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Access to medicines: Humanitarian mechanism for vaccines used for first time in Europe to counter high prices
Central African Republic: MSF denounces killing of medical worker
Yemen: MSF suspends medical admissions in Aden after patient is kidnapped and killed
Iraq: “We helped, but the Iraqi doctors are the ones who made it work”
Gaza: Urgent needs mount after year of suffering

Access to medicines: Humanitarian mechanism for vaccines used for first time in Europe to counter high prices
Central African Republic: MSF denounces killing of medical worker
Yemen: MSF suspends medical admissions in Aden after patient is kidnapped and killed
Iraq: “We helped, but the Iraqi doctors are the ones who made it work”
Gaza: Urgent needs mount after year of suffering

Access to medicines: Humanitarian mechanism for vaccines used for first time in Europe to counter high prices
Central African Republic: MSF denounces killing of medical worker
Yemen: MSF suspends medical admissions in Aden after patient is kidnapped and killed
Iraq: “We helped, but the Iraqi doctors are the ones who made it work”
Gaza: Urgent needs mount after year of suffering

Stories from the field

Bihar: "I try to bring hope to patients living with kala azar-HIV co-infection"
Kala azar is one of the most dangerous neglected tropical diseases in the world. It is spread to humans by bites from infected female sand flies and attacks the immune system. While cases of the disease are declining steadily, kala azar-HIV co-infection is fast becoming a…
Uttar Pradesh: "Hepatitis C is more than a disease"
I have been working at the clinic in Meerut from the day it opened. The assessment we had done prior to opening the clinic had indicated that Meerut district was one of the hepatitis C hotspots. But nothing could have prepared us for the numbers we are seeing now. MSF Dr…
Five of the most read stories from our Indian field workers in 2017
We've compiled a list of the top five reads from our Indian field workers who've shared their stories with us this year. How my first assignment with MSF changed me Anaesthetist Deepa Kannadi went to South Sudan earlier this year for a short stint in an MSF hospital.…

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Statements and Opinions

November 09, 2016

Letter to the Member States of the High Level Group on Syria

DECEMBER 18, 2013 Your Excellencies, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing assistance to victims of the Syrian conflict since April 2011, and we welcome the diplomatic negotiations addressing the urgent humanitarian needs in this extremely violent conflict. But we would like to draw your attention to the vital subject of cross-border aid for populations living in opposition-controlled areas in Syria. An urgent need exists to significantly increase cross-border assistance and to prioritize this issue in negotiations on...Read More

April 07, 2016

Nationwide Lack of Essential Medicines in South Sudan

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) wants to express its frustration that, in an already dramatic context of protracted violence and displacement, the warning we formulated a year ago to the humanitarian community and donors did not lead to any structural or decisive action to prevent a countrywide shortage of essential drugs. The conflict in South Sudan has now continued for over two years, heavily impacting its population and putting as always the most vulnerable at risk. On...Read More

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Medical Research

March 18, 2017

India: The War of Vaccines

Pneumonia in newborns can be fatal. A simple vaccine could save them, and it already exists: but for many parents in India, they just don't have the money to pay for it. Click here to know moreRead More

March 18, 2017

In India’s Fight Against Tuberculosis, Diagnostics Remains Poorly Understood

A lack of innovation in diagnostics is making Indians more prone to drug-resistant TB, which is difficult to treat and could be fatal. Click here to read moreRead More

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October 30, 2017

DRC: Urgent need for aid in the rural areas of Kasai

Kinshasa – More aid is urgently needed in the rural areas of Kasai, central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as people come out of hiding a year after conflict flared in the region, said internatio...Read More

September 28, 2017

Yemen: Government health staff are saving lives without salaries

Amsterdam/Yemen – Yemen’s health service is experiencing widespread and critical problems, in part because most Ministry of Public Health and Population staff received their last regular salary a year...Read More

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