African patients adhere well to anti-HIV regimens

In one study, patients in Kampala, Uganda, were taking 90-94% of their medications. Two other studies - by MSF, of 550 patients in Khayelitsha, and another, of 58 patients in Senegal - had similar findings. Estimates in developed nations are around 70%. Project Update - 13 Sep 2003

Mexico

Suffering because of trade?

The disaster is not that millions of individuals die each year from viral, parasite and bacterial infections, but that several million of them could survive if the appropriate policies were adopted. Project Update - 12 Sep 2003

Liberia

Liberians flee fighting as crisis continues

MSF addresses UN Security Council on urgent humanitarian needs. Press Release - 9 Sep 2003

Angola

Rich and at peace, there's crying poverty in Luanda

Miguel is nine years old. When he was born, Angola was at war, and, like hundreds of thousands of other children, Miguel was not vaccinated. He was just three when he caught polio. Today, he has trouble walking, bending double over his twisted left leg. Project Update - 9 Sep 2003

Sierra Leone

MSF confronts sexual violence in Sierra Leone

MSF has been running a series of workshops on "Sexual and Gender Based Violence" (SGBV) in refugee camps for Liberians in Sierra Leone. Project Update - 8 Sep 2003

Pakistan

Emergency medical support following devastating floods in Pakistan

Project Update - 8 Sep 2003

Refugees, IDPs and people on the move

MSF brings essential aid to immigrants in Ceuta

In the autonomous city of Ceuta, hundreds of immigrants and asylum seekers coming from different continents (Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Northern Africa) find themselves obliged to live in the streets and nearby forests as a result of the saturation of the Government reception system. Project Update - 8 Sep 2003

Liberia

The 'wheelbarrow' ambulance braved the worst in Liberia's conflict

During the recent fighting in Liberia's capital Monrovia, there was a small band of civilians who risked their lives to ferry injured people to health facilities, running out into the streets and gathering injured people in makeshift ambulances - like wheelbarrows. Project Update - 4 Sep 2003

Colombia

Colombia being bled dry

This feature is one of a ten-country series that first appeared in the Belgian newspapers De Standaard (Dutch) and Le Soir (French). Prepared in cooperation with MSF, the series explores the lives of the civilian populations trying to survive in conflicts the world has all but forgotten. Project Update - 1 Sep 2003

Access to medicines

Trading Away Health: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Agreement

To avoid destroying the competition that is reducing drug prices and making treatment more accessible, Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on countries of the Americas to exclude intellectual property provisions from the FTAA agreement altogether. Report - 1 Sep 2003

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