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Access to medicines

MSF recommendations to the 55th meeting of the WHA

From May 13-18, the World Health Assembly (WHA) is meeting to debate and set policy for the WHO. MSF provides the following recommendations regarding access to essential medicines. Project Update - 13 May 2002
 
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Angola

End of the war, beginning of hunger

In Damba, MSF counted more than 200 malnourished people out of a population of 2,000. The daily mortality is around 7 people per 10,000 - seven times worse than an emergency situation. Project Update - 8 May 2002
 
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Angola

Angola 'grey zones' emergency - a dying population

"We have seen hardly any little children under five. Lots of them had already died," said Mercedes Tata, MSF's medical emergency coordinator in Chipindo. "A whole hill has been covered with fresh graves since September" - Chipindo, April 2002 Project Update - 7 May 2002
 
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Haiti

MSF increasingly alarmed by nutritional crisis in Angola

Traumatized families coming out of the forest - more dead than alive Press Release - 6 May 2002
 
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea

The humanitarian situation and refugees in North Korea

Testimony presented to the United States House of Congress Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific on May 2, 2002 by Sophie Delaunay, Regional Coordinator for North Korea, MSF. For more information, see Additional testimonies of North Korean refugees regarding the situation. Project Update - 2 May 2002
 
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HIV/AIDS

Patents, prices and patients: the example of HIV/AIDS

Price is not the only reason that people do not get the medicines they need, but it is a major barrier. As MSF and other non-governmental organizations have been pointing out for over two years, the high cost of medicines is often linked to patents. Project Update - 1 May 2002
 
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Afghanistan

Up to 30,000 Afghans remain stuck on Pakistan border

Basic living standards for the refugees present threat of cholera outbreak. Project Update - 30 Apr 2002
 
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Sri Lanka

Psychological trauma of the civil war in Sri Lanka

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been working in Sri Lanka in both government and Tamil- controlled areas since 1986, and in Vavuniya for the past 2 years. Project Update - 26 Apr 2002
 
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Malaria

WHO announcement on Africa Malaria Day signals positive shift in treatment policy

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes this new policy and calls for increased funds to aid immediate implementation. Press Release - 25 Apr 2002
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF team in Shabunda evacuated - food situation worsening

Project Update - 24 Apr 2002
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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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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