The humanitarian aid workers who attempt to rescue North Korean refugees face the brutal determination of the Chinese authorities, who deem the assistance of North Korean refugees as a criminal offense... Predictably, in this context, support for North Korean refugees in distress is diminishing and assisting them has become a challenge that increasingly few aid organizations, crushed by this sanction policy, are able to undertake. Press Release - 20 Jan 2003

Access to medicines

MSF calls to WHO's attention outstanding issues on access to medicines

MSF continues its strong collaborations with the WHO in a number of areas germane to this crisis in Research and Development (R&D). Project Update - 17 Jan 2003

Côte d'Ivoire

Hospital and health structures in rebel held area of Ivory Coast assisted by MSF

While sporadic fighting continues in Ivory Coast, MSF is covering medical needs in Korhogo in the northern part of Ivory Coast - the rebel held area of the country. Project Update - 9 Jan 2003

Consultation. En plus de l'assistance medicale aux refugies salvadoriens, MSF est intervenu en Honduras pour des missions d'urgence suite a des catastrophes naturelles (cyclones, ouragans).

MSF Speaking Out

Salvadoran Refugee Camps In Honduras 1988

The 'Salvadoran Refugee Camps in Honduras 1988' case study describes the dilemmas regarding a public stance that was not supposed to be public. In 1988, after 8 years in the Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras, MSF decided to withdraw. MSF refused to meet the excessive, and even dangerous demands by the refugee committees, these extensions of the Salvadoran guerrilla forces that exerted a tight and violent control over the refugee camps. Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2003

Angola

MSF Top-Ten under-reported humanitarian stories for 2002

An April ceasefire brought an end to Angola's brutal 27-year civil war, but not to the extreme suffering of the Angolan people. Project Update - 31 Dec 2002

Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF finally returns to isolated town Shabunda

After more than two months of intensive lobbying, the MSF team formed an agreement with the two warring parties, the DRC military and the Mai Mai, to fly into Shabunda, crossing the political and military division lines, to return and continue their work. Project Update - 16 Dec 2002

Access to medicines

Access denied to essential medicines in developing world

The WHO has warned that, although access to essential drugs has improved remarkably since the introduction of its model list of essential drugs in 1977, one third of the world's population still lacks access to these drugs. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Kenya

Kenya/ART: Battling the national catastrophe

Triple therapy is now one Euro a day but even that is still too expensive for many. Project Update - 1 Dec 2002

Cambodia

Scaling up HIV/AIDS treatment jeopardized by WTO negotiations

MSF and other NGOs can never reach all the people in need. Governments need to implement national ART programmes. Treatment needs to be free or patients need to be able to afford it. Press Release - 28 Nov 2002

Sierra Leone

MSF provides health care for 30,000 Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone

The MSF clinics are located in the nearby villages so as to provide equal access to health care for both refugees and the Sierra Leoneans. This is meant to ease possible frictions between the refugees and the host community. Project Update - 26 Nov 2002

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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Urgent appeal for the protection of North Korean refugees in China