Access Campaign The Union World Conference on Lung Health was held in Paris. MSF urged for a new approach to developing and pricing new tuberculosis (TB) medicines, so that the global TB response can deliver the new treatment combinations needed to close the deadly treatment gap for drug-resistant...
Situation in some provinces remains precarious, aid organizations need to shift gears The situation in Ouham province, in northern Central African Republic (CAR), particularly around the towns of Bossangoa and Bouca, where a peak in violence has left tens of thousands of people to flee their homes...
Democratic Republic of Congo MSF has limited its medical activities in and around Mweso hospital in Dr Congo’s North Kivu province after a succession of incidents where staff was intimidated, patients threatened. MSF team is providing lifesaving activities in the hospital. Direct support and...
Increased humanitarian assistance urgently needed Tens of thousands of people have fled in a new wave of attacks and ruthless killings by armed groups and Government forces in north-western Central African Republic (CAR), the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)...
Access Campaign As Asia-Pacific leaders prepare to meet in Bali for the APEC Summit, where the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement trade deal will be high on the agenda, MSF urged governments not to make political trade-offs during trade negotiations that will harm access to affordable...
Central African Republic MSF denounces the targeting of civilian population in a new wave of violence erupted in Bouca, north of Bangui, in Central African Republic. MSF treated 26 people, injured either by machetes or gunshots, including eight women and six children. Democratic Republic of Congo...
26 patients treated with machete and gunshot wounds in Bouca by MSF teams The medical-humanitarian organisation MSF denounces the targeting of civilian population in a new wave of violence erupted in Bouca, 325 km. north of Bangui, in Central African Republic (CAR). MSF treated 26 people, injured...
Access Campaign As negotiations for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement moved to Malaysia, MSF urged negotiating countries to remove terms that could adversely affect access to affordable medicines by people from developing countries, choke off production of generic medicines, and constrain...
MSF calls on the international community to respond to urgent medical and humanitarian needs Three months after Seleka forces seized power in Central African Republic (CAR), the country is in the grip of a humanitarian emergency while the international community looks on with indifference, warned...
Central African Republic (CAR) MSF teams in Batangafo distributed essential items, including plastic sheeting, mosquito nets and blankets to more than five thousand people who were forced to flee their villages after they were burned down during heavy fighting with nomadic herdsmen coming from Chad...
