International pharmaceutical industries and governments are failing to develop and produce AIDS medicines and diagnostic tools suited to children, claimed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today at the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. However, the organisation reported getting good...
MSF at the Bangkok International AIDS conference Treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) is effective, even for patients at advanced stages of the disease living in resource-poor settings, according to new clinical data released by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF...
The latest cargo shipment will bring new medical and health facilities to the displaced in and around El Geneina MSF is continuing to increase its operations stocks and supplies in Sudan with a shipment of 66 tons of material that arrived in Nyalah and Khartoum on July 3 and 4. With the impending...
Kofi Annan and Colin Powell visit Darfur, Sudan this week United Nation Secretary-General Kofi Annan and US Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit Sudan and the war-torn western region Darfur this week. The Darfur region of Sudan is considered as the scene of today’s worst humanitarian crisis...
A recent survey conducted by MSF and the epidemiological research center Epicentre in the town of Mornay, West Darfur State, found that one in 20 people were killed in scorched earth attacks on 111 villages from September 2003 until February 2004. After surviving massacres carried out by pro-...
MSF refuses to reimburse a payment negotiated and paid by the Dutch government for the release of Arjan Erkel. Arjan Erkel, Head of Mission for MSF in Northern Caucasus, was kidnapped on August 12, 2002 in Dagestan and released on April 11, 2004 after 20 months in captivity. Soon after his release...
It is impossible for us to give any further details as we simply don't know anything more about what happened. Nor do we know who is behind the killings nor the motives. It is with great sadness that we have to confirm that 5 MSF staff were killed yesterday, travelling on the road between...
The threat of famine is looming in the Darfur region of western Sudan, according to a nutrition survey recently conducted by MSF. The threat of famine is looming in the Darfur region of western Sudan, according to a nutrition survey recently conducted by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The study...
