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Measles

DRC: Vaccination campaigns must be organised immediately to halt the measles epidemic

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is calling on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and its partners to decide immediately to launch follow-up vaccination campaigns in Equateur and Orientale provinces so that the campaigns can begin in early September.
 Press Release - 25 Aug 2011
 
Malnutrition

RSG (Afrikaans): Situation in Dadaab - interview with MSF staff

Chescu Vilalong, Acting Head of Mission, MSF, describes the situation on the ground in Dadaab, where thousands of Somalis are entering  as they try and escape the drought and hunger in Somalia.
 Latest News - 22 Aug 2011
 
Malnutrition

Childhood malnutrition - what's happening now?

In 2010, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) launched a campaign to call on donor governments to stop providing sub-standard foods with insufficient nutritional quality to malnourished children living in developing countries.
 Briefing Document - 14 Aug 2011
 
Primary Health Care in Kibera, Nairobi
Drug-resistant TB

Fully sick bloggers tell TB as it is

So the blogs are an attempt to hear from patients about what they need. "I don't think MSF has all the answers on how to set up the services, but if we are going to have these dialogues, we should allow patients to have their voice.

 
 Opinion - 11 Aug 2011
 
HIV/Aids

Novartis’ six-year legal challenge against India’s pro-health patent law heads to Supreme Court

Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis heads to the Indian Supreme Court today in New Delhi, in a final bid to undermine a key public health safeguard in Indian patent law specifically designed to prevent drug companies from abusive patenting practices which keep medicine prices high.
 Press Release - 10 Aug 2011
 
MSF AL-Salam supported Primary Health Care Qataba, Yemen
Armed conflict

MSF condemns armed raid on its office and dettention of its staff in Barhain

The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today condemned an armed raid on its premises in Bahrain and the subsequent detention of one of its staff members.
 
 Press Release - 3 Aug 2011
 
Access to Healthcare

MAMELA magazine issue 4 - August 2011

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) South Africa's magazine, Issue 4, August 2011.
 Magazine - 1 Aug 2011
 

Nowhere else to go

Zimbabweans and other survival migrants and refugees forced by circumstances to live in slum buildings in inner-city, Johannesburg February 2011.
 Report - 27 Jul 2011
 
HIV/Aids

Nowhere else to go

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is gravely concerned that South African authorities’ strategies to address migration do nothing to resolve the greater humanitarian crisis surrounding vulnerable migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
 Press Release - 27 Jul 2011
 
Malaria

Superstar singer &malaria ambassador Yvonne Chaka Chaka opens new malaria exhibition

Malaria in Context highlights the history, impact, prevention and treatment of an illness causing 800,000 unnecessary deaths every year.
 Press Release - 26 Jul 2011