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Access to medicines

First patent goes into the medicines patent pool drug companies must now follow suit

The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced today it will license a patent on the HIV medicine darunavir to the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism designed to boost access to more affordable AIDS drugs in the developing world. The move acts as a wake-up call to pharmaceutical companies to put patents on key AIDS medicines into the Pool, according to international humanitarian medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or MSF). Press Release - 30 Sep 2010
 
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Morocco

MSF raises concern over the medical condition of migrants after mass expulsions by the Moroccan police

"Our team has witnessed the direct impact of these mass raids and expulsions on the medical condition and mental health of the migrants," said Jorge Martin, MSF's head of mission in Morocco. Press Release - 30 Sep 2010
 
Somalia

Casualties overwhelming medical capacity in Somalia

Ongoing warfare in Mogadishu straining ability to treat scores of wounded. Project Update - 29 Sep 2010
 
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Access to medicines

Lack of funding undercuts opportunities to overcome global health threats

Fight against childhood malnutrition and HIV could be transformed by innovative funding mechanisms currently tabled at UN Millennium Development Goals Summit. Press Release - 20 Sep 2010
 
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India

Mental health activities halted due to increasing violence and new curfew in Jammu and Kashmir, India

Increasing violence and a new round-the-clock curfew imposed last Sunday in Jammu and Kashmir, India, MSF to halt its mental health activities in the Kashmir Valley. Project Update - 17 Sep 2010
 
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Ethiopia

In Imey Somali region Ethiopia distance to health care is often overwhelming

'Our health clinic is the closest place to go'
In August 2009, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) started working in Imey, in the Somali region of Ethiopia. In this interview, returning field coordinator, Christian Sorensen, talks about his experience and explains why it is important that MSF is working there today.
Project Update - 14 Sep 2010
 
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Sudan

MSF treats wounded following deadly violence in Tabarat market, North Darfur, Sudan

MSF has supported several emergency responses in Sudan this year. Press Release - 9 Sep 2010
 
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Pakistan

MSF expands Pakistan emergency response into newly flooded areas in the south as concern mounts for waterborne diseases

More than five weeks since the first floods overwhelmed regions in the north of Pakistan, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency medical and water and sanitation teams expand operations to the south of Punjab and in hard-hit Sindh province, where millions of people have been displaced by fresh flooding. Project Update - 8 Sep 2010
 
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Democratic Republic of Congo

New wave of violence brings death and trauma for people living in North Kivu province, eastern DRC

MSF does not know who the perpetrators of these horrific attacks were, but is shocked by the brutality of the incidents and the ongoing level of violence suffered by the people caught up in the conflict in eastern DRC. Project Update - 6 Sep 2010
 
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Sudan

MSF sends emergency supplies to flood-affected families in the Red Sea state, Sudan

Many families in the Tokar region were affected by heavy flooding in mid-July which destroyed homes and water sources. Project Update - 6 Sep 2010
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
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