Nov 30 2011
This post on Medecins Sans Frontiere's (MSF) website describes the humanitarian organization's activities in Cameroon to address a 14-month-long cholera epidemic. MSF has provided oral rehydration solution, water purifying capabilities, and medical aid and assistance in Cameroon, and the organization is "preparing the end of its emergency response, in collaboration with the [local] health authorities," the article states (11/28).
This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente. |