Preventing mother-to-child HIV in Uganda

24 August 2010

Less than 100 babies contract HIV from their mothers in US every year, while 18,000 known cases occur in Uganda. We visit one MSF-supported program to prevent such transmission, in Madi Opei.

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18 August 2010

Food insecurity is particularly severe in areas of the Sahel region this year; MSF is conducting emergency nutrition interventions.

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09 August 2010

Responding to the floods in Pakistan, a helicopter assessment of areas cut off from aid reminded MSF's emergency coordinator of the aftermath of the 2004-2005 tsunami.

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03 August 2010

More than a year after the end of the war in Sri Lanka, people who suffered spinal injuries as a result of the conflict are struggling to start life again. We meet some of the patients at MSF's rehabilitation unit in Pampaimadhu Hospital near Vavuniya.

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26 July 2010

In June violent clashes between Uzbek and Kyrgyz communities in southern Kyrgyzstan left hundreds dead and thousands wounded. Though the violence is now reduced, the fears are not. MSF has implemented a three-point strategy for treating victims of the violence and preparing for another potential surge.

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21 July 2010

Only 10 percent of the 27,000 people working for MSF around the world are international field workers – or those who have come from other places to the countries where we work. The overwhelming majority of MSF field staff are national staff working in their home countries. This week we meet a Ugandan doctor who began his career with MSF after seeing the organization's work in his country.

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12 July 2010

Six months after the earthquake in Haiti, MSF is running 19 health facilities in and around Port-au-Prince and the needs are still huge.

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06 July 2010

In an area of northwest Nigeria, gold-mining means extremely high levels of lead-poisoning and the deaths of children. MSF treats patients for lead-poisoning for the first time in the organization's history.

Additional music: "Love Theme" © David Merson Hess

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29 June 2010

Keeping babies alive during the first 28 days of their lives is challenging in some parts of the world, including Aweil, Southern Sudan, where MSF runs a neonatal care program.

Additional music: "Una hora de lluvia incesante" © Bosque De Mi Mente

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24 June 2010

The HIV-TB dual epidemic in Swaziland: one in four adults in the country has HIV, the highest prevalence in the world; and with compromised immune systems, people living with HIV are much more susceptible to other deadly diseases, including TB and its drug-resistant forms. MSF is using innovative ways to treat this deadly dual epidemic in a challenging environment.

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16 June 2010

MSF is trying to use the worldwide attention on South Africa during the FIFA World Cup to raise awareness about the funding crisis threatening the future of HIV/AIDS treatment.

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09 June 2010

Troubadours de l’espoir – the troubadours of hope - in Haiti. An MSF psychologist helped found this group of four young musicians who have become an integral part of one of MSF’s mental health teams.

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01 June 2010

Year after year, thousands of people come from countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia looking for a better life in Europe. Seventy percent of them enter through Greece, according to UN numbers. If they are caught, these migrants are arrested and held in detention centers – overcrowded, underserviced holding cells – for days or months. MSF is currently running a mental health program in two centers in the north, on the border with Turkey.

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April 2010

Follow the story of a malnourished child in Bihar State, one of the poorest areas of India. Also: India's generics industry is under threat; MSF treats gunshot victims in Southern Sudan; and alarmingly high numbers of female migrants in Morocco have been victims of sexual violence.

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March 2010

In Armenia, patients with drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) have to undergo extremely challenging treatment; MSF's reaction to NATO's call for NGOs to work alongside military operations; and in Burundi a strategic response to an alarming outbreak of malaria.

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February 2010

Meet Natacha, a mother in Burkina Faso who struggles for her children's survival every year during the hunger gap; hear about MSF’s work in some of Zimbabwe's prisons; and get an update on the urgent needs in Haiti.

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January 2010

From Port-au-Prince we bring you a report on MSF's emergency response to the Haiti earthquake; in the first three weeks MSF treated more than 11,000 patients. You'll hear from Haitian and international staff, as well as patients, on the ground.

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Haiti update - January 2010

Operations Manager, Paul McPhun, gives a detailed status report and operational update on MSF's emergency response following the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010.

