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MSF slams US on Gaza at UN, says children as young as 5 want to die

MSF slams US on Gaza at UN, says children as young as 5 want to die

THE head of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) told the United Nations Security Council that medical teams in the Gaza Strip have come up with a new acronym: WCNSF - wounded child, no surviving family. "Children who do survive this war will not only bear the visible wounds of traumatic injuries but the invisible ones too," MSF International Secretary General Christopher Lockyear told the 15-member council. "There is a repeated displacement, constant fear and witnessing family members literally dismembered before their eyes," he said. "These psychological injuries have led children as young as five to tell us that they…
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Measles resurgent in Congo eight months after epidemic declared over

Measles resurgent in Congo eight months after epidemic declared over

HEREWARD HOLLAND A new measles outbreak has flared up in the Democratic Republic of Congo just eight months after authorities declared an end to the worst known outbreak in the country's history, medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said. More than 13,000 cases of measles have been recorded in the country since Jan 1., the medical charity said, despite vaccination campaigns that have targeted millions of children across the country's remote jungle areas in the last two years. The vaccine drive greatly reduced the number of patients, but failed to cut the chain of transmission, MSF said in a statement…
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