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/medical_needs_changing_in_the_delta_20080527.newsTue, 27 May 2008 13:53:08 GMTOnly two weeks since MSF set up emergency feeding centres in Ethiopia, over six hundred children are already being treated, with more arriving everyday.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/500_ethiopian_chilrdren_treated_at_msf_nutrition_centres_20080527.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/500_ethiopian_chilrdren_treated_at_msf_nutrition_centres_20080527.newsTue, 27 May 2008 13:08:46 GMTThree weeks after Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, many survivors still lack basic supplies needed to survive and the amount of aid entering the affected area remains inadequate.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/cyclone_victims_still_lacking_basic_supplies_20080527.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/cyclone_victims_still_lacking_basic_supplies_20080527.newsTue, 27 May 2008 11:38:46 GMT“The panic was so widespread that no one had time to take anything or to even think of their own family." says Inma Vazquez, MSF Head of Mission in Sudan.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/fighting_in_abyei_sudan_20080522.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/fighting_in_abyei_sudan_20080522.newsThu, 22 May 2008 16:37:58 GMTThis MSF video shows the dreadful conditions in Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis and highlights the problems for people and the MSF teams working in the affected areas. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/big_operation_but_more_help_needed_20080522.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/big_operation_but_more_help_needed_20080522.newsThu, 22 May 2008 12:29:24 GMTMSF is deeply concerned about the safety of displaced migrants and refugees in Johannesburg, who fear for their lives and have nowhere to turn.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/violence_erupts_in_south_africa_20080520.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/violence_erupts_in_south_africa_20080520.newsTue, 20 May 2008 11:18:19 GMTMSF staff have seen government officials and armed police going from tent to tent threatening people and pressuring them to leave. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Witnesses_Forced_Return_and_Resettlement_from_Camp_in_Western_Kenya_20080519.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Witnesses_Forced_Return_and_Resettlement_from_Camp_in_Western_Kenya_20080519.newsMon, 19 May 2008 12:13:26 GMTMSF calls on the Government of Myanmar to allow for an immediate scale-up of the relief effort and free and unhindered access of international humanitarian staff to the affected areas.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/msf_call_for_immediate_escalation_of_relief_operations_20080520.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/msf_call_for_immediate_escalation_of_relief_operations_20080520.newsFri, 16 May 2008 10:08:00 GMTresults from the initial assessment indicate an urgent need for shelters, drinking water, and medical and sanitation material. Most pharmacies in the area were destroyed by the quake, and people are facing a dire shortage of medicines. In Beichuan district alone over 5,000 people are reportedly dead and further 10,000 are still missing.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Sending_25_Specialists_To_China_Earthquake_20080516.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Sending_25_Specialists_To_China_Earthquake_20080516.newsFri, 16 May 2008 08:55:48 GMTMSF now has more than 250 staff working in the delta area. But getting material from our warehouses in Yangon to the worst affected areas is a logistics challenge. We now have ten boats for distributing aid in the delta and ten trucks are ferrying aid from Yangon to Pathein, a town in the north of the delta. So far MSF teams have managed to distribute 275 tons of aid http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Water_and_sanitation_experts_join_250strong_MSF_team_20080515.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Water_and_sanitation_experts_join_250strong_MSF_team_20080515.newsThu, 15 May 2008 11:07:47 GMTWe have a pool of people who are very skilled at setting up this kind of equipment in a very short space of time, and then making sure that it runs correctly. Keeping the equipment running is actually more of a challenge than setting it up in the first place.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Michel_Becks_explains_need_for_Watsan_20080515.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Michel_Becks_explains_need_for_Watsan_20080515.newsThu, 15 May 2008 09:36:27 GMTListen to MSF doctor Asis Min give an eyewitness account of the logistical challenge facing MSF teams in the most devastated region of the country.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/a_complete_abyss_20080513.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/a_complete_abyss_20080513.newsTue, 13 May 2008 17:23:18 GMTMSF mobilises medical aid following what Chinese state media are calling the most devastating eartquake in 30 years.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_team_react_to_china_quake_20080513.