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December 2009

Hear the song created by an MSF nurse in Central African Republic to raise awareness of sleeping sickness and malaria; MSF helps fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa's Khayelitsha township and addresses the double crises of HIV-TB co-infection in Swaziland.

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November 2009

Hear how a new proposal for free health care could save lives in Sierra Leone if it is implemented; and from Bangladesh, our operations manager describes how MSF is assisting tens of thousands of Rohingya people struggling to survive; plus, hear this month's MSF Emergency Updates.

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October 2009

This month we bring you a story about malnutrition in a land rich for cultivation: in the Democratic Republic of Congo, many children suffer from severe malnutrition even though food is abundant where they live. And in Uganda, a community-based movement of HIV-positive patients helps MSF provide care. Plus, this month's Emergency Updates.

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September 2009

We take you to northern Nigeria, where MSF is providing surgery to repair fistulas – life-altering internal injuries that can happen to women who endure prolonged, complicated labor. In Burkina Faso, malnutrition is at its annual peak and MSF is responding.We’ll hear from an MSF doctor who was there at the same time last year. You'll also hear emergency updates from MSF projects around the world.

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August 2009

Hear a report on the new challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS in developing countries; and we bring you a story from Ingushetia in the Russian Federation, where MSF is offering counseling to civilians living in a heightened state of fear. And, listen to this month’s emergency updates from some of MSF’s projects around the world.

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July 2009

This month, MSF launches a new podcast format, including a round-up of emergency updates from MSF projects worldwide.

In our main reports, hear how MSF's program for victims of sexual violence has helped one 17-year-old in Guatemala, which has a striking 10,000 reported cases per year. Also hear an interview with an MSF water and sanitation specialist who has just returned from Bangladesh, where, two months after Cyclone Aila, survivors are still struggling.

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June 2009

At least 10 percent of the population in Bolivia is carrying the parasite for Chagas disease. Few people, including medical staff, are aware of its prevalence, but MSF is running a groundbreaking program there.

Also: MSF is offering mental health care to displaced people in Mindanao, in the Philippines, and providing health care in Balochistan province in Pakistan, where decades of insecurity has made medical services rare.

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May 2009

MSF halts medical activities at a camp for Hmong refugees in northern Thailand after four years as the sole humanitarian organization providing assistance. Also, hear a report from the country of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific, where MSF is helping victims of widespread domestic violence.

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April 2009

MSF is carrying out its largest ever vaccination campaign to fight a meningitis epidemic in West Africa. And hear MSF field workers in Haiti describe the overwhelming need for medical care in that country.

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March 2009

At least three million Zimbabweans are living in South Africa after fleeing a dramatically deteriorating situation in a country in crisis, yet few can find respite. Also in this edition, hear how MSF assists victims of rape in projects around the world.

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February 2009

In this edition, hear a report from Haut Uélé Province in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, where MSF is trying to bring medical care to those injured and displaced by the Lord's Resistance Army. Listen to a report on the humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe that has given rise to the recent, ongoing cholera epidemic; and hear a day in the life of an MSF field worker from Texas helping to bring treatment to victims of cholera in Zimbabwe.

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January 2009

Listen to a report from Gaza and stories about two direly needed MSF maternal health programs in Haiti and Pakistan. Aid groups brought more surgical teams and supplies to Gaza last week, but wounds are still deep in this war-torn area. An MSF hospital for women with complicated pregnancies is thrown into chaos when government hospitals are shut down city-wide. And, a report from Kuchlak, a remote part of Pakistan near the Afghan border, where it is often dangerous to be a pregnant woman.

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December 2008

Hear about three of the urgent crises MSF named in its "Top Ten" of 2008: people's struggle to survive amid the violent chaos in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; the dire need for the international community to adopt proven, lifesaving ready-to-use foods to treat and prevent malnutrition; and a widespread cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe, brought on by the country's downward economic spiral.

