MSF Helpline in India for Diabetes Management
July 1, 2022Diabetes Management The burden of diabetes is high and increasing globally, and in developing economies like India, mainly fuelled by the increasing prevalence of overweight/obesity and unhealthy lifestyles. Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for the majority of the cases, can...
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Cameroon
February 12, 2019Since 2011, violent attacks by armed opposition groups and the counterinsurgency operations of the Nigerian army have forced hundreds of thousands of people from northeast Nigeria to seek refuge in Cameroon, Chad and Niger. During the past two years, violence...
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Democratic Republic of Congo
February 1, 2018We respond to emergencies and assist people fleeing violence and armed conflict. In 2018, we responded to two Ebola outbreaks, in Equateur and North Kivu provinces respectively. We run some of our largest programmes in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
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Ivory Coast
February 1, 2018The political and military crises of 2002-2010 have taken a severe toll on the Ivorian health system: according to the World Health Organization, it is one of the weakest in Africa, with only one medical doctor and five midwives per...
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Chad
February 1, 2018Since 2015, thousands of people in the Lake Chad region have been forced to flee their homes as a result of violent clashes between armed groups and Chadian military forces. Between 2015 and 2018, we ran mobile clinics in the...
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Burundi
January 4, 2018In 2017, MSF continued to provide high-quality care, free of charge, to victims of trauma in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura. L’Arche Kigobe, a private facility, is one of two hospitals providing care for victims of trauma in Bujumbura, where rife political...
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