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Emergency Update:
MSF Teams Working in China’s Quake-hit Areas

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Food Aid Missing Critical Ingredients for Children Under Two

As food aid is mobilized in response to the global food price crisis, MSF warns that sending adult food to feed young children will not save them from the risk of malnutrition.

Southern Sudan

© Sven Torfinn

Southern Sudan:
Still Struggling to Survive

More than three years after the signing of a peace agreement between North Sudan and South Sudan in January 2005, medical needs remain critical, and simmering tensions have led to sporadic bouts of fighting.

India

© Greg Constantine

Fearing a Forced Return: Lao Hmong Refugees in Thailand

Nearly 8,000 ethnic Lao Hmong currently confined to a guarded, barbed-wire enclosed camp controlled by the Thai military in northern Thailand face the imminent threat of a forced return to Laos.

Darfur

© Jun Aoki/MSF

Overhaul of Medical Research & Development System Critical

A UN health R&D summit in Geneva failed to take concrete action towards reforming a medical innovation system that largely disregards the health needs of millions.

Press Release

MSF Welcomes New Malaria Treatment

© Thomas Prochnow/MSF

A new drug against P. Falciparum, the most dangerous type of malaria, has been developed by DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) in partnership with Farmanguinhos/ Fiocruz. ASMQ is the first drug against malaria that combines artesunate (AS) and mefloquine (MQ) in one fixed dose. Read More
Special Report

Huge Needs in Congo Despite Lull in Fighting

© Cedric Gerbehaye

The Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has been the setting of chronic fighting for nearly a decade. Since August, clashes between the Congolese army and rebel groups refusing to be integrated into the national army have forced more than 500,000 people to flee, according to the United Nations. Read More

Alert Newsletter - Spring 2008

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In the latest edition of Alert, read about MSF's responses to post-election violence in Kenya and conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. There are also stories on a disease causing blindness in AIDS patients in Southeast Asia and an MSF physician battling malaria in Sierra Leone. Plus read an excerpt from From Ethiopia to Chechnya: Reflections on Humanitarian Action (1988-1999), a collection of essays by one of the great figures of humanitarian action, François Jean.

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