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MSF Refugees and IDPs Shelter.jpg |
© Raphaël Sourt/MSF |
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides primary health care in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region, where families that have fled the violence of Mogadishu now live in makeshift shelters at camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) (2007).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Refuge.jpg |
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In Afgooye, a former university campus west of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, an estimated 50,000 people have been seeking refuge among the local population. Here, displaced people gather for the distribution of safe drinking water (2007).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Flee.jpg |
© Alois Hug/MSF |
A displaced family has arrived in Birak, Chad, after fleeing a military offensive that forced 7,000 people from their homes (2008).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Water.jpg |
© Albert Viñas/MSF |
People displaced by violence fill jerrycans from a group water supply in Salamat, Chad (2007).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Distribution.jpg |
© MSF |
A camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sileah, Sudan, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) distributed plastic sheeting and blankets to new arrivals and offered medical assistance to the estimated 17,000 displaced people who gathered there after they were attacked in Muhajariya (2007).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Women.jpg |
© Avril Benoît/MSF |
Internally displaced women risk being subjected to violence when they leave Kalma displacement camp, in Darfur, Sudan, to collect straw and firewood (2008).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Emergency.jpg |
© Pascale Zintzen/MSF |
A camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo, where ongoing violent attacks have forced the population to flee repeatedly. Here, in Masisi district, MSF performs emergency surgeries, treats malnutrition, and provides consultations for malaria and respiratory and urinary infections (2008).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Kivu.jpg |
© Pascale Zintzen/MSF |
A camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Masisi, Democratic Republic of Congo, where 2,300 families have sought shelter after fleeing violent attacks throughout North Kivu province (2008).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs RUTF.jpg |
© Miljena Dukanovic/MSF |
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats a malnourished child with nutrient-rich, ready-to-use therapeutic food, in Nyanzale, Democratic Republic of Congo (2007).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Malnutrition.jpg |
© Miljena Dukanovic/MSF |
In Nyanzale, Democratic Republic of Congo, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats moderately malnourished children on an outpatient basis and admits severe cases to this therapeutic feeding center (2007).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Food.jpg |
© Henri Hannequin/MSF |
Hmong refugees confined to a camp in northern Thailand gather to receive the full-food rations that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides every two weeks to all people living there (2007).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Hmong.jpg |
© Daniela Abadi/MSF |
Ethnic Hmong refugees from Laos are currently confined to a camp controlled by the Thai military in Thailand’s northern Petchabun province. Once a day, Hmong refugee children are allowed to leave the camp to attend school (2008).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Hospital.jpg |
© Valerie Babize/MSF |
At a hospital in Suleymania, in Iraqi Kurdistan, a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team offers surgical care for civilian victims of the conflict who have sustained war wounds such as severe burns and orthopedic injuries (2008).
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MSF Refugees and IDPs Home.jpg |
© Adrian Ohrn Johansen |
To escape harassment, killings, detentions, and sometimes forced recruitment by armed groups, large numbers of people have flocked to Bogota, Colombia, in search of new homes, and many of them now live in cramped shacks on the outskirts with no electricity or clean drinking water (2007).
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