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MSF Applauds New WHO Recommendations for Accelerating HIV Treatment in Developing Countries

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KUALA LUMPUR/NEW YORK, JUNE 30, 2013—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today welcomed new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for HIV treatment and called for the improvements to be rapidly implemented, enabling people and programs in developing countries to benefit. MSF also stressed that increased international support will be needed. … Read more

MSF India launched its who cares campaign

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), with celebrated citizens Anurag Kashyap & Farooq Sheikh, campaigns to build awareness of medical humanitarian issues New Delhi, 2 July 2013 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international medical humanitarian organisation, rolls out its “Who cares?” campaign at Alliance Française de Delhi on July 2 to engage the … Read more

India must address stock-out of tuberculosis drugs

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New Delhi, 17 June 2013 – The Indian government must urgently address the persistent issues and almost routine delays of procuring drugs to treat tuberculosis, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. The issues are behind a worrying stock out of TB drugs which the country is currently experiencing. “As a country … Read more

South Sudan: 120,000 People Cut Off From Aid

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JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN, JUNE 13, 2013—An estimated 120,000 people have fled fighting in and around the main towns in Pibor County in South Sudan’s Jonglei state and are now hiding in unsafe and malaria-infested swamps without access to safe drinking water, food, or medical care, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières … Read more

Chad: Urgent Need For Aid To 50,000 Displaced By Darfur Violence

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TISSI, CHAD/NEW YORK, APRIL 26, 2013—Violent clashes in Sudan’s Darfur region have driven approximately 50,000 people across the border into southeastern Chad since early March, where a lack of food, water, shelter, and basic services is developing into a humanitarian crisis, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. In … Read more

Speech Delivered to the UN Donor Conference – Syria on June 7

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Mego Terzian, President, MSF-France Six months after the first international donor conference for Syria, humanitarian aid is failing. Security and living conditions have deteriorated dramatically. The population living in areas controlled by opposition groups have almost no access to official international aid. Across the country, there are enclaves surrounded by intense fighting, where virtually no … Read more

MSF Open Letter: Words Must be Turned into Humanitarian Action for Syrians

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Please see the following open letter from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as the United Nations convenes in Geneva on June 7 to launch a regional response plan for Syrian refugees and a humanitarian assistance plan for Syria. NEW YORK, JUNE 5, 2013—After more than two years of raging conflict in Syria, humanitarian assistance … Read more

Jordan: International Aid Urgently Needed For Syrian Refugees

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 NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2013—Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan are living under increasingly precarious conditions and Jordanian authorities are unable to provide them with adequate water and health care, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Increased international aid is urgently needed so that Jordan can … Read more

Jordan: International Aid Urgently Needed For Syrian Refugees

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 NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2013—Hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees in Jordan are living under increasingly precarious conditions and Jordanian authorities are unable to provide them with adequate water and health care, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today. Increased international aid is urgently needed so that Jordan can … Read more

South Sudan: MSF Hospital Severely Damaged in Intentional Attack

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BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, May 16, 2013—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today strongly condemned the deliberate damage and looting of its hospital in Pibor town, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, which has left tens of thousands of people without access to essential medical care. The hospital’s infrastructure was systematically damaged May … Read more