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Humanitarian principles

Distinguishing between military relief and humanitarian aid

The current reporting about relief operations by coalition forces in Iraq has highlighted a number of contradictions and a basic confusion about the word "humanitarian". Project Update - 26 Apr 2003
 
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Iraq

Laws, war, and public health

The recent war in Iraq has raised many questions of legality, not least over the right of the US-led coalition to wage the war, and the alleged illegal holding of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq. There are also a complex set of humanitarian laws that govern war and its aftermath. Project Update - 26 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

'There's no room for a second chance'

Malaria is an ever-present problem in sub-Saharan African countries taking a huge human and economic toll on countries.
Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

Doctors call for cash to beat child killer malaria

Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

Spend more to save children from malaria, west urged

MSF made its plea for action as the WHO and Unicef launched a report on the malaria crisis. Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

WHO demands bigger effort against malaria

The report came as emergency medical aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) appealed for donor nations to come up with more cash to help malaria-infected nations switch to new drug cocktails from now-defunct old single remedies.
Africa Malaria Day 2003 - index
Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Malaria

Useless malaria drugs are no better than Smarties

There are studies in Senegal for example which shows that the death rate from malaria has increased three or four times during the time that resistance to chloroquine has been rising in the last ten years. Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Iraq

Reestablishing leadership is the pressing medical need 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 - 25 Apr 2003
 
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Kenya

MSF welcomes announcement to increase AIDS treatment

Principal actors urged to set aside reservations about treatment with antiretroviral medicines in Africa, and to act now to increase such treatment. Press Release - 25 Apr 2003
 
Malaria

Africa 'needs better malaria drugs'

Africa Malaria Day 2003 Project Update - 25 Apr 2003
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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