MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières [to 18 July 2015]
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/press/press-releases
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Field news
Italy: MSF Rescue Ship Carrying Nearly 700 People Unable to Land in Sicily
July 17, 2015
Italian authorities have refused to allow a search and rescue ship operated by MSF to disembark almost 700 people in Sicily.
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Ebola: “We must finish the job”
July 17, 2015
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) began its response to the largest Ebola outbreak in history in March 2014 and, despite progress made in the fight against the virus, Ebola stubbornly lives on in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, where more than 27,678 people have been infected and 11,276 have died.
For the past eight weeks, the number of cases in the region has held at around 30 new infections per week, a number that would be considered a disaster in normal circumstances.
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Critical Situation in Niger as Hunger Gap and Malaria Period Approach
July 14, 2015
The already precarious situation of the population in southern Niger’s Diffa region has recently become further aggravated by the escalation of the ongoing armed conflict near the border with Nigeria. This area is facing new waves of displaced people and refugees fleeing violence raging around Lake Chad, which has intensified since last February, when the conflict arrived in Niger. The living conditions of the displaced population—with little access to health care and safe water—are dire.
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South Sudan: MSF Opens Cholera Treatment Center in Juba
July 13, 2015
In collaboration with local health authorities, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has opened a cholera treatment center (CTC) in Juba, South Sudan, in response to an outbreak of the disease declared by the Ministry of Health (MoH) on June 23.