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Name : Designation : © MSF Planning to work in an unaccustomed and entirely new context with security concerns is definitely not the first thought for any doctor soon after completing three strenuous years in post graduation. I was interested, but at the same time was a bit hesitant, because of the varied challenges it … Read more
PARIS/NEW YORK December 30, 2013 – Despite the presence of international armed forces in the capital of Central African Republic (CAR), fighting, lynchings and violent attacks remain a daily occurrence in Bangui, where the situation appears to be out of control, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Since … Read more
Some 70,000 people fleeing fighting in Bor, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, have already arrived in the town of Awerial, in neighbouring Lakes State, seeking shelter, and thousands more are arriving each day. The area has nowhere near the capacity to absorb all the new arrivals, however. Living conditions are verging on the catastrophic, and … Read more
NEW YORK, January 26, 2013 – Amid growing insecurity in Syria’s Aleppo region, all parties to the conflict must respect patients, medical staff, and health facilities, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders said today. On January 24, a missile landed 800 meters from an MSF field hospital in the Aleppo … Read more
Two weeks after military operations began in northern Mali, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) continues to work in the regions of Mopti, Gao, and Timbuktu. In addition, on the morning of 24th January, a small MSF medical team managed to reach Konna, a town located 70 kilometeres north of Mopti, in the pivotal area … Read more
As tensions increase between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on all parties to avoid harming civilians who have fled in their thousands into the surrounding bush. The exact extent of the displacement is hard to quantify, but … Read more
This week, final hearings began in Chennai, India, in the appeal that German pharmaceutical company Bayer has filed against India’s first-ever compulsory licence (CL). In a related development, India is currently identifying other patented drugs on which CLs are needed. Bayer case The patent on the cancer drug sorafenib tosylate (marketed as Nexavar) was granted … Read more
BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, January 17, 2013—As bombings and combat continue in multiple locations in Mali, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties to the conflict to authorize humanitarian organizations to enter the area of Konna and to allow aid to be provided in all areas affected by fighting. MSF … Read more
Thousands of people fleeing violence have taken refuge in the bush, living without proper shelter or safe drinking water, in parts of the Central African Republic (CAR). Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing emergency care and negotiating for access to areas where medical staff have fled and healthcare is no longer available. As … Read more
At least 20 people were killed and 99 were injured when warplanes bombed a market in Azaz, northern Syria on 13th January, according to the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Twenty of the wounded, all of them civilians, were treated in an MSF medical facility. The attack on the market in … Read more