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Outbreak of Nodding Syndrome SpreadsOutbreak of Nodding Syndrome Spreads
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:13:43 +0100 | Medscape Today Headlines
The condition has now been seen in South Sudan; CDC recommends ivermectin and antiepileptic therapy, as well as enhanced surveillance. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

Nodding Syndrome — South Sudan, 2011
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:16:22 +0100 | CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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Nodding syndrome - South Sudan, 2011.
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 | MMWR Morb Mortal Wkl...
Authors: Abstract In November 2010, the Ministry of Health of the proposed nation of South Sudan requested CDC assistance in investigating a recent increase and geographic clustering of an illness resulting in head nodding and seizures. The outbreak was suspected to be nodding syndrome, an unexplained neurologic condition characterized by episodes of repetitive dropping forward of the head, often accompanied by other seizure-like activity, such as convulsions or staring spells. The condition predominantly affects children aged 5-15 years and has been reported in South Sudan from the states of Western and Central Equatoria and in Northern Uganda and southern Tanzania. Because of visa and security concerns, CDC investigators did not travel to South Sudan until May 2011. On arrival,...

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:36:22 +0100 | Red Cross Chat
This Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up is courtesy of Scott Waggoner, from Cross Blog: Award-winning Red Cross news and views from Oregon and beyond Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work… SYRIA: Violence in Syria continues with one of the latest casualties being the secretary-general of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Dr. Abd-al-Razzaq Jbeiro. Dr. Jbeiro was shot in a vehicle clearly marked with the red crescent emblem after attending meetings at Syrian Arab Red Crescent headquarters in Damascus. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent, IFRC, and ICRC are renewing calls for an e...

DRC: Majority of People Living with HIV Denied Treatment
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:57:00 +0100 | MSF News
DRC 2011 © Robin Meldrum Michel Kongawi, head lab tech, prepares a CD4 test in the laboratory at Lubutu hospital, Maniema Province. KINSHASA, JANUARY 25, 2012 – The vast majority of people living with the ---- virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are deprived of lifesaving treatment, due to a withdrawal of international donor support and the lack of national prioritization of the crisis, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. The number of HIV-positive people in DRC is currently estimated at more than one million, 350,000 of whom could benefit from antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. However, only 44,000 people are currently receiving treatment, translating into a 1...

‘We tried to hide in the high grass but they heard my child crying’
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:27:00 +0100 | MSF News
One recurring characteristic of the attacks in Jonglei State, South Sudan during recent months is their extreme violence. A deeply worrisome pattern is emerging, where people and their scarce resources are deliberately targeted by all the armed groups in this intercommunal violence. These are some of the stories patients have been telling the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff providing care to people trying to survive the violence. Patient testimony of a 24-year-old woman who was shot in the leg and in the cheek in the attack on Lekwongole on Dec. 27, 2011. Her only daughter, three, was abducted. Our village was one of the first to be attacked.  Three women, including me, ran with our children – my own three-year-old daughter and two of their boys who are 10 and 11 years old....

Latest attacks in Jonglei State perpetuate a pattern of extreme violence
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:19:00 +0100 | MSF News
In the state of Jonglei in South Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of intercommunal fighting. Wounded patients are still arriving at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Pibor, three weeks after the violent attack on the town and outlying villages in Pibor County. Many were injured in the bush, where thousands have remained, afraid to come out of hiding. MSF medical teams are now treating serious wound infections, some several weeks old. Since re-launching emergency medical activities in Pibor on Jan. 7, MSF has treated 47 patients with gunshot wounds – 16 women and eight children. A further 43 patients have so far been treated for stab wounds, beatings or wounds sustained while fleeing in the bush. South Sudan © Heather Whelan/MSFAn MSF nurse takes a baby’s ...

"Even Running Away Is Not Enough": Attacks in Jonglei, South Sudan, Perpetuate Extreme Violence
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:07:00 +0100 | MSF News
South Sudan 2012 © Heather Whelan/MSF An MSF doctor examines a baby in Pibor, in Jonglei State in South Sudan, where people who went into hiding following recent attacks continue to come in for urgently needed medical care at MSF's re-opened facilities. "Our team here in Pibor was evacuated on 23 December ..."   var flashvars = {}; flashvars.file = "http://av.doctorswithoutborders.org/av/2012/Karel-Janssens-Pibor-23-Jan-12.mp3"; var params = {}; params.wmode = "transparent"; params.allowfullscreen = "true"; params.allowscriptaccess = "always"; var attributes = {}; attributes.id = "myFlashPlayer"; swfobject.embedSWF("/includes/players/mediaplayer.swf", "player", "200", "20", "10.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes); January 23, 2012...

South Sudan: patient testimonies
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:55:48 +0100 | MSF News
People fleeing inter-communal conflict in Pibor, South Sudan have experienced extreme violence. They share their testimonies with MSF staff who are treating the wounded. (Source: MSF News)