E-newsletter Issue 58 | July 2007

Urgent need to get existing paediatric formulations to children who need them

Read the press release issued by the MSF last week at the 4th International Aids Society (IAS) Conference held in Sydney...
» read press release and listen to the press conference

Watch the audioslideshow on Paediatric HIV management in Cambodia, from Dr Myrto Schaefer from MSF Australia's Project Unit... » watch the audioslideshow

LETTER HOME: Dr Julianne Millar
Listen to Australian Doctor Julianne Millar, explain about MSF's project in the Blue House Clinic, Mathare, Kenya where she has been working within the HIV/AIDS project ...» listen

ACCESS ISSUES: To HIV/AIDS treatment
Watch the short videos which explain some of the major issues affecting access to quality treatment for HIV/AIDS patients in resource poor settings? » watch the videos

PAKISTAN: MSF provides vital assistance to areas devastated by floods
Following severe floods in Pakistan caused by heavy monsoon rains and the recent Cyclone Yemyin, MSF has set up mobile clinics, a watery diarrhoea treatment centre and water sanitation projects and is also distributing vital relief items... » read more

SOMALIA: New wave of violence prevents people from getting medical assistance
Last May, MSF opened a pediatric clinic for children under five in the Halwadag district of Mogadishu. At the beginning of July, the average number of children in the MSF clinic was 150 per day while last week the patient numbers dropped significantly to 100 per day as a result of the unrest and explosions near the MSF clinic... » read more
MSF urges Novartis to drop its case against the Indian government
Case will negatively impact access to medicines for millions across the world ...
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