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A Doctor Returns to Somaliland
After 20 years outside the country, Dr. Sohur Mire came back to Somaliland to work with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Somaliland is a nominally autonomous region of northern Somalia. At 68,000 square miles it’s about the size of England and Wales, or the state of Oklahoma in the US, with a population of around 3.5 million. Decades of war and food shortages have left the area poor and insecure, although it has escaped the worst of recent violence in Somalia to the south. MSF’s history here goes back to the 1980s; today, teams run two hospitals in the towns of Burco and Ceerigabo.
A girl selling food along the Congo River in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of Congo, listens to an MSF health promoter explain that a cholera epidemic is spreading along the river and has caused outbreaks in many of the towns on its banks. He explained how to avoid getting cholera, the symptoms to watch for, and what to do if you have it. Hear more
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MSF’s 100th Podcast- Giving the Right Foods in a Nutrition Crisis
In Turkana, northwestern Kenya, MSF is now able to distribute supplementary nutrient-rich food, which will prevent children from becoming malnourished.
In the world’s newest country, three out of four people have no access to basic health care. Women and children bear the brunt of this neglect: many women do not survive pregnancy or childbirth, and children die from preventable diseases and malnutrition.
MSF Frontline Reports Podcast, Ep. 93 - One of the Largest Refugee Camps in the World is Full
Somali refugees escaping the conflict in their country continue to arrive en masse in Dadaab, Kenya. The three camps are now home to close to four times the number of people they were built for; collectively, they form one of the largest refugee camps in the word. And yet newly arrived families can no longer get inside.
MSF Frontline Reports Podcast Ep. 92: Outside Humanitarian Spotlight, CAR Is Dogged by Conflict
In Central African Republic, one million people are estimated to be affected by the ongoing violence. Particularly since 2008, families have been repeatedly displaced from their villages, forced to flee into the bush, where they remain trapped and unable to return to their homes, with little access any medical care.
MSF Frontline Reports podcast, Ep. 91: HIV Treatment is Also HIV Prevention
New research has proved conclusively that treatment of HIV can reduce the transmission of the disease from one person to another by 96 percent. In other words, HIV treatment is also HIV prevention. The UN Summit on HIV/AIDS starts on June 8 and officials will decide on a blueprint for the next decade of the global response to the epidemic. Will global leaders act now to save millions of lives and prevent millions of new infections?
MSF Frontline Report podcast, Ep. 90: Sudan: Thousands Displaced After Clashes in Abyei Region
Chronic violence and neglect in parts of northeastern Uganda’s Karamoja region means 70 percent of the population has no access to any kind of health care. This affects women the most - maternal mortality rates here are 75 percent higher than the national average. MSF goals in Karamoja’s Kaabong district are to strengthen government health services and to reach people who otherwise can’t get to health facilities.
MSF is responding to the intensifying post-election violence. Insecurity due to the fighting and international sanctions on Ivory Coast have driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and severely hindered access to essential services—including health care.
MSF works in the inner-city slums of Johannesburg, the destination point for many survival migrants seeking opportunity, transit, or simply to hide among Joburg’s millions of inhabitants. But finding safe shelter here is extremely challenging.
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Treating survivors of domestic and sexual violence in PNG - MSF Weekly Podcast
In Papua New Guinea, 70 percent of women say they’ve been physically abused by their husbands, and in some parts of the country that number reaches 100 percent, according to the PNG Law Reform Commission. When this kind of violence is so widespread, what kind of a difference can a small MSF project make?
MSF’s Kashmir radio soap opera - MSF Weekly Podcast
“Alaw Baya Alaw” - Kashmiri for “Hello Brother, Hello” - has been on the air in the Kashmir Valley since 2005. Its purpose is to raise awareness of mental health issues in an entertaining way.
In Kashmir, mental health care during a surge of violence - MSF Weekly Podcast
The Kashmir Valley has been in the midst of increasing civil unrest since June. Violent, deadly clashes between protestors and security forces have led to strict 24-hour curfews and an even more pronounced military presence on the streets, the combination of which has kept people from accessing much-needed mental health care. MSF has been providing psychological care in Kashmir since 2002 and since June the team has had to adjust its strategy to in order to reach those who need help the most.
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