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Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, December 2011
Violence

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
 
HIV - Anti-retroviral treatment Mumbai India

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

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

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

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
 
HIV-AIDS hospital in Kinshasa
HIV/Aids

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 - Anti-retroviral treatment Mumbai India
HIV/Aids

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

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

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

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