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
BRUSSELS/NEW YORK, January 17, 2013—As bombings and combat continue in multiple locations in Mali, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all parties to the conflict to authorize humanitarian organizations to enter the area of Konna and to allow aid to be provided in all areas affected by fighting. MSF … Read more
Thousands of people fleeing violence have taken refuge in the bush, living without proper shelter or safe drinking water, in parts of the Central African Republic (CAR). Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is providing emergency care and negotiating for access to areas where medical staff have fled and healthcare is no longer available. As … Read more
At least 20 people were killed and 99 were injured when warplanes bombed a market in Azaz, northern Syria on 13th January, according to the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Twenty of the wounded, all of them civilians, were treated in an MSF medical facility. The attack on the market in … Read more
NAIROBI, KENYA, JANUARY 11, 2013—The medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders is providing psychological and medical support to traumatized survivors of conflict in the Tana Delta region of Kenya’s Coast Province. Beginning in August 2012, a series of violent clashes have killed and wounded hundreds of people and driven more … Read more
09/01/2013- In June, Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) / Doctors Without Borders opened a hospital in the Idlib region in northern Syria, an area under rebel control. Located behind the front lines, the hospital has 15 beds and a staff of approximately 50, including 10 international MSF workers. Designed to perform war surgery, the facility also offers … Read more
January 8, 2013- Three years after a massive earthquake battered the island nation of Haiti on January 12, 2010, the Haitian health care system remains mired in a state of devastation. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, which was present in the country before the earthquake and responded with its largest-ever emergency relief effort, … Read more
Sudanese refugees have begun crossing the border into South Sudan again More than 170,000 people who have fled violence in Sudan are living in refugee camps in South Sudan. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been assisting the refugees since November 2011, running field hospitals and providing safe drinking water. Now that the flooding caused by … Read more
Three years after the 2010 earthquake, the Haitian healthcare system is still devastated. On 12 January 2010, most hospitals in the earthquake zone were either destroyed or seriously damaged. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continues to manage four hospitals built to replace the temporary structures that it set up immediately after the earthquake, where tens of … Read more