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_team_react_to_china_quake_20080513.newsTue, 13 May 2008 11:00:10 GMTJuli Niebuhr is MSF Deputy Country Manager in Myanmar. In this podcast, she describes the desperate situation MSF teams face in storm-affected areas of Myanmar (Burma).http://www.amicus-m.org:80/frontline_report_myanmar_cyclose_aftermath_20080512.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/frontline_report_myanmar_cyclose_aftermath_20080512.newsMon, 12 May 2008 16:08:13 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/First_MSF_Cargo_Plane_Delivers_in_Myanmar_20080512.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/First_MSF_Cargo_Plane_Delivers_in_Myanmar_20080512.newsMon, 12 May 2008 10:25:19 GMTOn the Bassein River, MSF teams are using two boats to reach the most affected areas on both sides.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/supplie_delivered_by_boat_20080509.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/supplie_delivered_by_boat_20080509.newsSat, 10 May 2008 02:37:00 GMTAs MSF scales up its operations, there is a need for more technical experts and further supplies in the coming days. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/first_relief_plane_permission_to_land_20080509.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/first_relief_plane_permission_to_land_20080509.newsFri, 09 May 2008 13:55:07 GMTJoe Belliveau, MSF Operations Manager, answers your frequently asked questions on Cyclone Nargis and MSF's aid efforts on the ground.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/myanmar_cyclone_faqs_20080509.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/myanmar_cyclone_faqs_20080509.newsFri, 09 May 2008 10:42:37 GMTPrior to the cyclone, about 180,000 people lived in the Irrawady Delta in Myanmar. MSF teams observed "95% destruction" of homes and everything else.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Reaches_Worst_Hit_Areas_in_Myanmar_20080508.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Reaches_Worst_Hit_Areas_in_Myanmar_20080508.newsThu, 08 May 2008 18:42:23 GMTOne man, a sailor, told us his village had been completely destroyed. He said he had no news of the 4,000 inhabitants of a neighbouring village, which is to this day still under water.  People tell stories of spending the night of the cyclone hanging on to trees all night long, while watching their villages being destroyed.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Villages_Still_Under_Water_20080507.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Villages_Still_Under_Water_20080507.newsWed, 07 May 2008 18:25:57 GMT"...it is essential that emergency visas are issued and that relief shipments are allowed to arrive. MSF teams have been on standby for 48 hours waiting to come to help us in the Delta...." says Souheil Reiche, Head of MSF Operations in Yangon http://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_assists_Myanmar_cyclone_victims_20080507.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_assists_Myanmar_cyclone_victims_20080507.newsWed, 07 May 2008 14:43:33 GMTThe Nargis cyclone has caused the death of at least 10,000 people along with severe material and structural damage.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/myanmar_cyclone_20080506.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/myanmar_cyclone_20080506.newsTue, 06 May 2008 10:04:15 GMTMore than 150 countries, meeting at a UN health research and development (R&D) summit in Geneva this week, must grab the opportunity to right a terrible wrong.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/health_of_millions_at_stake_20080428.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/health_of_millions_at_stake_20080428.newsMon, 28 Apr 2008 16:36:46 GMTMSF denounces the effects of the embargo on humanitarian medical aid.  http://www.amicus-m.org:80/fuel_crisis_in_gaza_20080425.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/fuel_crisis_in_gaza_20080425.newsFri, 25 Apr 2008 10:06:29 GMTIn Sierra Leone, malaria is rife. It is the biggest killer of children under five and causes a massive burden on families and the country’s barely functioning health system.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/world_malaria_day_240408_20080423.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/world_malaria_day_240408_20080423.newsThu, 24 Apr 2008 18:00:00 GMTMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the launch in Brazil of a new drug against P. Falciparum, the most dangerous type of malaria. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/new_fixed_dose_treatment_for_malaria_20080424.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/new_fixed_dose_treatment_for_malaria_20080424.newsThu, 24 Apr 2008 17:00:00 GMTMeet the volunteers providing malaria diagnosis and treatment in their communities in Bo, Sierra Leone.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/profilecommunity_health_volunteers_20080423.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/profilecommunity_health_volunteers_20080423.newsWed, 23 Apr 2008 15:46:02 GMTPrudence Hamade, Head of MSF’s Malaria Working Group talks about the state of malaria today.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/malaria_day_2008_opinion_piece_230408_20080423.