08.12.11
Médecins Sans Frontières study shows cryptococcal meningitis as leading cause of death, but access to best treatment is a major challenge.
05.12.11
NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 3, 2011 – As Africa’s AIDS Conference convenes in Addis Ababa tomorrow, efforts to combat HIV in sub-Sahara Africa are under serious threat because of a massive funding crisis at the Global Fund to Fight...
23.11.11
NOVEMBER 22, 2011 -- Because donor funding for global HIV/AIDS and the Global Fund has been declining, the Fund is in the most dire financial situation it has ever seen since its creation ten years ago. As a result, the Global...
Democratic Republic of Congo / 22.11.11
Kinshasa, November 21, 2011 - Médecins Sans Frontières strongly condemns an attack on the team it has working in Masisi, North Kivu province, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The medical aid organisation has...
21.11.11
Latest UNAIDS treatment numbers show progress, but funding crunch is major threat
Ethiopia, Somalia / 03.11.11
DOLO ADO, November 2, 2011. Unless the capacity to deliver aid is rapidly increased, there will be significant problems in meeting the needs of Somalis fleeing to Ethiopia, the international medical humanitarian organisation...
01.11.11
Sydney, 1 November 2011 – Médecins Sans Frontières has urged the Australian government to support the proposed creation of a financial transaction tax (FTT) to be discussed at the G20 summit this week and to call for a percentage...
Somalia / 31.10.11
NAIROBI, 30 Oct 2011 - Médecins Sans Frontières staff in Marere, in Lower Juba Region, southern Somalia, are treating dozens of injured following an aerial bombardment on the town of Jilib that hit a camp for internally-displaced...
Haiti / 20.10.11
Port-au-Prince, 19 October 2011—One year since the start of the ongoing cholera epidemic in Haiti, people all over the country are still threatened by the deadly disease. Healthcare services and measures to prevent the spread of...
Libya / 20.10.11
MISRATA/PARIS, OCTOBER 18, 2011 -- The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières today called on the warring parties in Libya to immediately halt all attacks on and intrusions into medical...