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...
In Syria, obviously security was also on the top of the list of priorities to be looked after and I have to say I learned the hard way on a couple of things in this area. We had some unfortunate incidents where people came in with weapons.
More than 20,000 people are almost cut off from aid in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state after fleeing violence in the disputed border region with Sudan, warned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. Food and drinking water is in short supply and the people in the camps are living in...
Our field hospitals in Syria are ‘undercover’. Initially, we were running a hospital inside a cave then it was moved into a non functioning farm – a better location and we could adapt it to reduce the risk of shrapnel or mortar fire.
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...
As host to both AIDS conference and TPP trade talks this month, Malaysia reportedly vows to reject a TPP trade agreement that harms access to medicines; other countries should follow suit, and Malaysia should be held to its pledge Countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement...
MSF pricing analysis also extends to HIV diagnostic and monitoring tools The price of first- and second-line antiretrovirals (ARVs) to treat HIV are falling because of increased competition among generic producers, but newer ARVs continue to be priced astronomically high, according to the annual...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today welcomed new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for HIV treatment and called for the improvements to be rapidly implemented, enabling people and programme outcomes in developing countries to benefit. MSF also stressed that increased international support...
Yemen Although HIV is not a major epidemic in the country (prevalence is estimated at about 0.2 per cent of the population), people living with HIV face stigma and discrimination almost everywhere; and because of the lack of knowledge by the medical personnel, even in some health facilities. Since...
For many refugees from Syria, getting a roof over their heads and keeping their families fed is a massive struggle. On World Refugee Day, MSF warns that dire living conditions are affecting people's health. “After our house was destroyed in Syria eight months ago, we moved from one place to another...