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/malaria_day_2008_opinion_piece_230408_20080423.newsWed, 23 Apr 2008 02:41:00 GMTFriends and colleagues mourn the loss of Gigi Baguma, an MSF logistician lost in the Goma plane crash. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/msf_colleague_disappears_goma_plane_crash_170408_20080418.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/msf_colleague_disappears_goma_plane_crash_170408_20080418.newsThu, 17 Apr 2008 01:35:00 GMTOne of the groups most affected by these crises will undoubtedly be the 1.8 million Zimbabweans living with HIV/AIDS.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/zimbabwe_hiv_project_110408_20080411.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/zimbabwe_hiv_project_110408_20080411.newsFri, 11 Apr 2008 11:10:09 GMTMSF teams have treated more than 31 wounded patients, including 15 gunshot wounds in the Haitian capital city, Port-au-Prince.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/haiti_demos_100408_20080410.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/haiti_demos_100408_20080410.newsThu, 10 Apr 2008 15:09:24 GMTFor the ninth time in a decade DRC and Colombia feature in the 'Top Ten Underreported Humanitarian Stories' list. Every year MSF publishes this list to spotlight ten humanitarian crises that have received little or no attention from the world's media. The 2007 list also features countries such as Myanmar and Sri Lanka and issues of tuberculosis infection and malnutrition.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/top_ten_unreported_2007_20080410.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/top_ten_unreported_2007_20080410.newsThu, 10 Apr 2008 13:46:03 GMTHealth facilities in the Gaza Strip have become extremely fragile. Once the current crisis passes and is off the media's agenda, the situation will continue to worsen, MSF warns. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/gazasituationworsening_20080408.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/gazasituationworsening_20080408.newsTue, 08 Apr 2008 17:33:51 GMTLiberia's president visited an MSF-supported Paediatric Hospital. The President was shown the children's hospital, which admits over 1,000 patients monthly.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/liberiahospitalcare_20080408.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/liberiahospitalcare_20080408.newsTue, 08 Apr 2008 17:18:21 GMTA visit to this region is like travelling far back in time, to the point when civilisation first began.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/darfursuffering_20080408.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/darfursuffering_20080408.newsTue, 08 Apr 2008 16:34:05 GMTIn southern Sudan, thousands of families displaced by the recent armed conflict in the oil-rich region of Abyei are in need of emergency assistance. This is occurring in a region where resources are already extremely depleted.  http://www.amicus-m.org:80/peacesudan_20080408.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/peacesudan_20080408.newsTue, 08 Apr 2008 16:19:00 GMT"This has been an extremely difficult decision to make," said MSF's Director of Operations for Somalia. "But we cannot continue working in a place where our staff have been deliberately targeted and brutally murdered."http://www.amicus-m.org:80/somaliaclosing_20080408.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/somaliaclosing_20080408.newsTue, 08 Apr 2008 16:14:36 GMTMalnutrition and measles combined are extremely serious for young children as it leaves them more vulnerable to infectious diseases such as measles, and children with measles are more susceptible to malnutrition.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/nigervaccination_20080408.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/nigervaccination_20080408.newsTue, 08 Apr 2008 12:51:38 GMTIn December 2007, MSF began providing essential health care to Zimbabwean migrants, estimated beyond the one million mark, in South Africa.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/zimbabweanmigrants_20080408.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/zimbabweanmigrants_20080408.newsTue, 08 Apr 2008 12:31:26 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Geneva_Court_Rules_in_Favor_of_MSF_in_Dutch_Government_Case_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Geneva_Court_Rules_in_Favor_of_MSF_in_Dutch_Government_Case_20080313.newsWed, 27 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTStuck in a highly volatile security context Sudanese refugees who have recently arrived just over the border in Birak, Chad, are in an extremely worrying situation. With ongoing combat a few kilometres away from their settlement the lives of the refugees and those who remain in targeted areas in Darfur, are still at risk. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_Sudanese_Refugees_in_Birak_Region_Under_Threat_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_Sudanese_Refugees_in_Birak_Region_Under_Threat_20080313.newsSat, 23 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTWhile many peopled have already returned to NDjamena further aid is reaching the thousands of refugees that still remain in the border town of Kousseri in Cameroon.