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HIV/AIDS

DNDi launches new drug development programme to address treatment needs of children with HIV/AIDS

“There are millions of children with HIV/AIDS in low- and middle-income countries, but their needs are absent from the HIV research and development agenda, and this is largely because they are poor and voiceless and do not represent a lucrative market,” said Dr. Bernard Pécoul, Executive Director of DNDi. Project Update - 18 Jul 2011
 
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Pakistan

Despite increased support, limited access prevents the scope of MSF intervention in Kurram Agency, Pakistan

For several years now, the limitation of access to Kurram for our international staff, including medical specialists, is limiting our intervention. The support provided by MSF in Kurram could be extended, replicated to other hospitals and to other FATA agencies, if access restrictions to these areas were lessened. Project Update - 8 Jul 2011
 
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Pakistan

A rich and fascinating experience

Brian Moller is Australian. A nurse by training, he currently serves as MSF's project coordinator in Hangu, Pakistan. Brian talks about his mission and his experience. Voices from the Field - 20 May 2011
 
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South Sudan

Southern Sudan's forgotten emergencies

It is a cruel irony for the people of Southern Sudan that the whole world is now fully focused on the potential fallout of this weekend’s referendum on secession from the North, while the ongoing emergencies facing the region since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) six years ago were all but ignored. Opinion - 7 Jan 2011
 
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Access to medicines

Ten stories that mattered in Access to Medicines in 2010

Through its Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been closely following the developments in the world of access to medicines, vaccines and diagnostics.
Among the positive stories of the past year: new tools were developed for Meninigitis A and for tuberculosis, promising research was published on severe malaria, an innovative mechanism was created to bring make medicines more affordable, and the quality of food aid is progressively improving. But it wasn’t all good news in 2010: donors are turning their back on AIDS, and pursuing a number of policies that threaten access to generic medicines. At the same time, measles is making a comeback, and neglected tropical diseases continue to take a heavy toll.
Photo Story - 30 Dec 2010
 
South Sudan

Southern Sudan in grips of worst kala azar outbreak in eight years.

Epidemic compounds existing medical humanitarian crisis Press Release - 16 Dec 2010
 
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Sudan

MSF treats wounded following deadly violence in Tabarat market, North Darfur, Sudan

MSF has supported several emergency responses in Sudan this year. Press Release - 9 Sep 2010
 
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South Sudan

MSF increases capacity in response to kala azar outbreak in South Sudan

MSF has set up an additional base in Pagil in Jonglei State in South Sudan to expand its capacity in dealing with an alarming increase in the number of patients infected with kala azar (visceral leishmaniasis). Project Update - 23 Aug 2010
 
Kala Azar treatment in Fulbaria
Bangladesh

Hope for kala azar sufferers in Bangladesh

Health ministers from Nepal, India and Bangladesh, where the disease is endemic, signed a Memorandum of Understanding in May 2005, pledging to collaborate to eliminate kala azar from the region by 2015 in line with the Millennium Development Goals. Press Release - 18 Jun 2010
 
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Neglected diseases

MSF and DNDi call for a more rounded resolution on Chagas disease

The resolution, 'Chagas Disease: Control and Elimination', to be adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is a step in the right direction but should not focus only on prevention. Project Update - 17 May 2010
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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