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October 2008

In this edition, listen to reports on new strategies to combat malaria and MSF’s response to the devastation wrought by successive hurricanes hitting Haiti. In the top story, hear how thousands of Somalis and Ethiopians fleeing war and destitution are undertaking a perilous journey aboard illegal smugglers’ boats to cross the Gulf of Aden.

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September 2008

In this special edition, listen to stories from the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico. This August, MSF presented medical data from its HIV/AIDS projects around the world and discussed challenges to providing the best care. You’ll hear about two key issues: the shortage of health workers in sub-Saharan Africa that is helping to keep the 70 percent of people living with HIV from receiving the care they desperately need; and the challenges to treating children with HIV.

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June 2008

In this edition, listen to stories on why the current global system of pharmaceutical research and development is failing millions of people around the world, how MSF is assisting Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh who for more than a decade have been fleeing violence and persecution in Myanmar, and MSF's response to the nutritional emergency in southern Ethiopia.

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May 2008 – Part II

Part 2 of May's podcast series. This segment details another emergency update from Myanmar (also known as Burma) following the destruction resulting from Cyclone Nargis. While MSF has been present in Myanmar since 1992, the majority of our work has been in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. Souheil Reaiche, Head of Mission for the MSF teams in the Irrawaddy delta hardest hit by the cyclone, describes the devastation and the work that MSF has shifted towards.

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May 2008 – Part I

MSF's Deputy Country Manager in Yangon, describes the human impact of Cyclone Nargis' destruction and flooding of the Irrawaddy Delta region of Myanmar.

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April 2008

In this edition, listen to stories on an MSF study on predicting and responding to measles outbreaks in Niger, how a South African mother and her baby daughter fought to survive a deadly form of tuberculosis, and how thousands are still waiting for the promises of peace in southern Sudan.

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March 2008

In this edition, reports on how a neglected disease continues to cause blindness in people living with HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, on India's hidden war in Chhattisgarh state, and on the evolution of MSF's response to post-election violence in Kenya.

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February 2008

In this edition, reports on how a neglected disease continues to cause blindness in people living with HIV/AIDS in Southeast Asia, on India's hidden war in Chhattisgarh state, and on the evolution of MSF's response to post-election violence in Kenya.

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January 2008

In this edition, reports on three of the most underreported humanitarian stories from the past year, including stories on how MSF is responding to Sri Lanka's rekindled civil war and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province. The struggle for civilians to survive amid the violence in the Central African Republic is the top story.

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December 2007

Listen to how MSF is responding to conflict in Iraq, providing health care to vulnerable Burmese migrant workers in southern Thailand. In the top story, a report on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province, which has been the setting of chronic fighting for nearly a decade.

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October 2007

Reports on how an MSF hospital in Haiti is responding to the overwhelming need for maternal health care in Port-au-Prince, and ways MSF is confronting the AIDS pandemic in Cambodia. Plus, a story on MSF's use of lifesaving ready-to-use foods to treat malnourished children in Niger.

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August 2007 - Somalia Alert

In this special edition, we focus on the deteriorating situation for civilians and medical workers in Mogadishu, Somalia. Somalia has been wracked by violence for nearly 16 years now. But the past months has seen some of the worst fighting ever in the capital, Mogadishu.

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August 2007

How MSF teams are confronting TB on the Thai-Burma border and how epidemiological research is guiding MSF's programs. Firsthand accounts from Colombia's civil war.

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June/July 2008

Mourning the death of MSF aid worker, Elsa Serfass, in eastern Chad; and the dire lack of heathcare workers in southern Africa threatens patient access to HIV/AIDS treatment.

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May 2007

How MSF is responding to the upsurge of violence in the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka and Ivory Coast; and a feature on MSF's reconstructive surgery program in Amman, Jordan, for war-wounded Iraqi civilians.

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April 2007

In this month's edition, listen to stories on how MSF is treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the former Soviet state of Georgia, responding to the latest outbreaks of violence in the central African nation of Chad, and assisting victims of violence in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta region.

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March 2007

In this edition, current issues affecting access to essential medicines including a new, easy-to-use treatment for malaria; a court case in India that could prevent millions of people around the world from getting the medicines they need to survive; and the fight to secure a heat-stable version of a vital AIDS drug in Thailand.

