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23 April 2013
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The team working at one of MSF's hospitals in Northern Syria has learned to adapt to a changing situation. As the front lines have moved further away, the influx of patients has decreased, but in the last months the number of burn victims has grown. During the winter, families relied on rudimentary stoves for heat. Domestic accidents occur frequently or gunfire causes panic. At those moments, the stove may explode or the fuel canister may catch on fire. “Burn...
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23 April 2013
| Press release
Abuja, Nigeria - Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has finally been able to start medical treatment for children suffering from lead poisoning in the village of Bagega. In the first of four groups to receive medical care, MSF has started 34 children on specialised chelation therapy to remove the lead from their blood, and will monitor a further 126 children. The medical humanitarian organisation urges that this is just the beginning; it...
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23 April 2013
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TAKE ACTION WITH MSF TODAY: Send GAVI a message asking them to open their discounted prices to MSF
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22 April 2013
| MSF in the media
The government planned to overhaul intellectual property laws to improve access to cheaper medicines by making it harder for pharmaceutical firms to register and roll over patents for drugs, a senior official said yesterday... If approved by parliament, the changes should mean cheaper medication for cancer and HIV/Aids in South Africa, which has one of the world's highest HIV infection rates..."South Africans are missing out on affordable versions of life-saving...
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20 April 2013
| Press release
An explosion today at the gate of the District Headquarter Hospital in Khar, Bajaur Agency injured and killed several people, leading the international medical humanitarian association Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to insist that medical structures and patients be spared from violence. MSF is working in Bajaur, which borders Afghanistan, calls for respect for the safety and security of patients, health facilities, and medical...
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19 April 2013
| Press release
Nairobi - After weeks of flooding, the people of Tana Delta Region are still in urgent need of food, shelter, access to clean drinking water and medical services, says the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). MSF is calling for more concerted efforts to provide food and other basic items to the thousands of people displaced by the floods in Tana Delta region. A child stands outside a...
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19 April 2013
| MSF in the media
Just days into the rollout of fixed-dose combination (FDC) antiretrovirals (ARVs) by South Africa’s HIV treatment programme - the world's largest - activists are raising fears of drug shortages...Motsoaledi launched the phased rollout of FDCs on 8 April at a small community health centre north of the country's capital, Pretoria. New patients and HIV-positive women who are pregnant or breastfeeding will be the first to receive the new medication...But stock shortages have...
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18 April 2013
| MSF in the media
Tuberculosis remains South Africa’s leading cause of death. This year alone, the country will see 500 000 cases, of which about 3% will be resistant to both of the most commonly used anti-TB drugs. The majority of these patients will have caught drug-resistant TB from someone in their community, most will never have had TB before in their life...One of the critical issues in treating TB is early identification of patients so that you can treat them early to avoid...
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15 April 2013
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Visit MSF projects around the world and see what we really do. This month, we look to the deplorable conditions of Malian refugees in Mbera camp, Mauritania. We look at the humanitarian situation in Somalia and that of sub-Saharan migrants trapped in Morocco.We also look at drug patents in India, life in Papua New Guinea and a failing health system in Chechnya.
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12 April 2013
| Press release
MSF report calls for urgent aid effort for 70,000 MaliansNouakchott - Some 70,000 refugees from Mali are living in difficult conditions in the middle of the Mauritanian desert, with ethnic tensions in northern Mali quashing any hopes of a swift return home. A report released today by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) entitled “Stranded in the desert” calls on aid organisations to urgently renew efforts to meet the refugees’ basic needs.Malian...
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