2003 Report: Niger | Doctors Without Borders

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Publications International Activity Report 2003 Niger MSF in Niger, 2003 MSF Activity Reports on Niger: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006/2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 Recent update: Treating Cholera Patients in Northern Niger All articles on Niger » International staff: 8 National staff: 70 MSF has responded to food and epidemic emergencies in Niger since 1985 Niger MSF responds to chronic food problems and epidemics in Niger. In 2002, MSF's therapeutic feeding center in Maradi took care of over 5,200 children; at the end of July 2003, 480 children were under treatment. In March 2003, a double epidemic of measles and meningitis broke out in the Maradi and Zinder regions of eastern Niger; from March to May, MSF vaccinated more than 125,000 children against measles and 290,000 people against meningitis. MSF also provided 300,000 measles and 450,000 meningitis vaccines, and a total of 10,000 curative treatments, for use by the Ministry of Health for a massive rural vaccination campaign. Recent updates on Niger: Treating Cholera Patients in Northern Niger All articles on Niger »	International Activity Report 2003 Humanitarian Medicine, One Person At a Time by Thomas Nierle, MD, Director of Operations, MSF-Switzerland Not So Benign: when lofty political goals have bad humanitarian consequences by Nicolas de Torrenté, General Director, MSF-United States The Year in Review Dr. Morten Rostrup President, MSF International Council Rafael Vilasanjuan MSF Secretary General Invisible: Do sick people with no money need to become rich before we see that we can keep them alive? by Jean-Hervé Bradol, MD, President, MSF-France Enough is Enough: Why Sexual Violence Demands a Humanitarian Response by Tine Dusauchoit, MD, General Director, MSF Operational Center Brussels MSF Projects 2003
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