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14 June 2013
Dr Vanessa Naidoo, from Cape Town, has been selected as one of the Mail and Guardian's annual 200 Young South Africans for her work with MSF as an emergency doctor in Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Sudan and most recently Syria.Read full article below.
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04 May 2013
Thousands of people have fled the town of Pinga in eastern Congo following renewed fighting between local armed groups, and nine members of Doctors Without Borders' Congolese staff have gone missing, the aid group said on Friday...Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, initially said that 11 members of its Congolese staff had gone missing, but two staff members have since been accounted for. Stellema said the aid group expected to hear from the others soon...
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25 April 2013
Increasing numbers of children are being treated for malaria and malnutrition in southern Niger by the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) compared to a year ago, suggesting that 2013 may see higher peaks of the two diseases than previous years, MSF warned...“Urgent action is needed to stop children continuing to die from these preventable causes,” says Luis Encinas, MSF’s programme manager for Niger. “To tackle...
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25 April 2013
With World Immunisation Week (April 20 – 26) drawing attention to vaccinations, Nicky Willemse turned the spotlight on Dr Seth Berkley...The United States medical doctor specialising in infectious disease epidemiology, who is chief executive of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi Alliance), is determined to take vaccinations to 250–million children in the developing world by 2015, potentially saving four–million lives...However, Daniel Berman, general...
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22 April 2013
The government planned to overhaul intellectual property laws to improve access to cheaper medicines by making it harder for pharmaceutical firms to register and roll over patents for drugs, a senior official said yesterday... If approved by parliament, the changes should mean cheaper medication for cancer and HIV/Aids in South Africa, which has one of the world's highest HIV infection rates..."South Africans are missing out on affordable versions of life-saving...
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19 April 2013
Just days into the rollout of fixed-dose combination (FDC) antiretrovirals (ARVs) by South Africa’s HIV treatment programme - the world's largest - activists are raising fears of drug shortages...Motsoaledi launched the phased rollout of FDCs on 8 April at a small community health centre north of the country's capital, Pretoria. New patients and HIV-positive women who are pregnant or breastfeeding will be the first to receive the new medication...But stock shortages have...
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18 April 2013
Tuberculosis remains South Africa’s leading cause of death. This year alone, the country will see 500 000 cases, of which about 3% will be resistant to both of the most commonly used anti-TB drugs. The majority of these patients will have caught drug-resistant TB from someone in their community, most will never have had TB before in their life...One of the critical issues in treating TB is early identification of patients so that you can treat them early to avoid...
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12 April 2013
London - Almost 74 000 Malians, who have been displaced by war and ethnic tension, are in need of urgent help in the desert of Mauritania, the Doctors without Borders (MSF) aid group said on Friday... MSF said that the displaced at the Mbera camp were also suffering from food insecurity and a lack of basic services, but there was no famine as “rations have improved, food is sufficient now”, said MSF emergency official Marie-Christine Ferir. But water is scarce...
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08 April 2013
Health activists hailed the launch of the new fixed dose combination ARV therapy by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi on Monday but there’s some concern about the state’s ability to deliver it to all who need the drug... Motsoaledi said at the launch in Pretoria: “We will be starting with newly diagnosed HIV-positive persons eligible for treatment, HIV-positive pregnant women and breast-feeding mothers.. ..Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF...
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05 April 2013
After a seven-year battle, India's government has successfully defended its right to reject drug patents if a medicine doesn't deserve one…On Monday, India's Supreme Court upheld decisions by lower courts to reject a patent on Gleevec, or Glivec, a cancer medicine produced by the Swiss drug company Novartis…At the end of 2012, eight million people were receiving treatment worldwide, including nearly two million South Africans. "This case is extremely important for people...
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