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DNDi

Stimulating research in the most neglected diseases

This article first appeared in The Lancet on March 23, 2002. Project Update - 28 Mar 2002
 
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Neglected diseases

The Plagues of Poverty

MSF is running a pilot project to develop new drugs for sleeping sickness, chloroquine-resistant malaria and a parasite infection called leishmaniasis. Project Update - 19 Mar 2002
 
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Neglected diseases

Neglected diseases of global importance

Governments are ultimately responsible for ensuring that people's health needs are met. Global liability and moral obligation must be the driving force behind research efforts. Project Update - 19 Dec 2001
 
Uganda - Tom Stoddart - 1999
Access to medicines

Report shows near empty pipeline of drugs for diseases of the world's poor

The health revolution of the last 30 years, which has produced substantial gains in life expectancy and unparalleled medical advances, has left most of the world’s population behind in important ways. Press Release - 9 Oct 2001
 
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Neglected diseases

MSF at the Genoa G8: From declarations to action

MSF is demanding that G8 countries, with the leaders of developing countries, take responsibility for restarting R&D for neglected diseases. Of the 1,393 new drugs approved between 1975 and 1999, less than one percent was for tropical diseases. Project Update - 18 Jul 2001
 
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Peru

MSF provides sanitary assistance to victims of earthquake

A cargo with 31 tones of drugs, medical and logistical material has been sent to Arequipa. Press Release - 28 Jun 2001
 
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Access to Healthcare

Leishmaniasis information

Refugee Health: An Approach to Emergency Situations copyright 1997 Project Update - 1 Jan 2001
 
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Neglected diseases

Nobel funds allocated to neglected diseases

When MSF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999, the organisation announced the money would go towards raising awareness of and fighting against neglected diseases. Press Release - 21 Nov 2000
 
20 years providing live-saving treatment to Kala azar patients in Abdurafi
Medical activities

Kala azar

Hundreds of millions of people are at risk of infection with kala azar - one of the world's most dangerous parasitic diseases. Only malaria is more deadly. Topic
 
Noma survivors: closer to getting the attention they deserve
Medical activities

Neglected diseases

MSF teams treat a number of neglected diseases, including noma, Chagas, cutaneous leishmaniasis, in projects across the world. Topic
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

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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