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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2004;292:323.

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"Dire health consequences" are likely for vast numbers of people in the Darfur region of western Sudan unless the current international response to the problem is drastically expanded, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned last month (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/2004/pr37/en/). More than 1.2 million people, displaced from their villages and homes by civil conflict, face malnutrition and disease outbreaks, according to the WHO.

The United Nations (UN), donor countries, and aid agencies met in early June and called for $236 million to help an estimated 2.2 million people affected by the conflict. Participants agreed on a series of relief targets over the next 90 days, including feeding up to 1 million people in Darfur and providing basic drugs; providing health care services for 900 000; providing water pumps, boreholes, and water tanks in camps; and helping refugees who fled to Chad build temporary shelters.

Although agencies were making some . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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