MSF opens 11 health posts near DRC cease-fire line

Previous MSF surveys in the zones have indicated that one in three children dies before the age of five. In some villages the people have to survive in the most basic conditions. We saw extremely fragile people, locally called the 'living skeletons'". Project Update - 16 May 2003

Russia

Some 200 people call on government to do more to find and free kidnapped aid worker

In a statement May 12, MSF said that kidnapped volunteer Arjan Erkel is alive but his location remains unknown. Arjan was taken on August 12, 2002. See Russian investigators assure MSF that Arjan Erkel is alive Project Update - 13 May 2003

Access to medicines

The G8 : no more broken promises

The G8 have the financial and pharmaceutical resources to do an enormous amount of good. They should do this. In other words, the G8 should move towards meeting past commitments rather than away from them, and to demonstrate to the developing world that it can put global health above the interests of industry in the developed world. No more broken promises. Project Update - 10 May 2003

Nepal

Nepal mission opens in Jumla district

Psycho-social and basic health care projects will be the core activities. Project Update - 8 May 2003

DNDi

New drug research body will tackle diseases that kill the poor

Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) links MSF with public health bodies from several countries in an attempt to bridge the gap between drug development and global illness. It includes research institutes in Brazil, France, India, Kenya and Malaysia. DNDi planned to spend about $US250million ($370million) over 12 years to develop six drugs and get several others in the pipeline, Ms Dinh said. Project Update - 7 May 2003

Malaria

Medicine and health policy

In a report published on the eve of the WHO report, MSF said the continuing use of ineffective drugs despite high levels of resistance is leading to increasing treatment failures and death. Project Update - 3 May 2003

Malaria

Roll Back Malaria campaign still has a long way to go

Donors such as the US Agency for International Development and the UK Department for International Development continue to waste funds on cheap and ineffective treatment for malaria in Africa, according to a report from Médecins Sans Frontières. Project Update - 3 May 2003

Côte d'Ivoire

MSF vaccinates thousands against measles in Ivory Coast

This is the third vaccination campaign carried out by MSF in Ivory Coast in the last two months. Project Update - 2 May 2003

HIV/AIDS

Glaxo cuts price of Aids drugs in poor countries

GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical company, has slashed the price of its Aids drugs to sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world's poorest countries, it announces today. Project Update - 28 Apr 2003

Iraq

Occupying power failing in medical responsibilities in Iraq

The problems in hospitals in Baghdad are no longer related to lack of transport, security or so on, as much as disorganisation and a lack of administration. What we are seeing is a power vacuum in Iraq in general and very clearly in the hospitals. - Dr Morten Rostrup, President, MSF International Council. Project Update - 28 Apr 2003

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