Our medical teams often witness violence, atrocities, and neglect in the course of their work, much of which occurs in places that rarely receive international attention. The stories below represent our effort to bear witness to these crises on behalf of our patients.
December 29, 2012 – It is with great sadness that Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) remembers that one year has passed since our two colleagues, Philippe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhu (“Kace”), were brutally murdered in Mogadishu. Philippe, a 53-year-old emergency coordinator from Belgium, and Kace, a 44-year-old medical doctor from Indonesia, … Read more
Ahead of Verdict in Novartis Vs. India Supreme Court Case MUMBAI, 21 December 2012 – As the Supreme Court considers its verdict in the case of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis vs. the Indian government, people living with HIV, Sankalp Rehabilitation Trust, health groups and the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested outside … Read more
DECEMBER 20, 2012-Regardless of the parties or individuals responsible for the recent escalation of attacks against health workers in Pakistan, both patients and medical workers risk losing their lives while seeking or providing health care, the international organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. As a medical humanitarian organization working in … Read more
Despite important progress in research and development (R&D) for global health over the past decade, only a small fraction of new medicines developed between 2000 and 2011 were for the treatment of neglected diseases, highlighting the ‘fatal imbalance’ between global disease burden and drug development for some of the world’s most devastating illnesses, said Médecins … Read more
Paris, 12 December 2012 — Tens of thousands of people, many of them wounded, are trapped in the city of Deir Azzour, eastern Syria, due to intense fighting and aerial bombardments. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls for the sick and wounded to be evacuated to safer locations and for international medical teams to be given … Read more
07 December 2012 – The impact of violence in Central America and Mexico cannot be understated. Widespread violence and its dramatic medical consequences are threatening to become a humanitarian crisis, while health systems – already underfunded and short of medical staff – are unable to cope. The lack of adapted policies to respond to this … Read more
Three new issue briefs outlining Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s / Doctors Without Borders main concerns regarding the need for adapted vaccines, the need to bring vaccine prices down, and the need to address vaccine supply problems can be accessed at: msfaccess.org/briefings. MSF is deeply concerned that the current global vaccination strategy is not paying enough attention … Read more
4 December 2012 – Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders is completing distribution of Non Food Items (NFI) kits to communities impacted by recent violent clashes in Assam. Riots between two communities were first reported in July 2012 and soon flared into a major humanitarian crisis which left more than 90 people dead and over 400.000 … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders is completing distribution of Non Food Items (NFI) kits to communities impacted by recent violent clashes in Assam. Riots between two communities were first reported in July 2012 and soon flared into a major humanitarian crisis which left more than 90 people dead and over 400.000 displaced For months the … Read more