NEW YORK / PARIS, JANUARY 22, 2015 – A hospital operated by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was directly targeted in an aerial bombing in Sudan on January 20, forcing the suspension of medical activities, MSF announced today. The hospital, located in the Nuba Mountains village of … Read more
—New intellectual property ‘think tank’ draft policy already showing alarming trend— New Delhi —Ahead of US President Obama’s visit to India, the international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) expressed deep concern over the US government’s heightened efforts to undermine access to affordable medicines from India—often called the ‘pharmacy of the developing … Read more
Julien Lefèvre is deputy field coordinator in Nsanje, Malawi. He has returned from a reconnaissance mission in helicopter in the South of Malawi most affected by floods, and assessed the dozen of evacuation centers set up in the district. You’ve surveyed the area by air. What does it look like? The large plains have been transformed … Read more
Tens of thousands of people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state are able to access basic healthcare and emergency referral from medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for the first time in over nine months. Following instructions to MSF Holland to stop last February, these primary health clinics restarted on 17th December … Read more
The Indian Patent Controller has today rejected one of Gilead’s key patent applications which covered the drug sofosbuvir, used to treat hepatitis C (HCV). The oral drug, which first received regulatory approval in the US in November 2013, and has been priced by Gilead at US$84,000 for a treatment course, or $1,000 per pill in … Read more
In the wake of a major attack carried out by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram on the town of Baga, in northern Nigeria, a team from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is assisting survivors who have fled to the city of Maiduguri. More than 2,000 people are believed to have been killed in the attack … Read more
Between May 2013 and November 2014, the Nigerian government declared a state of emergency in three of its northeast States in a bid to combat militant Islamist movement Boko Haram. MSF has been working in Borno State since August 2014.Isabelle Mouniaman-Nara, MSF’s programme manager in Nigeria, tells us what MSF has achieved in the country … Read more
Five years have passed since a truly devastating earthquake shook Haiti, affecting approximately 3 million and killing 220,000 according to government estimates. What is the situation in Haiti now after five years of reconstruction efforts, and what healthcare does Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) still provide in the country? MSF’s Haiti Country … Read more
On 12 December the Indian Supreme Court rejected Bayer’s appeal to block production and sales of a lower-cost version of its exorbitantly expensive cancer medication, sorafenib tosylate (marketed as Nexavar). Since 2012, the Indian generic company Natco has been allowed to produce an affordable generic version of Bayer’s cancer drug, which at US$5,500 per person, … Read more
Mumbai, December 12: The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will be organising a three-day interactive exhibition at the Inorbit Mall in Malad from December 12 to December 14. The exhibition, part of the “Who Cares?”, MSF’s visibility campaign on pressing medical crises around the world and medical humanitarianism … Read more