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Athens, September 8th, 2008. After the attack, the beating-up and the arrest of the French photographer, Olivier Jobard, by the Patras Port Authorities in July, where he was in a MDM mission to photograph undocumented immigrants, the recent refusal from the Government’s General Secretariat of Information to authorise him to continue his photographic mission in our country attempts to “silence” Médecins du Monde’s work on this vulnerable group.

12 May 2008 - A plane chartered on Saturday from Bordeaux by Médecins du Monde arrived in Rangoon this morning with 22 tonnes of medical and logistical equipment.

9 May 2008 - Following the violent cyclone in Burma, Médecins du Monde immediately redeployed its teams to provide emergency care to the population of Rangoon and the surrounding area. Today, Médecins du Monde has received autorisation to send a back-up medical team and to charter a plane loaded with equipment and medicines.

February 13, 2008 - Médecins du Monde has launched this week an emergency mission in the Rift Valley to ensure the provision of healthcare for the displaced population who remains out of reach for the humanitarian aid until now.

21 February 2008 - Following eight months of training health staff in Bani Kayes district, on 18 February Médecins du Monde began distributing medical supplies to seven healthcare units in the district. Between 18 and 20 February, MdM provided training on epidemiological surveillance systems for the district health staff.

After the earthquake on 6 March 2007 which affected the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Médecins du Monde and Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) responded by working together in the disaster-stricken area.

Following the torrential rain which has brought disaster to hundreds of thousands of people in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, Médecins du Monde has set up an emergency mission there.

One year after the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as President of Liberia, and at a time where the international community is on the verge of disengaging from the country...

NGOs join together to call on European governments to redouble efforts to improve health in poor countries
Deaths of children and mothers continue despite governments'pledge to meet the Millennium Development Goals
New European advocacy network supported by $10.7m grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

For more than two years, Médecins du Monde has been present in Darfur assisting the displaced population in the camp of Kalma (South Darfur) and Zam Zam (North Darfur).

The "Health and Migrations in the EU" conference will be held in Lisbon on 27and 28 September 2007 under the auspices of the Portuguese presidency. It will bring together health ministers from across the European Union, each of whom will be presented with a set of 25 “best practices” in the field of migration and health care. Featured among them will be the European study performed by Médecins du Monde on access to health care for undocumented migrants.

In 2005, the international network of MdM implemented 49 HIV/AIDS programs in 30 countries. The
majority in Africa (29 projects), followed by Asia (10 projects), Central America and the Caribbean (6
projects) and Central and Eastern Europe (4 projects).