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...
Several key policy changes are urgently needed at the GAVI Alliance to help reduce the number of children not benefitting from vaccination globally (22.6 million in 2012), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said ahead of GAVI’s progress review meeting in Stockholm. “We fully support GAVI’s mission of...
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...
130,000 people have fled the district of Al Safira, in Aleppo province, which has been under violent attack since 8th October. There is currently insufficient humanitarian aid to meet the massive, and growing, needs of these displaced people. Fighting, shelling and aerial attacks have left 76 dead...
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)...
The massive political mobilisation seen around the issue of chemical weapons in Syria, reemphasised by the award last Friday of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), must immediately be applied to humanitarian access, the aid organisation Médecins...
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...
As a delegation of European and Italian leaders visits the Sicilian island of Lampedusa to honour all those who tragically lost their lives trying to reach the European coast, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on members of the European Union to recognise the human cost of their repressive...
