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As Clock Ticks Toward Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Deadline, U.S. Must End Stall Tactics on Access to Medicines
NEW YORK, 4 MARCH 2013 — As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières...
Last updated 5 March 2013
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Treating Chagas in Rural Bolivia: A Photo Story
MSF has been working in the province of Narciso Campero in Bolivia to prevent, diagnose, and treat Chagas disease. Despite the fact that the medicines used to treat it are over 40 years old and have...
Last updated 28 February 2013
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Africa IP Forum: TAC and MSF ask Minister Rob Davies: “Patent law reform is long overdue, where are your proposals?”
JOHANNESBURG, 25 February 2013 – This week the South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) sponsors a high-level forum to discuss harnessing intellectual property (IP) to encourage African...
Last updated 25 February 2013
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65,000 Children Vaccinated Against Measles in DRC's South Kivu
In the past month, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in the Bunyakiri region of Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu Province have vaccinated more than 65,000 children aged 6 months to 15 years...
Last updated 1 February 2013
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‘Decade of Vaccines’ blueprint ignores high vaccine prices and lacks ambition on better-adapted vaccines
24 January 2013, Geneva - Governments meeting at the World Health Organization’s Executive Board (WHO EB) this week must seize the opportunity to improve serious shortcomings in the document that will...
Last updated 24 January 2013
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Some South African TB patients in dire need to get new US approved TB drug
8 January 2013, CAPE TOWN – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first new tuberculosis (TB) treatment in 50 years, bedaquiline, to treat multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)....
Last updated 8 January 2013
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MSF Condemns Targeting of Health Workers in Pakistan
20 DECEMBER 2012 — Regardless of the parties or individuals responsible for the recent escalation of attacks against health workers in Pakistan, both patients and medical workers risk losing their...
Last updated 3 January 2013
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First new tuberculosis drug for 50 years – works on drug-resistant forms of the disease
Médecins Sans Frontières calls for rapid registration in countries with high drug-resistant tuberculosis burden NEW YORK/GENEVA – 31 December 2012 - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomed the...
Last updated 31 December 2012
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One Year After Killing of Our Two Colleagues in Somalia
29 December 2012 - It is with great sadness that the international medical humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) marks one year since our two colleagues, Philippe Havet and Andrias...
Last updated 29 December 2012
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HIV in Zimbabwe: “We cannot normalise a situation that is not normal”
Mari Carmen Viñoles and Jean François Saint-Sauveur landed in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe in April 2009, after several previous assignments with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Mari Carmen arrived...
Last updated 27 December 2012
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