RABAT, MOROCCO/ MADRID/NEW YORK, MARCH 14, 2013—Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa are suffering a sharp increase in violence at the hands of security forces in Morocco and at border areas, resulting in serious health problems, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. A report released today by MSF, Trapped at the … Read more
DNP+, MSF urge India to reject EU demands before April deadline, protest at European Commission in Delhi New Delhi, 13 March 2013 – Pressure is mounting on India to quickly sign off on a free trade agreement which still contains provisions that will harm people’s access to medicines in India and across the developing world, … Read more
MUMBAI: Patent regulatory authority, the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB), on Monday upheld the country’s first compulsory licence issued to Hyderabad based Natco Pharma on Bayer’s cancer drug Nexavar, setting an important legal precedent and paving the way for more generic companies to challenge patents. “Affordability” and “access” are said to be the major reasons … Read more
Nearly 2,000 People Living with HIV Rally in Streets of Delhi as EU-India Summit Starts New Delhi, February 10, 2012—As India and the European Union (EU) meet for a summit in New Delhi today to iron out the differences over a free trade agreement (FTA), nearly two thousand people living with HIV and the international … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has been given the honor in lieu of its services for the contributions in providing accessible healthcare to those in need The global humanitarian organization, Rotary International has presented its World Community Excellence award to the International Medical Organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without … Read more
Some 70,000 people fleeing fighting in Bor, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, have already arrived in the town of Awerial, in neighbouring Lakes State, seeking shelter, and thousands more are arriving each day. The area has nowhere near the capacity to absorb all the new arrivals, however. Living conditions are verging on the catastrophic, and … Read more
NEW YORK, January 26, 2013 – Amid growing insecurity in Syria’s Aleppo region, all parties to the conflict must respect patients, medical staff, and health facilities, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders said today. On January 24, a missile landed 800 meters from an MSF field hospital in the Aleppo … Read more
Two weeks after military operations began in northern Mali, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) continues to work in the regions of Mopti, Gao, and Timbuktu. In addition, on the morning of 24th January, a small MSF medical team managed to reach Konna, a town located 70 kilometeres north of Mopti, in the pivotal area … Read more
As tensions increase between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on all parties to avoid harming civilians who have fled in their thousands into the surrounding bush. The exact extent of the displacement is hard to quantify, but … Read more
This week, final hearings began in Chennai, India, in the appeal that German pharmaceutical company Bayer has filed against India’s first-ever compulsory licence (CL). In a related development, India is currently identifying other patented drugs on which CLs are needed. Bayer case The patent on the cancer drug sorafenib tosylate (marketed as Nexavar) was granted … Read more