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- Pakistan Emergency
Doctors of the World (MdM) continues working with affected populations and opens a centre to treat diarrhoeal diseases in Kohat, in the north-west of the country.
- Health Situation in Gaza Doctors of the World Calls for the Immediate Lifting of the Blockade
Doctors of the World is shocked by the violence that characterised the boarding of the flotilla in the Mediterranean sea on its way to the Gaza Strip on 31st May and deplores the resulting loss of human life.
- Fighting in the Jebel Mara: 100 000 civilians deprived of access to healthcare
Following the attack that has just been launched today against the town of Deribat and the fighting that has raged for several days in the Jebel Mara, Médecins du Monde has been forced to suspend its activities
- Epidémie de choléra au Zimbabwe : Action d'urgence dans le district de Chipinge
23 décembre 2008 - Face à l’épidémie de choléra qui aurait déjà fait près de 1 200 morts, Médecins du Monde a renforcé son équipe locale avec l’arrivée d’une équipe d’urgence à Chipinge. L’association est en charge de la coordination médicale de tout le district de Chipinge, qui compte 300 000 habitants .
- MDM’s photographer attacked and now denied the right to photograph
Athens, September 8th, 2008. After the attack, the beating-up and the arrest of the French photographer, Olivier Jobard, by the Patras Port Authorities in July, where he was in a MDM mission to photograph undocumented immigrants, the recent refusal from the Government’s General Secretariat of Information to authorise him to continue his photographic mission in our country attempts to “silence” Médecins du Monde’s work on this vulnerable group.
- Burma : Médecins du Monde freight arrives in Rangoon
12 May 2008 - A plane chartered on Saturday from Bordeaux by Médecins du Monde arrived in Rangoon this morning with 22 tonnes of medical and logistical equipment.
- Burma Emergency : Médecins du Monde sends medical reinforcements and charters a plane to Rangoon
9 May 2008 - Following the violent cyclone in Burma, Médecins du Monde immediately redeployed its teams to provide emergency care to the population of Rangoon and the surrounding area. Today, Médecins du Monde has received autorisation to send a back-up medical team and to charter a plane loaded with equipment and medicines.
- kenya : Médecins du Monde has launched an emergency mission for the persons internally displaced by post-election violence
February 13, 2008 - Médecins du Monde has launched this week an emergency mission in the Rift Valley to ensure the provision of healthcare for the displaced population who remains out of reach for the humanitarian aid until now.
- YEMEN : IMPROVING MEDICAL CARE FOR RURAL POPULATIONS
21 February 2008 - Following eight months of training health staff in Bani Kayes district, on 18 February Médecins du Monde began distributing medical supplies to seven healthcare units in the district. Between 18 and 20 February, MdM provided training on epidemiological surveillance systems for the district health staff.
- Sumatra, Indonesia: MdM & ACF working in partnership to help earthquake victims
After the earthquake on 6 March 2007 which affected the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Médecins du Monde and Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) responded by working together in the disaster-stricken area.
