Access to health care - Colombia's cycle of violence

There are many rural medical staff that assume exceptional levels of personal risk to provide medical attention. They frequently recount stories of armed groups exerting pressure and control over their movements or work.
Download the complete MSF report in PDF format: Living in Fear: Colombia's Cycle of Violence (English)
Vivir Con Miedo (Espagnol) Project Update - 27 Apr 2006

Angola

As the number of infected people reaches 20,000, response to Angola cholera epidemic remains insufficient

"Many factors have conspired to make this cholera outbreak one of the worst ever seen in Angola. But with what we know today there can be no excuse for not doing everything humanly possible to prevent the death toll from climbing much higher," says Richard Veerman, MSF Head of Mission in Angola. Press Release - 27 Apr 2006

Access to medicines

World Intellectual Property Day: Governments should ignore the conclusions of WHO report on intellectual property and public health at their own risk

"The CIPIH report clearly signals that innovation is meaningless if the people who need it do not have access to it," said Ellen 't Hoen, Director of Policy and Advocacy at MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. Press Release - 26 Apr 2006

Chad

Around the clock surgery in N'djamena's main hospital

"We had to perform quite a lot of double inferior limbs amputations. Most of the wounded are quite young. We've been treating girls and even a three-year old baby." Press Release - 14 Apr 2006

Democratic Republic of Congo

'Ketudi Byakudya' - We don't have enough food

Executive summary to the MSF Report: Food, nutrition and mortality situation of IDP's in Dubie, Katanga 23-25 March 2006. Project Update - 10 Apr 2006

Colombia

Living in fear: Colombia's cycle of violence

Médecins Sans Frontières (msf) has worked in Colombia for 21 years providing medical care to civilian populations isolated by the conflict, and more recently to those internally displaced in urban settings. This report seeks to raise awareness of the human cost of the conflict by giving a voice to those who bear the brunt of its harsh consequences. Report - 7 Apr 2006

Lesotho

Lesotho's painfully slow fight to treat HIV

Despite all the money and attention, the rollout of treatment in Lesotho has been glacially slow. This raises some alarming questions, because in many ways, this ought to be a comparatively easy country in which to respond to AIDS: It's tiny; it's culturally, ethnically and linguistically homogeneous; and it's peaceful and democratic. Project Update - 6 Apr 2006

Somalia

MSF launches new health care project in Galgaduud

MSF increases its efforts to bring desperately needed medical aid to the people of Somalia. The organisation's new project aims at providing free health care to the impoverished population of the country's Galgaduud region. Project Update - 3 Apr 2006

India

Patent application for AIDS drug opposed for first time in India

Patents in India endanger global access to affordable medicines and treatment scale-up. Press Release - 30 Mar 2006

Uganda

Two decades of conflict take toll on northern Uganda

As the sun sets, the ragged children begin to arrive. By 11pm, the huge plastic tents that make up the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) shelter are filled with shapes wrapped in blankets, safe for a few hours at least. Project Update - 30 Mar 2006

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