MSF calls on the SA government and trade unions to ensure uninterrupted supply of HIV, TB, and other chronic disease treatments in public health facilities
01 Sep 2010 | Press Release |
MSF condemns the full or partial closure of vital antiretroviral therapy, tuberculosis, and other chronic medication services at public sector facilities due to the protracted public service strike. Read more...
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Flood affected need safe water and healthcare, not politics
26 Aug 2010 | Press Release |
MSF expresses its concern that it has witnessed emergency responses in the flood-stricken Pakistan based on some donor countries own national security interests and not based on real needs of the population. "Humanitarian assistance in any conflict environment must be based on principles of independence and neutrality. Warring parties, governments, and political parties, cannot claim these principles” said Thomas Conan, MSF representative in Pakistan. Read more...
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"Three Time Victims" - Colombians continue to face violence, neglect and stigma in the conflict
27 Jul 2010 | Press Release |
The victims of the Colombian conflict not only suffer from the direct consequences of violence caused by the on-going conflict but also suffer from social and institutional stigma and neglect in Colombia. The MSF report “Three time victims” demonstrates how this triple victimisation impacts the mental health of people living in Caquetá department (southern Colombia). In this report, MSF calls for mental health services to be adapted to the needs of this vulnerable population. Read more...
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Latest MSF field research shows striking gains with new approaches to HIV/AIDS treatment
22 Jul 2010 | Press Release |
Field research presented today by the international medical humanitarian organisation MSF at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna provides further evidence that implementing early treatment initiation and an improved first-line regimen significantly reduces mortality rates and makes treatment adherence easier for patients, even in remote settings. Read more...
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Tension and violence continue in south Kyrgyzstan - MSF calls for impartial access to health care
20 Jul 2010 | Press Release |
Five weeks after violent clashes erupted in the south of Kyrgyzstan and despite an apparent return to a more peaceful situation, MSF doctors, psychologists and nurses continue to deal with cases of violence on a daily basis. More concerning still, the capacity of victims to receive adequate health care differs according to the community they belong to. Read more...
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Donors gambling with patients’ lives by retreating from AIDS funding
19 Jul 2010 | Press Release |
“Today international donors expect doctors to tell patients to come back for treatment when they’re at death’s door,” said Dr. Eric Goemaere, medical coordinator at MSF in South Africa. “This is bad medicine. As a doctor I’d much rather give a patient pills today and send her home, than delay treatment and see her in six months at the hospital with complicated tuberculosis.” Read more...
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Key data on earthquake emergency relief in Haiti published by Médecins Sans Frontières
08 Jul 2010 | Press Release |
Six months after the January 12 earthquake in Haiti, MSF publishes today a report describing the organisation’s largest ever emergency response. The report also describes the dire living conditions of Haitians today and provides an explanation of MSF’s commitment in years to come.
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HIV patients refuse to be sidelined by international community in unique football tournament
02 Jul 2010 | Press Release |
Today, as the first World Cup ever hosted in Africa gathers pace, an alternative international football tournament will highlight the disastrous reversal in the fight against HIV/AIDS that risks the unnecessary deaths of millions. Read more...
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Unni Karunakara new international president of MSF
29 Jun 2010 | Press Release |
During the International Council meeting of MSF in Amsterdam this weekend, Dr. Unni Karunakara has been installed as the new International President of the medical humanitarian organisation. He takes over from Dr. Christophe Fournier, and will head MSF’s worldwide movement, which includes 19 national associations and branch offices in other countries, for the next three years. Read more...
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MSF hands over last hospital to Ministry of Health after 20 years of emergency aid in Liberia
25 Jun 2010 | Press Release |
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“Liberia was devastated by 14 years of brutal civil war, with its health system in ruins by its end,” says Dr. Dhammika Perera, MSF Head of Mission for Liberia. “Recovery is always slow, but today the Ministry of Health takes over MSF’s last hospital services. We remain in the country, but after two decades, it is an important milestone for us and symbolic of how far Liberia has come in providing healthcare to its people again.”
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