Fixing drug supply and price problems is urgent: report

A promising new diagnostic test will finally help detect more people with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), increasing the urgency to solve major problems around the pricing and supply of DR-TB medicines, according to a new report by the International Union Against...

India must resist European pressure to trade away health

Latest round of negotiations on sensitive intellectual property issues resumes today India should resist pressure from the European Union to accept, as part of a free trade agreement, harmful provisions that will have a major negative impact on access to affordable...

MSF : Haiti cholera outbreak response 'inadequate'

"People covered their mouths as they walked past the dead in Haiti's capitalThe response to a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed nearly 1,200 people has been "inadequate", a major medical charity says. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said despite the huge aid...

MSF, Doctors Without Borders Blasts NATO Afghanistan Proposal

Medicins Sans Fronteirs (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders Critical of NATO Afghanistan ProposalThe Nobel award winning international aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says a new NATO proposal could endanger the...

Haiti Earthquake, Doctors Without Borders Haiti Staff Stories

Doctors Without Borders is one of largest NGO's operating in Haiti both before and now after the earthquake that devastated that country. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) had 800 staff operating 4 hospitals and medical...

Doctors Without Borders: It's Not Clear Who Is In Charge In Haiti

Doctors Without Borders is having to deal with a major slowdown in operations, saying it's unclear about who is in charge in Haiti. Doctors Without Borders has now performed 400 surgeries and given primary care to...

Doctors Without Borders: Airport Violence Over Fuel In Haiti

Doctors Without Borders reports security concerns in quake-hit Haiti are escalating. The chief emergency officer of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Benoit Leduc said during today's teleconference that there have...

Doctors Without Borders Sending Inflatable Hospitals To Haiti

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is sending a massive inflatable hospitable  to Haiti as part of its earthquake relief efforts. The inflatable hospital is designed for transport and rapid deployment to areas that...

Doctors Without Borders Responds to Haiti Earthquake MSF in Haiti

One of the main and largest non-profit organizations working in Haiti helping earthquake victims is Doctors Without Borders also known by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Now, not only is Doctors...

Hmong refugees at risk of humanitarian crisis - MSF withdraws

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), or Doctors without Borders as they are otherwise known, runs the risk of creating a humanitarian crisis if it goes ahead with plans to withdraw from a Hmong refugee camp in Northern Thailand in protest at the Thai governments treatment of...

Crisis Worsens in Zimbabwe

The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe is worsening and without increased foreign assistance the crisis will become a full blown health catastrophe according to Medecins Sans Frontieres international president Dr....

Top Ten Humanitarian Crises List Released by MSF

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released its 11th annual top-ten humanitarian crises list highlighting what the organization sees as the 10 worst humanitarian crises in the world for...

Medecins Sans Frontieres to pay for aid worker release

A court order was issued to have Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) pay US$428,000 to the Dutch government. Payment is due in a dispute over ransom paid to liberate a Dutch aid worker Arjan Erkel from captivity in the Russian republic of Dagestan....

MSF confirms three employees killed in Somalia blast

The Hague (ANTARA News) - The Dutch branch of aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said three employees -- a Kenyan doctor, a Frenchman and a Somali driver -- were among those killed Monday by an explosion in southern Somalia."MSF confirms with great sadness that three of its...

'forgotten' crises

While Iraq grabs the headlines in the US, England, and Canada there are many stories going untold across the planet. Médecins Sans Frontières has put out a list of forgotten crises around the world. Are you in...

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