"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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MSF has launched a website that provides free access to published research based on its medical work.
MSF International Activity Report
The current MSF International Activity Report in an annual summary of MSF activity in all the countries where we have been active in 2007, along with feature articles addressing some of the major concerns that have faced the humanitarian medical organisation. The Activity Report is featured on all the country pages on this site and is an essential part of MSF accountability to the general public. We will be featuring parts of the report on the front page in the coming weeks.
"The exact nature of any additional possible needs hasn't been determined yet," said said Filipe Ribeiro, MSF Emergency Program Coordinator. Discussions are continuing as to what assistance MSF can offer health care centers and other hospitals in South Ossetia.
In these past three months MSF has cared for 20,800 patients suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Most of these patients have been treated in one of of 51 ambulatory centres where they get a medical consultation and go home with weekly rations of therapeutic food.
Families are also given food support rations made up of a corn and soya blend with oil and sugar.
From the International Activity Report
No intervention can ever be described as 'perfect'. There will always be a system that might have been more effective, a process that might have been more efficient, a treatment that might have been more available.
No organisation can ever become truly accountable unless it accepts this reality - because it means there is always room for improvement and it is always worth striving for more.
A perilous journey: The obstacle to safe delivery for vulnerable women in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
For a pregnant woman living in the slum communities of Port-au- Prince in Haiti, each step she takes in her journey to give birth is fraught with life-threatening perils. An MSF briefing paper...
For a pregnant woman living in the slum communities of Port-au- Prince in Haiti, each step she takes in her journey to give birth is fraught with life-threatening perils. An MSF briefing paper...
