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China

FDCs: fixing access problems

FDCs simplify treatment by significantly reducing the number of pills that need to be taken daily. As they are often made by generic companies, FDCs are also generally much cheaper than the single pills sold by originator companies. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004
 
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Malawi

Hidden from view : monitoring ARV treatment failure

The problem is that detecting treatment failure at the proper time depends on sophisticated laboratory equipment often not available or affordable in poor countries like Malawi. Project Update - 11 Jul 2004
 
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Ecuador

What is the cost for health care in Ecuador?

A new Presidential Decree threatens to place the commercial interests of the US and multinational pharmaceutical companies above the access to medicines of the Ecuadorian people Press Release - 2 Jul 2004
 
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Malaria

Malaria patients enter DNDi clinical trials

To ensure a balanced portfolio of drugs in the pipeline, DNDi mixes quick-fix with long-term projects. In the short term, DNDi is developing "fixed-dose" combinations (two drugs combined into one tablet) for uncomplicated malaria: artesunate/amodiaquine for use in Africa and artesunate/mefloquine for use in Asia and Latin America. Press Release - 2 Jul 2004
 
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Kala azar

Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi): matching needs and opportunities

Neglected diseases such as leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease and malaria have a devastating impact on the world's poor. Project Update - 2 Jul 2004
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

Thousands of refugees from DRC gather on border Burundi

Project Update - 28 Jun 2004
 
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Sudan

West Darfur: "We are looking at a second catastrophe"

"The situation will deteriorate both in terms of the logistics for food supply, but also in terms of epidemics - the seasonal malarial peak is around the corner, and with no latrines, there could be cholera, dysentery, any type of major epidemics. When you think of the global magnitude of the problem - we are talking about one million displaced people - we are afraid tens of thousands of lives could be lost." - Dr. Jean-Hervé Bradol. Project Update - 25 Jun 2004
 
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China

Providing AIDS care and helping street children

In China, where an estimated 1.5 million people are currently living with HIV/AIDS, MSF has begun working with local medical staff to provide care and treatment to HIV-positive people living in Hubei province and Guangxi autonomous region. Project Update - 23 Jun 2004
 
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Sudan

Darfur: A path of scorched earth

The ruined path that winds and stretches between Mornay and Zalingei, in West Darfur, is little more than a long trail of towns and villages ravaged by flames, destroyed with precision, right down to the scores of clay pots, the "quola" for fresh water that lie blackened by fire, upturned, shattered. Project Update - 23 Jun 2004

International Activity Report 03/04

Annual Report - 22 Jun 2004
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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