HIV/Aids
Briefing Document - 8 Feb 2012
Reversing AIDS? How advances are being held back by funding shortages
Over ten years after Doctors Without Borders began providing antiretroviral treatment to a limited number of people in urgent need of treatment, some MSF projects have been able to reach and maintain ‘universal access’ to treatment.Briefing Document - 8 Feb 2012
HIV/Aids
Latest News - 6 Feb 2012
Herald Sunday Tribune: 'Don't stop selling your cheap ARVs'
About 25 HIV-Aids activists gathered outside the Indian consulate-general's headquarters in Johannesburg to voice their concern over India and the EU setting up a trade deal that would results in cheap anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) suddenly becoming inaccessible to millions of HIV-positive people.Latest News - 6 Feb 2012
South Africa
Latest News - 1 Feb 2012
Big Media SA: South African triage system to go global
Doctors Without Borders will be the first global medical humanitarian organisation to adopt South Africa's Triage Score (SATS) emergency response system in several countries where their teams provide emergency medical care.Latest News - 1 Feb 2012
Asylum seekers
Press Release - 31 Jan 2012
No way in means no way out: South African immigration policy entraps asylum seekers
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 Doctors Without Borders (MSF).Press Release - 31 Jan 2012
Afghanistan
Fieldworkers Stories - 31 Jan 2012
Letter from the field: Adeline Oliver in Afghanistan
I’ve been working for nearly six months, supervising nearly 20 nurses and 20 cleaning staff in the operating theatre, sterilisation department, intensive care unit and female in-patient department of Boost Hospital, which sits on the outskirts of Lashkargah.Fieldworkers Stories - 31 Jan 2012
Exclusion from Healthcare
Press Release - 25 Jan 2012
Libya: Detainees tortured and denied medical care
Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata, MSF announced today.Press Release - 25 Jan 2012
HIV/Aids
Press Release - 25 Jan 2012
85% of AIDS patients deprived of treatment in DRC
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.Press Release - 25 Jan 2012
Violence
Press Release - 24 Jan 2012
Latest attacks in Jonglei, South Sudan
In the State of Jonglei in South Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of inter-communal fighting.Press Release - 24 Jan 2012
Violence
Press Release - 11 Jan 2012
South Sudan: MSF engaged in challenging emergency response in Jonglei State
On Saturday 7th January 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.Press Release - 11 Jan 2012
MSF condemns attacks on aid workers
Two 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.Press Release - 7 Jan 2012