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Access to medicines

G8 window dresses while poor die from lack of medicines

The G8 governments and the UN Secretary-General announced the constitution of a global health fund designed to tackle infectious diseases in developing countries. Project Update - 23 Jul 2001
 
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Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

Criminals...like rats running away

China's "Strike Hard" campaign which has involved a sharp increase in the number of aid workers arrested and fined and refugees repatriated, many to face death or imprisonment. Project Update - 23 Jul 2001
 
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HIV/AIDS

Health fund pledges 'inadequate'

The world's richest countries on Friday formally launched a new fund to fight Aids, but divisions remained over how it should be administered and health charities said the amount pledged was inadequate. Project Update - 22 Jul 2001
 
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HIV/AIDS

Reuter's coverage of the Global Fund

World powers and the United Nations launched a global war chest on Friday to help fund the fight against AIDS, but pledges from rich nations fell far short of the U.N. target for 2001 of $10 billion. Project Update - 20 Jul 2001
 
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Access to medicines

Global Health Fund must not be a subsidy for the drug industry

As theG8 announces details of Global Health Fund, access to affordable medicines for the poor must be a priority. Project Update - 20 Jul 2001
 
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Neglected diseases

MSF at the Genoa G8: From declarations to action

MSF is demanding that G8 countries, with the leaders of developing countries, take responsibility for restarting R&D for neglected diseases. Of the 1,393 new drugs approved between 1975 and 1999, less than one percent was for tropical diseases. Project Update - 18 Jul 2001
 
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Myanmar

New project in the federal state of Shan

After two years of lobbying, MSF has gained permission to start a project in the federal state of Shan in Myanmar (Burma). Project Update - 13 Jul 2001
 
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Nigeria

MSF activity following ethnic clashes in Nigeria

Ethnic clashes between the Hausa speaking Azara and the Tiv communities in the Nigerian states of Nasarawa and Benue at the end of June resulted in an estimated two hundred deaths and massive displacement. Project Update - 13 Jul 2001
 
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Angola

MSF condemns "near-total neglect" of Angolans

On July 2, the international medical relief agency, Médecins Sans Frontières issued a scathing condemnation of the neglect of basic health-care needs of the population of Angola. Project Update - 9 Jul 2001
 
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Republic of Congo

MSF inaugurates 'TséTsé' , a 15-meter long whaling boat, for Congo Brazzaville

MSF in Congo Brazzaville has added a whaling boat, a 'baleinier', to its fleet. Named the TséTsé, it will be used for the sleeping sickness program there. Project Update - 5 Jul 2001
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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