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NEWS : 28 August 2008

Georgia: Assisting displaced people in Tbilisi

Photo: Brigitte Breuillac / MSF

MSF continues to deliver medical care and to distribute basic relief supplies to displaced people in and around Tbilisi. A large number of them are already trying to go back to their hometowns...[more]

 

NEWS : 28 August 2008

Georgia: Displaced flee to Tbilisi

In Tbilisi, MSF emergency teams are providing medical aid to those who have fled the fighting among Russians, Ossetians, and Georgians in South Ossetia. They are chiefly offering medical attention to people in shelters, some...[more]

 

NEWS : 27 August 2008

South Ossetia: MSF Medical Team Has Visited Tskhinvali Hospital

An MSF emergency team based in Tbilisi has been able to gain access to the separatist province of South Ossetia and visit Tskhinvali Hospital. MSF, which already provides support to displaced people in Tbilisi, has offered to...[more]

 

NEWS : 25 August 2008

65 wounded in Darfur camp shooting

Photo: Avril Benoît, MSF | Kalma IDP camp

At least 65 people were wounded in shooting early this morning in Kalma Camp in Darfur, Sudan. They were admitted to a clinic run by Médecins Sans Frontières. Kalma Camp is home to more...[more]

 

Georgia : 21 August 2008

MSF seeks access to South Ossetia, assisting displaced people

Fighting has calmed in and around the breakaway region of South Ossetia, and the warring parties have reached a ceasefire agreement. The short, violent conflict has displaced a lot of people in Georgia, South Ossetia and the...[more]

 

Georgia : 18 August 2008

Interview: On the ground in Georgia

MSF program manager Filipe Ribero has conducted several evaluations at sites where displaced persons are living in Tbilisi and Gori.  In the field, there is a sharp contrast between a massive influx of international aid and...[more]

 

NEWS : 14 August 2008

Chechnya program activity update

Despite the end of the war for independence from Russia, the Republic of Chechnya and the health of the Chechen population continue to be affected by instability. Beneath the relatively calm surface, a different conflict...[more]

 

NEWS : 11 August 2008

Georgia: Still no access to South Ossetia

Photo: REUTERS/ Gleb Garanich (GEORGIA) | Smoke is seen over buildings after bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008.

Following the outbreak of violence in the breakaway region of South Ossetia and...[more]

 

NEWS : 07 August 2008

MSF handover in Côte d’Ivoire

In 2007, after four years of civil war and political deadlock in Côte d’Ivoire, a peace agreement was signed between the government and rebel forces. The time was right for MSF to hand over its activities to the Ivorian Ministry...[more]

 

NEWS : 05 August 2008

Children living with HIV deserve fair treatment

Child-adapted medicines, diagnostics, and treatment strategies urgently needed[more]

 

NEWS : 01 August 2008

Confronting HIV-TB co-infection in Lesotho

Tuberculosis (TB) kills two million people and infects nine million every year, and those numbers are rising, especially in southern Africa, which has the highest rates of HIV. TB-HIV co-infection is already a major problem and...[more]