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Crisis_in_Chad_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Crisis_in_Chad_20080313.newsFri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTCholera cases are still on the rise in Katanga province in the south-west of the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC. Since late September a total of 4029 cases have been reported by MSF emergency teams in the cities of Lubumbashi and Likasi. At least 97 patients have died.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Treats_More_Than_4000_for_Cholera_in_DRCs_Katanga_Province_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Treats_More_Than_4000_for_Cholera_in_DRCs_Katanga_Province_20080313.newsWed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Darfur_Aerial_Bombings_and_Attacks_Lead_Thousands_of_Civilians_to_Flee_to_Chad_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Darfur_Aerial_Bombings_and_Attacks_Lead_Thousands_of_Civilians_to_Flee_to_Chad_20080313.newsWed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTOne week after the fighting ended things are slowly getting back to normal in NDjamena. The streets are starting to fill again even if many shops in the town centre remain closed. In the hospitals too the worst of the crisis has passed. ...but thousands of families do not yet dare to go home, and continue to survive in precarious conditions a few steps away from the border.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/As_Calm_Returns_to_NDjamena_Thousands_of_Refugees__Lead_Precarious_Existence_in__20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/As_Calm_Returns_to_NDjamena_Thousands_of_Refugees__Lead_Precarious_Existence_in__20080313.newsTue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTDoctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) continues to provide medical assistance to civilians affected by recent fighting in NDjamena, Chad's capital city, as well as to refugees who have fled the combat to Cameroon. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_MSF_Teams_Treating_Wounded_and_Assisting_Refugees_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_MSF_Teams_Treating_Wounded_and_Assisting_Refugees_20080313.newsFri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTOver a month after Kenyas disputed election the repercussions continue to be felt throughout the country. According to the Kenyan Red Cross more than 1000 people are thought to have been killed and 300000 displaced. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) ), which has worked in Kenya since 1992, flew in emergency staff to help respond to the crisis. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Responding_to_Kenyas_PostElection_Violence_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Responding_to_Kenyas_PostElection_Violence_20080313.newsWed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTDoctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) continues to provide medical assistance to civilians affected by recent fighting in NDjamena, Chad's capital city, as well as to refugees, who have fled the combat to Cameroon and displaced populations in the east of the country.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_MSF_Responds_to_Fighting_in_NDjamena_and_Fleeing_Refugees__20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_MSF_Responds_to_Fighting_in_NDjamena_and_Fleeing_Refugees__20080313.newsWed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTMSF treated 70 wounded in NDjamena the Chad capital over the weekend but many hundreds of other wounded are reported to be in other hospitals in the city. Over the weekend access to hospitals was limited due to the ongoing fighting. MSF has been unable to access the other hospitals as the roads are blocked by the masses of people fleeing from the city.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_MSF_Treating_Wounded_in_NDjamena_and_Eastern_Chad_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_MSF_Treating_Wounded_in_NDjamena_and_Eastern_Chad_20080313.newsMon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTSince fighting broke out in the Chadian capital NDjamena on February 2 Doctors BordersMeacutedecins Sans Frontiegraveres MSF has treated 50 wounded people referred by the Chadian Red Cross to the hospital where MSF is working. Most of the woundedhttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_Fifty_Wounded_Treated_by_MSF_Teams_in_NDjamena_Since_February_2_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Chad_Fifty_Wounded_Treated_by_MSF_Teams_in_NDjamena_Since_February_2_20080313.newsSun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMTOn January 25 an MSF mobile team had been out for ten minutes when they had to return to base due to fighting and rioting in the streets. Later that day the team was able to get to the hospital and found that 116 people needed surgical care.