Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh: Stuck with nowhere to go

MSF
More than 6,000 men, women and children have sought refuge on a stretch of land 800 meters long and 30 meters wide, where food and potable water is scarce and access to health care limited. Press Release - 12 Mar 2007

Indonesia

MSF response to Indonesia earthquake

An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale struck Indonesia on March 6, 2007. Project Update - 12 Mar 2007

Yemen

Desperate Somalis on the wild sea to Yemen

"We heard many hard stories from the immigrants. But still, when we arrived, when confronted with the huge number of boats arriving day and night, the feeling was not the same. It's hard to see people risking their lives this way."
Ibrahim Younis, Head of Mission, Yemen Project Update - 10 Mar 2007

Mozambique

A month after the initial floods, thousands of Mozambicans in remote areas still do not get any assistance

The global capacity response at local level has reached its limits. An international mobilisation is crucial to avoid a worsening of the flood victims' health conditions. Press Release - 8 Mar 2007

India

Novartis angers critics in India

Challenge of patent laws creates uproar among public-health advocates. Project Update - 5 Mar 2007

Chad

In south-east Chad, MSF is stepping up assistance to displaced people

The displaced are forced to leave their homes with few belongings. They struggle to survive with little food and without the means to support themselves and are prevented from returning to their homes by patrolling gunmen. Many displaced remain in informal settlements in insecure areas where they get no or only little assistance. Project Update - 2 Mar 2007

Sudan

Darfur staff interview: 'I can still see them standing there, waiting'

"It's happening to people who have lived in the village for years. They are being shot at, attacked, chased away. Now they're concentrating on surviving in the place they've been brought to and from which they can't leave." Interview - 1 Mar 2007

Global

MSF study shows good outcomes for second-line AIDS treatment in resource-poor settings

But access to needed newer medicines remains an alarming problem. Regimens that consist of newer medicines can cost between 10 and 50 times more than today's standard first-line therapy. Beyond price, many newer medicines are marketed under monopoly-like conditions, as was the case for first-line drugs in the late 1990s. Press Release - 1 Mar 2007

Sudan

'Maybe there is just too much real grief here'

A letter from MSF medical doctor Joe Jacob.
"I am writing from a town called Muhajariya, population 36,000, a significant proportion of whom are displaced refugees within their own country. Here we run a clinic where we are the only medical and surgical referral centre in this region, attending to the needs of a wider population of 200,000 people. Life is far from easy here, but the happiness and sheer enjoyment of living today that envelopes and dissipates the ever-present fear here, would certainly make you think otherwise." Voices from the Field - 1 Mar 2007

Democratic Republic of Congo

Offering free health care in a neglected region of the DRC

By taking over the hospital in Lubutu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Médecins Sans Frontières aims to fight mortality in an area hit by a catastrophic health crisis. Project Update - 26 Feb 2007

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