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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
Name : Designation : Noma is an overlooked but dangerous disease that can leave often young patients disfigured. Hafiz, a surgeon from India, shares his experience of providing life-changing reconstructive surgery in Nigeria… I had only a faint memory of the name of the disease I had heard during my medical schooling. Noma? Cancrum Oris? … Read more
Just over a month after Cyclone Idai devastated central Mozambique, Cyclone Kenneth hit the coast of Cabo Delgado province, in the country’s north, on Thursday evening 25 April. Several towns and communities are heavily damaged. It continues to rain, and there are large areas that are flooded or are at risk of flooding. “Matemo Island … Read more
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
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 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
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
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
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
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