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Doctors Without Borders Teams Filling Gaps in Medical Aid for People Affected by Hurricane Sandy

United States of America

MSF filling gaps in medical aid for people affected by Hurricane Sandy

MSF teams, working alongside local community groups, are providing medical and mental health care to Hurricane Sandy-affected communities in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, as well as Hoboken, New Jersey. The vast majority of the patients treated by MSF in the shelters and underserved communities have been elderly, homeless, or physically or mentally impaired. Project Update - 5 Nov 2012

Lebanon

Fleeing the violence in Syria: Syrian refugees in Lebanon

While Lebanon has absorbed tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the conflict in neighbouring Syria in recent months, many people are living in overcrowded conditions, suffering psychological distress, are fearful for their safety, and are unable to afford medical care, said the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a report released today. Report - 7 Sep 2012

Lebanon

Syrians in need of continuous support

As the crisis in Syria intensifies, humanitarian needs are increasing. Medical assistance within Syria is limited, and aid from international organisations has been severely restricted. In neighbouring countries such as Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, MSF has strengthened its response to the refugees who are crossing the Syrian borders. Project Update - 14 Aug 2012

HIV/AIDS

Glaxo cuts price of Aids drugs in poor countries

GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical company, has slashed the price of its Aids drugs to sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of the world's poorest countries, it announces today. Project Update - 28 Apr 2003

United States of America

Whose interests does the World Trade Organization serve?

Those who support increasing access to medicines for the poor have lost, for now, to those more interested in protecting the patents owned by the US pharmaceutical industry. Project Update - 25 Jan 2003

War and conflict

Chechnya - Ingushetia: A Deliberate Strategy of Non-Assistance to People in Crisis

MSF report on Chechnya-Ingushetia. Report - 25 Jan 2002

Afghanistan

BBC Health Matters interview with Maureen van Rossun du Chattel

MSF paediatrician Maureen van Rossun du Chattel, who was working in Afghanistan for three months prior to the evacuation following the September 11 attacks on New York city. A look at the conditions faced by volunteers in Afghanistan as well as a glance at what motivates people to volunteer with MSF. Project Update - 17 Dec 2001

Russia

MSF urges immediate release of abducted aid worker in Chechnya

Today, the international medical aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) together with the family and friends of the abducted MSF coordinator Kenneth Gluck, expressed their extreme concern for his fate and urged his captors to release him. Press Release - 12 Jan 2001

Russia

Kenny Gluck captured in Chechnya - MSF statement

Ladies and Gentlemen, We are alarmed and we are shocked. Our colleague Kenny Gluck, a dedicated relief worker and a dear friend, was captured last Tuesday in Chechnya in an attack on his convoy by armed men. Statement - 12 Jan 2001

Sri Lanka

Critical medicine shortage

MSF concerned by the critical shortage of essential medicines in northern Sri Lanka Press Release - 17 Apr 2000

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