After a Week of Intense Fighting in Somalia For the past week, the international humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has treated approximately 250 people wounded in the ongoing fighting in Somalia. Following a serious incident in an MSF medical facility in Dinsor, Somalia on...
"The logistical challenges were awesome" -- Interview with Ewald Stals, Operational Manager Two years after the Indian ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 MSF is bringing to a close its remaining projects in the affected regions. While MSF's emergency relief in Sri Lanka, India and Thailand stopped...
"The violence continues, the population continues to move and the vital needs increasing. Protection and assistance are already virtually non-existent." The main aid organisations have drastically reduced their programmes in eastern Chad. It is the Sudanese refugees from Darfur who will suffer from...
Thailand yesterday for the first time announced it will issue a compulsory licence for a key HIV/AIDS medicine Thailand yesterday for the first time announced it will issue a compulsory licence for use by the government to improve access to a key HIV/AIDS medicine, efavirenz. The international...
Being HIV-positive doesn't have to be a death sentence. The vast majority of patients who receive antiretroviral (ARV) treatment can live in relative health and lead fulfilling and positive lives. MSF gave cameras to patients living with HIV/AIDS in eight countries. Through the camera, they can...
Newer Aids drugs unaffordable and unavailable Tomorrow (1 December) is World AIDS Day. AIDS treatment in the developing world will not be sustainable unless international institutions get serious about the high cost of newer medicines, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins...
MSF concerned about the fate of 5,000 displaced persons and 37 staff members who are missing as violence intensifies and spreads throughout the region The town of Koloye, in eastern Chad close to the Sudanese border, was attacked on November 15, looted and emptied of inhabitants, according to the...
Countries must make more use of TRIPS flexibilities Drug prices are on the rise five years after the historic signing of the Doha Declaration on TRIPS (Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and Public Health at the 2001 World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial meeting in Doha,...
An opinion piece of MSF International President Dr. Rowan Gillies. This opinion piece was first published, in Arabic, in "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat". I returned to Darfur this October, having worked there in July 2004 when few aid agencies were operational and there was a crisis requiring a massive and...
