Annual Report 2005 - Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without borders/MÉdecins sans frontiÈres (MSF)© Roger Lemoyne1,700In response to an upsurge in violence in Portau-Prince,the capital of Haiti, MSF opened asurgical trauma center there. During 2005,MSF surgeons treated more than 1,700people—half of them women, children, orelderly—for violence-related injuries.March 7 March 24MaRch 26MSF reports that it has treated more than 500 womenand girls who were raped over a six-month period in theSouth Darfur and West Darfur states of Sudan.MSF launches an emergency intervention in Angolato control an epidemic outbreak of Marburg disease,a deadly hemorrhagic fever.The New York Times publishes an MSF op-ed on TB:“In an age of unparalleled medical advances, we mustrefuse to accept that millions of people will be left toperish at the hands of this antique disease.”