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HIV/AIDS: ARVs as prevention must move quickly “from science to action”
A landmark study showing major reductions in HIV transmission among discordant couples due to early treatment may fail to have a significant impact on HIV prevention unless governments and donors are...
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Target of 15 million people on HIV treatment by 2015 secured at AIDS summit
Funds and affordable drugs needed to turn target into treatment Governments meeting at a UN Summit on AIDS have taken a critical step by committing to reach 15 million people with HIV treatment by 2015...
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Somalia: MSF is rapidly scaling up its activities in Mogadishu
Last week, Médecins Sans Frontières sent medical teams and four charter planes carrying 55 tons of medical equipment, medicines and therapeutic food to Mogadishu in response to the crisis in Somalia....
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Situation deteriorating in Mogadishu’s shanty towns as drought victims...
Ravaged by 20 years of civil war, the Somali capital has experienced an influx of displaced persons in the last three months. Providing aid to people who have fled hunger and fighting is a constant...
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MSF calls for increased funding for HIV treatment at Africa AIDS conference
As Africa’s AIDS conference convenes in Addis Ababa tomorrow, efforts to combat HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are under serious threat because of a massive funding crisis at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,...
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MSF closes its largest medical centres in Mogadishu after killings
…… Other projects in Somalia continue, but MSF medical assistance in Somali capital reduced by half. Following the tragic killings of our colleagues Philippe Havet and Dr. Karel Keiluhu in Mogadishu,...
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Sahel: the fate of 160,000 Malian refugees hanging in the balance
Aid provided to Malian refugees in Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Niger is insufficient, the medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today. Since...
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Overwhelming refugee influx causing crisis in South Sudan
MSF warns of dire medical needs in overcrowded and under-prepared refugee camps- London/Juba, 13 June 2012 – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warns of dire medical consequences as...
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Bangladesh: Immediately lift ban on Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Action...
Mrs. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, pm@pmo.gov.bd or ps1topm@pmo.gov.bd or psecy@pmo.gov.bd RE: Bangladesh: Immediately lift ban on Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Action against Hunger...
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Novel program shows strong promise in malaria prevention
A large scale malaria prevention program, consisting of intermittent distributions of anti-malaria medicines, appears to be drastically reducing the number of new cases of the disease among young...
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