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MSF has handed over one of its largest projects for Somali refugees in Ethiopia. The number of refugees crossing the border has significantly gone down since the humanitarian crisis of last year. MSF initiated the project in Hiloweyn camp, one of the five refugee camps near to the border between Ethiopia and Somalia, in August 2011, at the height of the crisis.
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Forty-six thousand Malians have taken refuge in Burkina Faso since mid-January. Of that number, 35,000 are in Oudalan province alone, in the northern part of the country. In this desert area where aid is very limited, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing emergency medical aid in the refugee camps, where needs outstrip resources.
4-23 | MSF opens new HIV/AIDS clinic on India Myanmar border
Last week, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a new clinic in Moreh, a small rural town in Chandel district in the Indian state of Manipur that is on the border with Myanmar.
The specialised clinic offers free medical treatment and counselling for people living with HIV/AIDS and drug resistant tuberculosis.
4-20 | Since late January, some 57,000 Malians have entered the Mbera refugee camp in Mauritania. Refugee numbers are steadily increasing, from 200 arrivals on April 5 to 1,500 a day. In response to this massive influx, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is bolstering its activities and emergency medical aid in this desert area, where access to medical care is extremely limited.
3-15 | Tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan urgently need humanitarian aid to be scaled up in a short window of opportunity that is rapidly closing before the rainy season starts, warns the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since last November, 80,000 refugees from Sudan’s Blue Nile State have sought shelter in two camps located in a remote and barren region of South Sudan where humanitarians confront massive logistic challenges to access and assist refugees.