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February 2007

Listen to reports on the ongoing violence along the Chad-Sudan border and MSF's response to an epidemic of meningitis in northern Uganda. In addition, a story on the global vaccine shortage for meningitis.

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January 2007

In this edition, you'll hear reports on an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever, a rare viral disease in northeastern Kenya; and on HIV/AIDS treatment in Malawi. Plus, learn how MSF is using an outdoor, interactive exhibit to shed light on the plight of the 33 million people worldwide who have been uprooted by war.

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December 2006

You'll hear reports on the floods in Somalia, the blurring of lines between military and humanitarian activities in the Horn of Africa, and an MSF study of measles epidemics that may change the way health agencies respond to future outbreaks. Also a report on the intensifying conflict along Chad's eastern border with Sudan.

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November 2006

In this edition, a story on the humanitarian situation in Darfur, Sudan, an interview with MSF's international council president on the war-torn region, and a report on the mounting human toll of drug-resistant tuberculosis.

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October 2006

In this edition, news about the surge of reported sexual violence cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo; MSF medical teams discuss the challenges of treating HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in one of Kenya's largest slums; and how MSF is using new strategies to combat acute malnutrition in Niger.

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September 2006

Includes stories from the medical frontlines in Haiti and Somalia, and a report on how MSF is bringing HIV/AIDS treatment to the most remote and mountainous areas of Lesotho.

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July/August 2006

Includes reports from Lebanon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a discussion of how the situation in Northern Uganda has evolved over the past year.

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June 2006

Includes a discussion with nutrition specialist Dr. Milton Tectonidis about an innovative strategy for treating acute malnutrition, as well as news from northern Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Palestinian Territories.

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MAY 2006

Includes news from Sudan and Colombia, and a report on the struggle to improve access in developing countries to critical new AIDS drugs.

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July 2007

Somalia: a report from Mogadish, with the coordinator of the new MSF project in the Somalian capital city.  MP3 audio (10:53) - 10.2MB

January 2007

Chad: a report on a refugee camp in the town of Gore, located on the border with the Central African Republic. Marine Buissonniere, MSF General Secretary, reflects on 2006 and the challenges faced by MSF throughout the year.  MP3 audio (20:56) - 19.1MB

December 2006

DRC: visit to an MSF patient with HIV, who develops support groups in Kinshasa. In Thailand, two children are able to live their lives now that they are on ARV treatment. MSF gives cameras to a series of patients around the world so they can document their lives with HIV.  MP3 audio (13:15) - 12.1MB

November 2006

DRC: visit to an MSF patient with HIV, who develops support groups in Kinshasa. In Thailand, two children are able to live their lives now that they are on ARV treatment. MSF gives cameras to a series of patients around the world so they can document their lives with HIV.  MP3 audio (17:25) - 15.9MB

October 2006

MSF in Russia, taking care of street children living in Moscow. Leanne, a Canadian nurse, shares a great logistical memory.  MP3 audio (8:21) - 7.65MB

September 2006

Decentralization of HIV care in DRC, and training the trainers. Southern Sudan and logistics issues.  MP3 audio (10:53) - 9.96MB

August 2006 (Part 2 of 2)

Follow up to life after the DRC elections. Would you wear a T-shirt stating that you are HIV-positive? And a lead-in to the XVI International AIDS Conference.  MP3 audio (15:23) - 14MB

August 2006 (Part 1 of 2)

Providing health care in Somalia is a challenge at every level. Humanitarian issues remain in pre-election DRC.  MP3 audio (12:55) - 11.8MB

July 2006

Thousands return to Sudanese villages where health care is minimal. In Rwanda, reproductive health care is an essential MSF concern. Lina, a Swedish nurse, remembers her time in Chad.  MP3 audio (13:20) - 12.2MB

Inaugural podcast

Indonesia earthquake. Malnutrition in Sierra Leone. Plus what audio can offer for MSF, and a volunteer's memory of work in the DRC.  MP3 audio (15:40) - 14.3MB