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_Treating_the_Wounded_in_Nakuru_and_Naivasha__20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_Treating_the_Wounded_in_Nakuru_and_Naivasha__20080313.newsFri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_is_Shocked_and_Outraged_by_Attack_on_our_Team_in_Somalia_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_is_Shocked_and_Outraged_by_Attack_on_our_Team_in_Somalia_20080313.newsFri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/DR_Congo_Cholera_spreads_in_several_cities_in_Katanga_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/DR_Congo_Cholera_spreads_in_several_cities_in_Katanga_20080313.newsWed, 30 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTIn a move that could have major implications on access to a cornerstone HIVAIDS medicine across the developing world the U.S. Patent Trademark Office on January 23 2008 revoked four key patents held by the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences on the drug tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF).http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Patent_revoked_on_Tenofovir_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Patent_revoked_on_Tenofovir_20080313.newsTue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Three_MSF_Aid_Workers_Killed_in_Serious_Incident_in_Kismayo_Somalia_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Three_MSF_Aid_Workers_Killed_in_Serious_Incident_in_Kismayo_Somalia_20080313.newsMon, 28 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMTDespite the signing of a peace agreement between North and South Sudan on January 9 2005 which ended decades of civil war medical needs in southern Sudan remain overwhelming. Outbreaks of disease and violence continue while many people still do not have access to basic health care, resulting in preventable deaths.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Southern_Sudan_Still_a_Struggle_for_Survival_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Southern_Sudan_Still_a_Struggle_for_Survival_20080313.newsMon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTThere has been a serious car incident involving several staff members from the medical humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The incident occurred in the Somali town of Kismayo.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_aid_workers_involved_in_serious_incident_in_Kismayo_Somalia__20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_aid_workers_involved_in_serious_incident_in_Kismayo_Somalia__20080311.newsMon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTIn Sri Lanka Doctors Without BordersMdecins Sans Frontires MSF teams are present at Point Pedro in the Jaffna Peninsula where the population is still isolated by the conflict. In spite of restrictions imposed by the governmental authorities MSF phttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Sri_Lanka_Conflict_Isolates_MSFAssisted_Population_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Sri_Lanka_Conflict_Isolates_MSFAssisted_Population_20080313.newsMon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTIt is not uncommon for people living with advanced HIVAIDS in Southeast Asia to go completely blind mysteriously and in a very short period of time. In fact these irreversible cases of blindness are caused by Cytomegalovirus CMV a member of the herpes virus family, which leads to blindness in those with compromised immune systems. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/CMV_Retinitis_Neglected_Disease_of_the_AIDS_Pandemic_Causing_Blindness_in_Southeast_Asia__20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/CMV_Retinitis_Neglected_Disease_of_the_AIDS_Pandemic_Causing_Blindness_in_Southeast_Asia__20080311.newsThu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTIn response to the violence that has hit Nairobi in the last few days Doctors Without BordersMedecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has provided care to wounded people in health centres as well as in referral hospitals. Filipe Ribeiro and Rmi Carrier respectively run MSF’s activities in Mathare and Kibera. They speak about the last few days of violence in Nairobi.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_Severe_Violence_in_Nairobi_Slums__20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_Severe_Violence_in_Nairobi_Slums__20080311.newsWed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTA collection of the latest field reports from MSF in Kenya where violence erupted after the December 27 presidential elections leaving hundreds dead so far and many more wounded and displaced. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/PostElection_Violence_in_Kenya_Brings_Displacement_and_Pain_20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/PostElection_Violence_in_Kenya_Brings_Displacement_and_Pain_20080311.newsWed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Uganda_Ebola_Epidemic_in_Bundibugyo_Ends_20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Uganda_Ebola_Epidemic_in_Bundibugyo_Ends_20080311.newsWed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTThe tightened blockade in recent days has sharply restricted resupplying activities in the Gaza Strip. Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams are continuing aid activities on site but are concerned about shortages of medicine, problems with hospital services and limited access to medical care.