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MSF India Newsletter
AUGUST 2019
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National Nutrition Week
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| What is Severe Acute Malnutrition? Is obesity also a form of malnutrition? Where does India stand on the nutrition index? We take a closer look at these and other related issues,
as India observes National Nutrition Week. |
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| Rohingya Refugee Crisis:
Two years on |
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| 25th August, 2019 marked a massive exodus of Rohingya people fleeing Myanmar. Two years on, more than 912,000 Rohingya refugees remain in crowded camps in Bangladesh. To date, no meaningful solutions have been offered to the Rohingya, who have been pushed to the margins of society in virtually all the countries they have fled to. |
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Manipur: Providing
patient-centered HIV, TB, and hepatitis care to patients |
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| Manipur has a high prevalence of HIV,
TB and hepatitis C with a high incidence of coinfection in the state. MSF, which is the only international NGO in Manipur, has put a patient-focused model of care at the heart of its operations in order to improve outcomes and minimise the spread of the diseases. |
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Mediterranean migration
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| Europe must act now to end preventable deaths in Libya and at sea.
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Access to
medicines
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| Gavi should stop awarding special funds to Pfizer and GSK for pneumonia vaccine. |
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Democratic Republic of Congo
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| 10 facts on Ebola outbreak
in DRC. |
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Tuberculosis
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Promising new tuberculosis drug pretomanid approved, but will it be
affordable? |
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Meet our Doctors Without Borders
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Anupama Rohidekar |
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is a gynaecologist from India and recently completed her first assignment in Taiz, Yemen. There she was working with our teams in MSF’s Taiz Houban mother and child hospital.
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| Murtuza Ghiya |
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a medical doctor from Bengaluru, India returned from Mosul, Iraq where he was working with the emergency response team.
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Ana-Maria Saldanha |
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a paediatrician from Goa, India returned after completing her second assignment with MSF in the Central African Republic where our teams provide medical care to people affected by conflict.
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Doctors Without Borders India / Medecins Sans Frontieres
AISF Building, First floor
Amar Colony, Lajpat Nagar-IV
New Delhi-110024
www.msfindia.in
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