Editing Médecins Sans Frontières (section)

====Sierra Leone====
In the late 1990s, MSF missions were set up to treat tuberculosis and [[anemia|anaemia]] in residents of the [[Aral Sea]] area, and look after civilians affected by drug-resistant disease, famine, and epidemics of cholera and AIDS.<ref>MSF Article (1998) [http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=B82400AA-3B73-496F-9D84F6A326006642&method=full_html MSF 1998] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222618/http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=B82400AA-3B73-496F-9D84F6A326006642&method=full_html|date=27 September 2007}} MSF. Retrieved 16 January 2006.</ref> They vaccinated 3 million Nigerians against [[meningitis]] during an epidemic in 1996<ref>MSF Article (2000) [http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=71282BBA-EC70-11D4-B2010060084A6370&method=full_html Preventing meningitis] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930020359/http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=71282BBA-EC70-11D4-B2010060084A6370&method=full_html|date=30 September 2007}} MSF. Retrieved 16 January 2006.</ref> and denounced the [[Taliban treatment of women|Taliban's neglect of health care for women]] in 1997.<ref>MSF Article (1998) [http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=pressrelease&objectid=71283479-EC70-11D4-B2010060084A6370&method=full_html MSF and other aid organisations evicted from Kabul] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222453/http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=pressrelease&objectid=71283479-EC70-11D4-B2010060084A6370&method=full_html|date=27 September 2007}} MSF. Retrieved 16 January 2006.</ref> Arguably, the most significant country in which MSF set up field missions in the late 1990s was Sierra Leone, which was involved in a [[Sierra Leone Civil War|civil war]] at the time. In 1998, volunteers began assisting in surgeries in [[Freetown]] to help with an increasing number of [[Amputation|amputees]], and collecting statistics on civilians (men, women and children) being attacked by large groups of men claiming to represent [[ECOMOG]]. The groups of men were travelling between villages and systematically chopping off one or both of each resident's arms, raping women, gunning down families, razing houses, and forcing survivors to leave the area.<ref>MSF Article (1998) [http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=8127EF92-B5A9-11D4-B1FA0060084A6370&method=full_html Attacks as told by victims] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930020517/http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=8127EF92-B5A9-11D4-B1FA0060084A6370&method=full_html|date=30 September 2007}} MSF. Retrieved 16 January 2006.</ref> Long-term projects following the end of the civil war included psychological support and [[phantom limb]] pain management.<ref>MSF Article (2001) [http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=EC4F5038-C637-4724-87A848DAD8314054&method=full_html Controlling phantom limb pain in Sierra Leone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222513/http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=EC4F5038-C637-4724-87A848DAD8314054&method=full_html|date=27 September 2007}} MSF. Retrieved 16 January 2006.</ref>