Dr. Joanne Liu’s Speech: United Nations Member States Briefing on the Ebola outbreak

United Nations Member States Briefing on the Ebola outbreak and Response in West Africa Geneva, 16 September 2014   Remarks by Dr. Joanne Liu International President Médecins Sans Frontières   Ms. Under Secretary General, Mr. Special Coordinator, Mr. Assistant Director General, Distinguished Delegates, ladies and gentlemen.  Two weeks ago, I made an urgent appeal to … Read more

Iran: Flash floods have caused huge damage, washing away houses, roads and bridges

Heavy rains have caused severe flooding across Iran in recent weeks, leaving towns and villages underwater and damaging homes, crops and infrastructure. The rains began on 19 March in the northeastern province of Golestan, bordering Turkmenistan, and a week later inundated the southwestern provinces of Lorestan and Khuseztan, bordering Iraq. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières … Read more

MSF: U.S. Special 301 report undermines efforts to lower medicine prices globally

On the eve of World Intellectual Property Day, the United States Trade Representative released its annual “Special 301 Report.” Developing countries like India and Malaysia once again face unfair pressure from the US government over the measures these countries have taken to try to protect access to medicines. The Special 301 report is an annual … Read more

MSF: Johnson & Johnson should make TB drug available for all at $1/day

MSF protests at Johnson & Johnson’s annual shareholders’ meeting to demand a say in how lifesaving tuberculosis drug developed with considerable joint efforts, including public funding and MSF operational research, will be made available and affordable. New Brunswick, New Jersey – At the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) annual shareholders meeting today, the international medical humanitarian … Read more

Libya: Time running out for evacuations of trapped refugees in Tripoli amid shooting

Refugees and migrants in Tripoli’s Qasr Bin Gashir detention centre were shot at and injured, according to evidence reviewed by medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). With MSF and other humanitarian agencies warning of the dangers for the some 3,000 migrants and refugees locked up in detention centres in Tripoli and the … Read more

Greece: EU-Turkey deal continues cycle of containment and despair

Athens/Geneva – Today, on the third anniversary of the signing of the EU-Turkey deal, international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on European leaders to take action to end the harmful policy of containment on the Greek island ‘hotspots’, as well as to ensure the immediate evacuation of all vulnerable people, especially children, … Read more

Ethiopia: Alarming rates of malnutrition among displaced people in southern Ethiopia

Addis Ababa/Nairobi – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched an emergency intervention in the Gedeo area of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR), and is calling on humanitarian agencies in Ethiopia to urgently scale up their support for the internally displaced people (IDPs) in the numerous camps in the area. MSF is concerned … Read more

Access to medicines: Humanitarian mechanism for vaccines used for first time in Europe to counter high prices

Medical humanitarian organisation uses programme to access affordable versions of pneumonia vaccine to protect refugee children in Greece against the number one childhood killer worldwide Athens, Greece – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has started vaccinating refugee children on the Greek islands of Chios, Samos and Lesvos using a programme set up to allow … Read more