Rohit Malpani, director of policy and advocacy at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Access Campaign, provided witness testimony on June 27, 2013, during a U.S. Congressional hearing on India’s trade policies. The hearing comes several months after the Indian Supreme Court ruled against pharmaceutical company Novartis in its seven-year legal battle to be granted … Read more
Greece has become one of the main entry points for migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe in hopes of finding a better future. The already-limited response to the medical and humanitarian needs of these people has been adversely impacted by the financial crisis affecting the country. The Greek government has also increased its law … Read more
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 aid is reaching the … Read more
Geneva, 13 June 2013 – The World Health Organization has today issued interim guidance on the use of bedaquiline, the first new drug to treat tuberculosis in 50 years, which received accelerated approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) on 31 December 2012. Acknowledging the growing crisis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and the … Read more
June 7, 2013 Victorine and her family fled their home near Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), during four days of violent clashes in late May between the Congolese army and the M23 rebel group. She is now one of up to 5,000 people taking refuge in Sotraki Stadium, on the outskirts … Read more
Thousands of people left without healthcare after a coup d’etat in Central African Republic (CAR) are now receiving treatment from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Three months after the coup we are still scaling up our response. Our teams have opened a new emergency health project in Bossangoa – north of the capital, … Read more
In May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in collaboration with the South Sudanese Ministry of Health, stemmed a meningitis A outbreak and vaccinated over 130,000 people against the disease in South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, reinforcing its commitment to assisting the region’s population. Starting on May 15, MSF teams deployed in the northern city … Read more
Three months after a coup d’etat in the Central African Republic (CAR), Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to scale up activities in order to assist thousands of people who were left without access to basic health care or who had no access to care to begin with. MSF has opened a new emergency … Read more
More than 10,600 Syrian families who have fled their country have taken refuge in Tripoli, Lebanon’s second-largest city, located approximately 30 kilometers[about 19 miles] from the Syrian border. Its population includes 500,000 Lebanese citizens, Palestinian refugees living in the Baddawi and Nahr el-Bared camps, and, now, more than 42,000 Syrians who have sought refuge in … Read more
YANGON, MYANMAR/NEW YORK, MAY 28, 2013—Nearly a year after interethnic clashes broke out in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, government-imposed restrictions on Muslim communities are preventing tens of thousands of people from accessing health care and other basic services, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders said today. An estimated 140,000 displaced … Read more