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On Tuesday, members of the 11-person Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team in earthquake-battered northeast Japan worked in evacuation centers with local medical staff in a small, isolated community in Miyagi prefecture.

“There were two local doctors in Minamisanriku who have been working in around 20 evacuation centers since the earthquake and tsunami, so team members today assisted them in their consultations,” said Emmanuel Goue, the emergency coordinator of the MSF team.

From Tuesday, MSF staff plan to start a small clinic in another town near Minamisanriku using drugs donated on Monday. Once additional medical resources from the massive Japanese relief effort arrive, MSF will try to find other pockets of communities that may need medical assistance.

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1980
War in Afghanistan
After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the final days of 1979, triggering a war that would last a decade, MSF medical teams clandestinely cross the Pakistani–Afghan border and travel by mule for several weeks to reach injured civilians living in remote areas.

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Photo: Afghanistan 1980 © MSF

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MSF staff at a Cholera Treatment Center in Port-au-Prince tends to a child who presented with symptoms of cholera. Learn more.

Haiti 2010 © Aurelie Baumel / MSF

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A mother and child take away nutrient-rich food supplements from an MSF/Forsani distribution site. Niger is again facing an important nutritional crisis this year: more than 1,500,000 children suffer from severe malnutrition this year in the country.

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