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22 February 2012
| Reports and publications
The UN estimates that over the last few years between 15,000 – 20,000 people living with HIV die
annually in Myanmar, because of lack of access to urgent lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART).
Lives in the Balance outlines the situation for people affected by HIV and TB, with a special focus on multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), in Myanmar today. It calls for urgent funding and assistance to be made available by the international donor...
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22 February 2012
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Maung Myint, a HIV and TB patient, tells us about his struggle to get life saving treatment in Myanmar.
To help patients like Maung MSF launches a new report on the dire lack of treatment for HIV and TB in Myanmar, as donors slash future funding.
37 year old man co-infected with HIV and multi-drug resistant TB or MDR-TB. Photo: Greg Constantine
Maung Myint, “I believe ART will be...
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22 February 2012
| Press release
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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16 February 2012
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MSF launches 'Dadaab: Back to square one'
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) launches today a public communication called “Dadaab: Back to square one.” The international medical organisation takes stock of the current humanitarian situation and operational challenges in Dadaab, Kenya, home to the world’s largest refugee camp. The open report also reviews the emergency response MSF provided throughout 2011...
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16 February 2012
| Reports and publications
Download Dadaab Back to Square One
In the Dadaab camp - the largest refugee camp in the world- where life is becoming more difficult everyday, hundreds of thousands of refugees are facing a humanitarian emergency. The health of refugees is at risk of deteriorating rapidly while humanitarian aid agencies are struggling to provide meaningful assistance on an ongoing basis.
In October 2011, in the wake of the kidnapping of two...
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14 February 2012
| Article
For the past 6 years drug giant Novartis has been pursuing a legal case in India that threatens access to life-saving affordable medicines for millions across the developing world.
As the case now opens before the Indian Supreme Court, join MSF & tell Novartis that people matter more than profits.
TAKE ACTION NOW: Join MSF & tell Novartis patients matter more than profits
About the Novartis Drop the Case Campaign
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10 February 2012
| Reports and publications
These 15 testimonies from injured people and doctors from across Syria were collected by
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) staff between January 30 and
February 6, 2012.
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08 February 2012
| Press release
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
| Article
The Syrian regime is conducting a campaign of unrelenting repression against people wounded in demonstrations and the medical workers trying to treat them. While MSF cannot work directly in Syria, it has collected testimonies from wounded
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Syria: Medicine as a Weapon of Persecution
patients treated outside the country and from doctors inside Syria. These 15 testimonies, from...
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08 February 2012
| Press release
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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