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E-newsletter Issue 53 | January 2007
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Case will negatively impact access to medicines
for millions across the world
A legal challenge by Swiss pharmaceutical company
Novartis against India’s patent law could restrict
access to affordable medicines in the developing world. SIGN
THE PETITION to urge Novartis to immediately drop the
case...
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PROJECT REPORT
FROM EUAN BEAMONT, THAILAND
Euan Beamont is a logistician from Geraldton, Western
Australia, who has completed two missions with Médecins
Sans Frontières. Here Euan writes about his
most recent MSF project from January to August 2006.
He discusses the challenge of survival for the ethnic
minority he worked with in the North Central Thailand
Hmong refugee camp... »
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MSF ISSUES "TOP
TEN" UNREPORTED HUMANITARIAN STORIES OF 2006
The staggering human toll taken by
tuberculosis and malnutrition as well as the devastation
caused by wars in the Central African Republic, Sri
Lanka, and Democratic Republic of Congo, are among
the “Top Ten” Most Underreported Humanitarian
Stories of 2006, according to the year-end list released
today by the international humanitarian medical aid organisation
MSF... »
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On December 5, United Nations agencies, along with many
of their NGO partners, decided to drastically reduce
the numbers of their staff in the field because of
insecurity. MSF fears the impact that this withdrawal
will have on the refugee populations, which are highly
dependent on this aid. Internally displaced Chadians
who have benefited from only minimal assistance now
face even fewer opportunities to obtain aid. Despite
the difficult security conditions, MSF is strengthening
its aid program throughout eastern Chad on behalf of
refugees, residents and displaced persons...»
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On 4 January, 8 new suspected cases
of Rift Valley Fever were discovered by MSF teams in the
Ijara District in the North-Eastern Province of Kenya.
One of the patients died, taking the death toll to at least
67 since the outbreak began on 7 December...»
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