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The Right Shot: Extending the reach of affordable and adapted vaccines

15 May 2012
MSF Report: The Right Shot
The Right Shot: Extending the reach of affordable and adapted vaccines
      Lack of information on both the price and the different product characteristics of vaccines has been limiting countries’ ability to operate affordable and effective immunisation programmes. This publication seeks to remedy some of the existing knowledge gaps by raising awareness on existing price differentials, exploring what factors drive fluctuations in vaccine prices, and discussing where development of better adapted vaccines could reduce barriers to immunisation and increase coverage levels of traditional and newer vaccines. This publication serves as a resource for immunisation stakeholders, such as donors, implementing partners, and developing countries,...
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'Losing Ground': How Global Fund Shortages and PEPFAR cuts are jeopardising the fight against HIV and TB

21 March 2012
HIV/TB, Myanmar, Global Fund, health crisis
A monk holds his ART medication at the MSF Tharketa clinic, Myanmar. Photograph: Greg Constantine
  'Losing Ground' focuses on the impact of the cancelation of Global Fund Round 11 on HIV and TB treatment programs in the countries where MSF runs HIV/Aids activities. This MSF issue brief was developed from answers to questionnaires sent to all MSF HIV and TB projects around the world, and was developed by MSF's Access Campaign and Advocacy and Analysis Unit (AAU). 
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Maternal Death: The Avoidable Crisis

07 March 2012
Martenal Death: The Avoidable Crisis
Martenal Death: The Avoidable Crisis
    Download the Report     Read the Report   Every day, approximately 1000 women die in childbirth or from a pregnancy-related complication. Maternal death can occur at any time in pregnancy, but delivery is by far the most dangerous time for both the mother and the baby. The vast majority of these deaths can be prevented if access to emergency obstetric care is ensured. Experience shows us that at least 15 percent of all pregnant women worldwide encounter a life-threatening complication. In a conflict or a crisis, pregnant women are even more vulnerable because...
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Newsletter MAMELA Issue6

01 March 2012
Newsletter MAMELA Issue6
Newsletter MAMELA Issue6
  Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) SA's Quarterly newsletter.
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Lives in the balance: the urgent need for HIV and TB treatment in Myanmar

22 February 2012
Lives in the balance: the urgent need for HIV and TB treatment in Myanmar
Lives in the balance: the urgent need for HIV and TB treatment in Myanmar
 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 community to help Myanmar close the devastating gap between people’s need and people’s access to treatment for HIV and TB. An estimated 120,000 people living with HIV/AIDS are in need of lifesaving ART, in Myanmar. In 2010, according to national estimates,...
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Dadaab Refugee Camps: Back to square one

16 February 2012
Dadaab: Back to square one
Dadaab: Back to square one
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 MSF staff and amid a climate of worsening security, all ‘non-lifesaving activities’ were halted within the camps, and official registration of new arrivals was stopped. Today, for many refugees, services have not been restored. There is an urgent need to...
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Press Dossier: Syria- Medicine as a Weapon of Persecution

10 February 2012
Syria: Medicine as a Weapon of Persecution
Syria: Medicine as a Weapon of Persecution
  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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Newsletter MAMELA Issue 4

02 August 2011
MSF SA's Quarterly newsletter Issue4
MSF SA's Quarterly newsletter Issue4
Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) SA's Quarterly newsletter
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Newsletter MAMELA Issue5

02 December 2011
Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) SA's Quarterly newsletter
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MSF response in Somalia, 2011: Full report & Summary

29 December 2011
Somalia
Somalia Accountability report 2011
The humanitarian situation in Somalia this year saw major food shortages – which caused severe malnutrition, large population displacement and outbreaks of cholera and measles. Download the report 'Assisting the Somali population affected by the humanitarian crisis of 2011'  As a result, MSF – which has been working in Somalia since 1991 – began significantly scaling up its medical response in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya from April 2011. This was largely possible due to substantial financial support from private donors around the world.   The report ‘Assisting the Somali population affected by the humanitarian crisis of 2011’ ...
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