The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called upon the Union health ministry and the drug regulators in the country to work together to ensure that multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients, who are left with few options, benefit from new TB drug bedaquiline, which has been approved by the US FDA for the first time since … Read more
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has resumed medical activities at its maternity hospital in Khost Province, Afghanistan, which were suspended following an explosion in the hospital in April, 2012. 02/01/2013 The reopening follows the demonstration of strong support to MSF, and reassurance over the last few months by the local community and all relevant … Read more
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.
Medical doctor and medical team leader in Kitgum I’m gonna raise an army, some tough sons-of-bitches I’ll recruit my army from the orphanages. Bob Dylan – Thunder on the Mountain Twenty years of internal conflict in northern Uganda have generated an officially recognised humanitarian crisis: an acute medical emergency compounded by a lack of access … Read more
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
Analysis of Health R&D Pipeline Shows Important Progress, but Significant Gaps in Innovation Remain NEW YORK, NY, DECEMBER 13, 2012—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 … 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