"The situation is tragic and we are unable to provide the aid necessary to prevent the further deterioration of the situation."
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DRC: Amputation done after consultation via text messages
From the BBC Today Show, an interview with surgeon, David Nott, who undertook a major amputation while working in the DRC after getting consultation on the procedure via text messages with his colleagues in England. Find out more...
Public education on hygiene and prevention can be met with hostility. As the MSF car moved slowly through the neighborhoods and the Zimbabwean EHO staff tried to give their speeches through a loudspeaker, angry crowds gathered to shout: "How do you expect us to control cholera when there is no water?! Look at this sewage running here right next to us! Why don't you clean up the garbage in the streets?"
One of the nurses asked if I was glad to be leaving today and I thought for a moment and realized that I wasn't the least bit glad to go. There are many more stories to tell and the ones that I have told are ongoing. After I leave and after you stop reading these pages, these lives will change, evolve and hopefully get better.
In wealthy countries, paediatric HIV infection has nearly been eliminated through successful prevention of mother-to-child transmission, which is why HIV in children is almost entirely a problem of poor countries. Companies see little financial incentives in developing easier tests and newer drugs for children with HIV.
"Drug companies should pledge to come up with and test easy-to-use paediatric versions of all their HIV medicines or governments will need to pressure them to do this," said Dr Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Director of MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines.
Excerpt: In an emotional moment, an MSF doctor describes the conditions faced every day by medical staff as she remembers one patient.
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Pushed to its limit, MSF has recently been forced to make the painful decision to drastically reduce the number of new patients it can treat.
"It is unacceptable that a single NGO is treating the vast majority of HIV patients in a crisis of this magnitude. It is unacceptable because it is wholly inadequate," said MSF Operations Manager, Joe Belliveau.
The scene that meets the eye upon entering the "dark room" is beyond belief. Some 26 prisoners, crammed into a space of about three by four meters, can only be made out by squinting. A narrow horizontal window provides the sole source of light in the room. The prisoners at the back have to wave their hands to signal their existence.
Until recent years, cholera was relatively rare in urban areas of the country where treated, piped water and flush toilets exist in most homes. With the ongoing economic crisis and the constantly deteriorating living conditions, these urban areas are more and more affected.
We are looking for areas where the needs of the people are unmet and where MSF can be most effective and help those who need it most. Perhaps the hardest part of life for the refugees in the camps now is not knowing when and if they will be able to go home and knowing that they have few prospects for the future.
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CONDITION: CRITICAL - Voices from the war in eastern Democratic Republic Congo
MSF has launched the feature website Critical Condition, a year-long focus on the lives of the people living in the North and South Kivu provinces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where conflict has been ongoing for years.
The site launches with a short documentary film that includes a range of images recently taken by World Press Photos laureate, Cédric Gerbehaye.
Available in English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Italian, the website will be continually updated throughout the year.
MSF has launched the feature website Critical Condition, a year-long focus on the lives of the people living in the North and South Kivu provinces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where conflict has been ongoing for years. 
