Meet Dr Liz Thomson, the new General Director of MSF South Africa

Dr Liz Thomson started working with MSF SA in April 2010 and has already spent three weeks in Burundi working as part of MSF’s response to a malaria epidemic as well as working in the maternal health program. Before she left Baikong Mamid, MSF SA Communications Officer, interviewed her.

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Article: Eye surgery camp with 'Right To Sight' returns vision to hundreds in Galcayo, Somalia

Eye problems, like many other health issues in Somalia, often go untreated. Internal conflict, a dilapidated healthcare system, and chronic poverty all take a serious toll on people’s ability to access healthcare. The situation is compounded by a lack of surgeons throughout the country as a whole, most of whom are concentrated in Mogadishu, around 730km from Galcayo.

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Video: Lives of vulnerabe migrants in South Africa

Thousands of migrants and refugees existing on the margins in South Africa lack access to proper health care and shelter. They face physical and verbal abuse, police harassment and xenophobic attacks. Proper legal status is often difficult to obtain, if not impossible. MSF is providing health care to these vulnerable people in Musina, a town on the border with Zimbabwe, and in Johannesburg.

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Video: HIV/AIDS treatment gap widening in Africa

Backtracking by international donors in funding HIV/AIDS risks undermining years of positive achievements and will cause many more unnecessary deaths, MSF warns in a new report, titled “No time to quit: HIV/AIDS treatment gap widening in Africa”.

“How can we give up the fight halfway and pretend that the crisis is over? Nine million people worldwide in need of urgent treatment still lack access to this lifesaving care - two thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa alone. There is a real risk that many of them will die within the next few years if necessary steps are not taken now,” says Dr. Mit Philips, Health Policy Analyst for MSF and one of the authors of the report.

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