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RCEP trade agreement threatens access to affordable medicines for half the world’s population

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Background information (quotes follow):  As negotiators from 16 countries gather in Auckland, New Zealand, this week for the thirteenth round of negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade deal, Médecins Sans Frontières, along with other health organisations, appeals for the removal of harmful intellectual property provisions that could potentially raise treatment costs by … Read more

MSF: Governments at UN must address severe lack of HIV treatment access in West and Central Africa during High-Level Meeting

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Proposal to reach 30 million people with HIV treatment by 2020 is crucial, but urgent scale-up of treatment needed in low-coverage areas to close deadly treatment gaps New York, June 7 2016—Ahead of the UN High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS this week (8-10 June), the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) … Read more

MSF Scientific Day South Asia: Optimizing research for patient care

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New Delhi, May 28 2016: “Public health is an area where both the Indian government and non-governmental organisations are playing a vital role in pushing for better care for patients. Increasingly, effective models of patient care and operational research are coming out of such collaborations and MSF Scientific Day South Asia will attempt to throw … Read more

MSF scientific survey: 45% of Kashmiri population experiencing mental distress

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Integrated and decentralised prevention, care and treatment programme urgently needed Jammu and Kashmir: Nearly 1.8 million adults (45% of the population) in the Kashmir Valley show symptoms of significant mental distress according to a comprehensive mental health survey conducted by the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) between October and December 2015. … Read more

MSF to pull out of World Humanitarian Summit

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Last year, 75 hospitals managed or supported by international medical organisation Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were bombed. This was in violation of the most fundamental rules of war which gives protected status to medical facilities and its patients, regardless if the patients are civilians or wounded combatants. Beyond the hospitals, civilians … Read more

MSF treats hundreds after Greek-FYROM border violence Events are latest consequences of absurd humanitarian crisis created by Europe

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On 10th April, after the violent events at the border between Greece and FYROM, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams treated hundreds including around 40 people injured by rubber bullets. At least ten people have reported to MSF teams that they were beaten by FYROM police.  Two extra mobile medical teams were added to the normal … Read more