China
International Activity Report, 2007
MSF has advocated to the Chinese government for quality and affordable generic medicines
Only 31,000 AIDS patients, including 600 children, have received life-prolonging anti-retroviral therapy from the national free programme in china, despite efforts since 2002 and the probable growth of the epidemic in the absence of updated figures.
By July 2007, MSF had 1,300 HIV patients registered in its projects in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Xiangfan, Hubei Province, and was providing anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) to patients requiring treatment - nearly half this cohort. Comprehensive care is provided at these locations alongside voluntary confidential HIV testing, treatment of...
16 April 2010
Following a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai Province early Wednesday, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) three-person assessment team arrived on Friday in the provincial capital Xining and has made contact with provincial health officials, the local Red Cross and INGOs who have been working in the earthquake-affected area.
The team has also been in contact with local government officials in Yushu who have said that they will be welcome.
On Friday evening the team travels in a convoy with the local Red Cross to Yushu county, 850 kilometres from the provincial capital. Reaching Yushu remains difficult because of its remote, high-altitude location. The small airport in Yushu is open, as is the only...
19 April 2010
According to official Chinese media, the death toll from the 6.9 magnitude quake last Wednesday in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu has reached 1,706 with 12,128 people injured of whom, 1,394 severely have severe injuries.
The three-person MSF assessment team arrived in Yushu on Saturday evening and spent Sunday meeting officials and looking at medical needs.
The team met with the local Public Health Bureau as well as Foreign Affairs officials who said that MSF assistance with the initial emergency response phase was not needed.
The most severely injured quake victims have already been evacuated to facilities in the provincial capital Xining and neighbouring provinces. The military have set up a...
21 April 2010
The three-person assessment team sent to the area affected by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that devastated the town of Jiegu last Wednesday have finished the initial stage of their assessment.
According to the latest figures by Chinese official media, the quake in the Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu killed 2,064 people and injured 12,135 with 175 people still missing.
The assessment team has confirmed that there will be no immediate MSF response as the Chinese authorities and volunteers have reacted swiftly.
During the assessment, the team met with local health officials and NGOs. They will now return to Beijing and continue to follow the situation.
23 April 2010
The MSF assessment team sent to the area hit by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake on April 14 in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu has returned to Beijing. The quake that struck the remote, high-altitude town of Jiegu on the Tibetan plateau has killed at least 2,187 people and injured 12,135, according to official Chinese media. Tens of thousands pf people have been made homeless in Jiegu, the main town in the area, as well as many in surrounding villages.
During the four-day assessment, the team visited health structures at the prefecture, county and township level and saw massive damage.
“They have not been completely destroyed, but there are many cracks in all the buildings and I think that all the...
