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Ahead of Prime Minister Modi's Visit, MSF Urges India to Put People’s Health Before Pharmaceutical Profits

India must resist pressure from US lawmakers and pharmaceutical industry groups to block access to key medicines for millions of people worldwide

Press Release - 8 Jun 2016

MSF Mediterranean Search and Rescue Operation I

A month in focus- May 2015

Nepal: With two earthquakes in two weeks, destroying 130, 00 homes and damaging thousands more. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams were deployed rapidly in the country. The organisation now has 120 staff working in the field.

Yemen: After almost two months, fighting between rebels and pro-government forces have left 1, 400 people dead.

Chad : Nigerian refugees fleeing Boko Haram attacks are given shelter in neighbouring Chad 18,000 people have crossed Lake Chad and are living either in camps or in the community.

Haiti: MSF runs the only facility in Port-au-Prince specialised in treating patients with severe burns.

Mediterranean Sea: It’s estimated that 20,000 people have lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean in the past 15 years. At the beginning of May 2015, MSF sent medical teams aboard two ships, each equipped for several hundred people. Less than 24 hours after the first ship took to sea—369 people were rescued and taken to Italy.

Iran: In southern Tehran, women excluded from society have no access to healthcare. MSF has opened a clinic to address their needs.
Videos and Photos - 8 Jun 2016

Governments at UN must address severe lack of HIV treatment access in West and Central Africa during High-Level Meeting

Proposal to reach 30 million people with HIV treatment by 2020 is crucial, but urgent scale-up of treatment needed in low-coverage areas to close deadly treatment gaps.
Press Release - 7 Jun 2016

Chad

Rogers Musafiri “The people of Chad have numerous major health challenges”

Meet Rogers Musafiri, MSF Fieldworker who recently returned from Chad as a doctor in reproductive health and child care services as well as HIV and tuberculosis (TB) programmes at the MSF-supported Am Timan Regional Hospital.
Fieldworkers Stories - 6 Jun 2016