Press release
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22 February 2012
Bangkok, Thailand – In a report released today Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the largest provider of HIV treatment in Myanmar, highlights the critical need for increased HIV and Tuberculosis (TB), including multi drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), treatment in the country.
An HIV patient is assessed in an MSF clinic, Myanmar. He is 21 years old yet weighs just 23kg. Photo: Greg Constantine...
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08 February 2012
MSF South Africa, TAC, Section27 & He-Tic Warn on Eve of Crucial Summit
JOHANNESBURG – As India and the European Union prepare to meet at a New Delhi summit to finalize a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) under negotiation since 2007, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SECTION27 and He-Tic held a picket to warn that harmful provisions in the agreement could have a severely negative...
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08 February 2012
MSF South Africa, TAC, Section27 & He-Tic Warn on Eve of Crucial Summit
JOHANNESBURG – As India and the European Union prepare to meet at a New Delhi summit to finalize a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) under negotiation since 2007, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SECTION27 and He-Tic held a picket to warn that harmful provisions in the agreement could have a severely negative...
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08 February 2012
The Syrian regime is conducting a campaign of unrelenting repression against people wounded in demonstrations and the medical workers trying to treat them, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today.
While MSF cannot work directly in Syria, it has collected testimonies from wounded patients treated outside the country and from doctors inside Syria. The testimonies, collected from...
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01 February 2012
Johannesburg/Musina - Thousands of asylum seekers fleeing instability and persecution run the risk of deportation at one of South Africa’s busiest border regions as immigration authorities make it impossible to apply for asylum, contravening national and international Refugee Law and showing blatant disregard for the humanitarian and medical consequences, warns Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The international medical humanitarian...
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26 January 2012
MSF Suspends Work in Detention Centres in Misrata
TRIPOLI – Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata, MSF announced today.
Libya. MSF physiotherapist with a patient in a prison in Misrata. Photo:...
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25 January 2012
Kinshasa – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is alarmed by the situation of HIV/AIDS patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the lack of priority given by the Congolese authorities and the withdrawal of donors, all occurring as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary on 28 January.
The conditions surrounding access to care for people living with HIV/AIDS in DRC...
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24 January 2012
Juba – In the State of Jonglei in South Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of inter-communal fighting. Wounded patients are still arriving at the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders(MSF) hospital in Pibor, three weeks after the violent attack on the town and outlying villages in Pibor County. Many were injured in the bush, where thousands have remained, afraid to come out of hiding. MSF medical teams are now treating serious...
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11 January 2012
Juba - On Saturday 7th January Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) returned to Pibor town with 12 medical and logistics staff to provide an emergency response in the aftermath of last week’s inter-communal violence in Pibor, Jonglei State. The looting of MSF’s facilities and the climate of uncertainty make it challenging for MSF to rapidly scale up activities.
MSF primary health care hospital...
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07 January 2012
Two Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) colleagues, Phillipe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhuo, were killed last week by a gunman while implementing emergency assistance projects in Mogadishu. Three months ago, two MSF aid workers, Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, were abducted in Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya while carrying out emergency assistance for the Somali population.
These attacks on aid workers must be condemned...
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