Less than a year after the official end of the Ebola epidemic, the Guinean health system continues to struggle Conakry – The international humanitarian organisation Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is launching today a large-scale measles vaccination campaign in Conakry, together with of the Guinean ministry of Health. Since the beginning of the year, there have … Read more
Patent opposition aims to increase affordable access to hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir for millions Rome/Geneva, 27 March 2017 – The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has today filed a patent challenge on the hepatitis C drug sofosbuvir with the European Patent Office (EPO) in an effort to increase access … Read more
Barcelona, 23 March, 2017 – The incursion of military and political actors in the humanitarian field is putting the provision of humanitarian aid at risk in Mali. This is the main conclusion of a report published today by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which analyses the continuous and harmful instrumentalization of humanitarian aid in the … Read more
Companies and countries must take urgent action to increase access to these life-saving treatments Geneva – Only 4,800 people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in 2016 were treated with two newer and much more effective medicines, even though these have now been on the market for up to four years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) deplored … Read more
MSF and civil society urge Swiss negotiators not to undermine the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’ Geneva/New Delhi, 22 March 2017 – As intellectual property (IP) negotiators from India and the four countries from EFTA (European Free Trade Association) meet in New Delhi this week to resume talks, Doctor Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), International … Read more
Athens / Brussels – One year after the EU-Turkey Deal, the international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released today a report to expose the human costs of European policy failures in Greece and the Balkans. MSF calls on the EU and member state leaders to radically change their approach to migration and ensure … Read more
It has been one year since the humanitarian medical organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started providing life-saving health services at the General Rural Hospital of Thi As Sufal District in Ibb governorate. The General Rural Hospital of Thi As Sufal, locally known as Al-Kaida Hospital, is one of the numerous health facilities … Read more
Brussels/Belgrade – In recent months, MSF teams in Serbia have treated an increasing number of patients reporting widespread violence and cruel and degrading treatment allegedly perpetrated by Hungarian authorities at the Serbian/Hungarian border. The international medical and humanitarian organisation MSF calls on Hungarian authorities to investigate and take immediate action to stop these brutal practices. From January … Read more
Sana’a, – Six months after withdrawing its staff from northern Yemen following the bombing of its hospital in Abs, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has restarted work in Haydan district hospital, in Sa’ada governorate. Following the 15 August airstrike on Abs hospital which killed 19 people and injured 24 and in the wake of a row of attacks … Read more
Kobe, Japan/New Delhi – As 16 countries negotiating the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement meet next week in Kobe, Japan, for the seventeenth round of negotiations, international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is appealing to the Japanese and South Korean governments to withdraw harmful proposals that will restrict people’s access to … Read more