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Testimonies from people injured in Syria
© MSF

Syria: witnesses speak out against violence and abuses

Date: 08/02/2012

These testimonies from injured people across Syria, collected by MSF staff, reveal merciless persecution and repression of the injured and their caregivers.

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Breaking News
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Syria: medicine used as a weapon of persecution

Date: 08/02/2012

The Syrian regime is conducting a campaign of unrelenting repression against people wounded in demonstrations and the medical workers trying to treat them, MSF says.

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Mahmoud Abou Hamdi social worker and Roula Sharkieh health promoter at MSF, presenting MSF and their activities in the camps to Cheikh Mohammad Afif Abou Hassan. Burj el-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon
© Dina Debbas

Lebanon: more help for refugees

Date: 07/02/2012

Interview with Bruno Jochum, General Director of MSF, who has just returned from Lebanon where MSF are increasing their work in response to a large influx of refugees from Syria.

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Finger prick screening for sleeping sickness
© Robin Meldrum

Combating sleeping sickness

Date: 30/01/2012

MSF takes an innovative approach to eliminating sleeping sickness, taking mobile clinics by Land Rover and boat to far-flung parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

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Since July 2007, MSF has been running a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Bihar, India
© Anna Surinyach/MSF

What 'Uniting To Combat Tropical Diseases' really requires

Date: 27/01/2012

What ‘Uniting To Combat Tropical Diseases’ Really Requires: MSF’s concerns regarding the 30 January 2012 Neglected Tropical Diseases Conference in London

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Following the earthquake in Turkey, MSF extended its activities in the region through the provision of mental health care to the affected population.
© Knut Maehlumshagen

Turkey: mental health support for quake survivors

Date: 26/01/2012

MSF are providing mental health support to earthquake survivors in eastern Turkey. Many people are still living in tents or metal containers making their recovery difficult.

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A patient is treated by an MSF physiotherapist in a Misrata prison. September 2011
© Benoit Finck

Libya: detainees tortured and denied medical care

Date: 26/01/2012

Detainees in Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care leading MSF to suspend its operations in detention centres there.

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André,42 year old man, in MSF's HIV centre, Kabinda Hospital, Kinshasa, January 2011
© Mario Travaini/ MSF

DRC: 85 percent of AIDS patients deprived of treatment

Date: 25/01/2012

Eighty-five percent of AIDS patients in Democratic Republic Congo are deprived of treatment. It is crucial that authorities and donors commit to providing treatment to HIV/AIDS patients.

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Dr Rebecca Cuthbert travels with weekly mobile teams composed of medical and other staff into the forests of central India to bring health care to the villagers in Bijapur in Chattisgargh state.
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India: healthcare in red forests

Date: 24/01/2012

People living in tribal villages in central India are caught up in the conflict between Maoist rebels and government forces. Dr Rebecca Cuthbert describes how MSF takes the clinics to them.

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A man, 39, who was shot in the arm in the attack on Pibor on December 31st, 2011.
© Heather Whelan/MSF

South Sudan: patient testimonies

Date: 24/01/2012

People fleeing inter-communal conflict in Pibor, South Sudan have experienced extreme violence. They share their testimonies with MSF staff who are treating the wounded.

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Displaced population caused by cattle raiding in Pibor county, Jonglei State.
© Liang Zi

South Sudan: Latest attacks perpetuate violence

Date: 24/01/2012

Civilians continue to bear the brunt of inter-communal fighting, and wounded patients are still arriving at the MSF hospital in Pibor, three weeks after the violent attack on the town and villages.

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MSF staff conduct a home-based visit for a DR-TB patient in Kampong Cham province
© Eddy McCall/MSF

Cambodia: MSF increases TB support

Date: 19/01/2012

MSF is scaling up its tuberculosis support for people in the Cambodian province of Kampong Cham with community based care and active detection of the disease.

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