Drug-resistant TB
Press Release - 21 Mar 2012
Drug and diagnostics manufacturers have to join fight against drug resistant tuberculosis
Alarming new data suggest that the global scope of the drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) epidemic is much bigger than previously estimated.Press Release - 21 Mar 2012
South Sudan
Press Release - 13 Mar 2012
Urgent humanitarian aid needed for 80,000 Sudanese refugees
Only a short window of opportunity remains before the rainy season severely inhibits the urgent provision of humanitarian assistance to tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees in South Sudan, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned today.Press Release - 13 Mar 2012
Tuberculosis
Press Release - 11 Mar 2012
India offers first compulsory license
In a landmark case, the Indian Patent Office has issued the first-ever compulsory license in India to a generic drug manufacturer.Press Release - 11 Mar 2012
Maternal death: The avoidable crisis
Every day, approximately 1000 women die in childbirth or from a pregnancy-related complication.Report - 8 Mar 2012
Drug-resistant TB
MAMELA magazine issue 6 - March 2012
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa's magazine, issue 6, March 2012 Magazine - 1 Mar 2012
Violence
Press Release - 25 Feb 2012
Afghanistan: MSF treats wounded after Kunduz protests
Following violent protests over the reported burning of Korans at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders(MSF) has received 50 people at its surgical hospital in Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan. Many patients had suffered gunshot wounds.Press Release - 25 Feb 2012
As Norvatis shareholders meet, MSF urges company to drop court case in India
As shareholders of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis meet today in Basel, Switzerland, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on shareholders to urge the company to drop its ongoing court case against the Indian government.Press Release - 22 Feb 2012
HIV/Aids
Press Release - 22 Feb 2012
Proposed India EU free trade agreement threatens access to medicines for millions
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.Press Release - 22 Feb 2012
HIV/Aids
Report - 21 Feb 2012
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 dieannually in Myanmar, because of lack of access to urgent lifesaving anti-retroviral therapy (ART).Report - 21 Feb 2012
Refugees
Report - 15 Feb 2012
Dadaab refugee camps: 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.Report - 15 Feb 2012