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====Sri Lanka==== MSF is involved in Sri Lanka, where a [[Sri Lankan civil war|26-year civil war]] ended in 2009 and MSF has adapted its activities there to continue its mission. For example, it helps with physical therapy for patients with spinal cord injuries.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Armstrong|first1=JC|last2=Nichols|first2=BE|last3=Wilson|first3=JM|last4=Cosico|first4=RA|last5=Shanks|first5=L|date=20 March 2014|title=Spinal cord injury in the emergency context: review of program outcomes of a spinal cord injury rehabilitation program in Sri Lanka.|journal=Conflict and Health|volume=8|issue=1|page=4|doi=10.1186/1752-1505-8-4|pmc=3994551|pmid=24650231 |doi-access=free }}</ref> It conducts counseling sessions, and has set up an "operating theatre for reconstructive orthopaedic surgery and supplied specialist surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses to operate on patients with complicated war-related injuries".<ref>{{Cite web|title=International Activity Report 2010|url=http://doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/ar/report.cfm?id=5320|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414175526/http://doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/ar/report.cfm?id=5320|archive-date=14 April 2013|access-date=2 October 2011}}</ref>
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