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip___20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip___20080311.newsTue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTAs protests continue throughout Kenya Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) teams respond to the additional needs created by the violence of recent weeks...One of the main challenges will now be to continue to respond to indirect consequences of violence for the most vulnerable displaced people, who will probably remain displaced for months.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/The_Effects_of_Violence_in_Kenya_Continue__20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/The_Effects_of_Violence_in_Kenya_Continue__20080311.newsTue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Attempting_to_Reach_Those_Trapped_in_the_North_Kivu_Conflict_20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Attempting_to_Reach_Those_Trapped_in_the_North_Kivu_Conflict_20080311.newsMon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTBetween January 16 and January 18 MSF medical teams have treated 34 wounded in the Kibera and Mathare slums of Kenya's capital Nairobi where the organization runs HIVAIDS and TB treatment programs. Additional MSF teams are working in western Kenya.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Treats_New_Wounded_in_Nairobi_20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Treats_New_Wounded_in_Nairobi_20080311.newsFri, 18 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTOn January 2 an MSF team of one nurse and one logistician went to Eldoret a Kenyan town 250 km 155 miles northwest of the capital Nairobi. In the wake of the violence that erupted after elections in December the town was faced with a large influx of displaced people...http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_Assisting_the_most_vulnerable_in_Eldoret__20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_Assisting_the_most_vulnerable_in_Eldoret__20080311.newsFri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTDoctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres ( MSF)  is working in Eldoret a town about 155 miles northwest of Nairobi where thousands of people have congregated to escape the violence following the December elections. http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_My_house_has_been_burned_but_I_want_to_go_back_20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_My_house_has_been_burned_but_I_want_to_go_back_20080311.newsFri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTUganda is one of the African countries that boasts of being at the forefront in the fight against AIDS. The country has initiated the decentralization of HIVAIDS care in a plan to get all Ugandans living with HIV on effective antiretroviral ARV treatmenthttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Arua_Uganda_A_Difficult_Decentralization_20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Arua_Uganda_A_Difficult_Decentralization_20080311.newsWed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMTEight additional MSF international staff have arrived in Kenya to help assess and respond to the needs created by the violence and insecurity that have rocked the country since December 29. ..MSF is helping thousands of people who have been displaced during the violence of the last few days.http://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_MSF_Ramps_Up_Presence_as_Violence_Continues__20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Kenya_MSF_Ramps_Up_Presence_as_Violence_Continues__20080311.newsWed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Two_Doctors_Without_Borders_Aid_Workers_Freed_in_Bossaso_Somalia_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Two_Doctors_Without_Borders_Aid_Workers_Freed_in_Bossaso_Somalia_20080313.newsWed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Somalia_MSF_Demands_Access_to_the_Area_Where_Two_Expatriates_Are_Still_in_Captiv_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Somalia_MSF_Demands_Access_to_the_Area_Where_Two_Expatriates_Are_Still_in_Captiv_20080313.newsFri, 28 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Asks_Somali_Authorities_for_Safe_and_Immediate_Release_of_Two_Staff_Members_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/MSF_Asks_Somali_Authorities_for_Safe_and_Immediate_Release_of_Two_Staff_Members_20080313.newsWed, 26 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMTIn the heart of India clashes between Naxalites-the local Maoists-and the Indian government have displaced tens of thousands of people. The fighting which affects large swathes of Chattisgarh state flared up in 2005 and since then an estimated 56000 are living in IDP campshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Reaching_victims_of_Indias_hidden_war_20080311.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Reaching_victims_of_Indias_hidden_war_20080311.newsFri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Doctors_Without_Borders_Releases_Tenth_Annual_Top_Ten_Most_Underreported_Humanit_20080313.newshttp://www.amicus-m.org:80/Doctors_Without_Borders_Releases_Tenth_Annual_Top_Ten_Most_Underreported_Humanit_20080313.newsThu, 20 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT