Press releases

First-ever treatment guidelines released for major cause of death of people living with HIV

08.12.11

Médecins Sans Frontières study shows cryptococcal meningitis as leading cause of death, but access to best treatment is a major challenge.

At African AIDS Conference, Médecins Sans Frontières Calls For Increased Funding for HIV Treatment

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...

Médecins Sans Frontières response to unprecedented decision to cancel funding round of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, taken at board meeting in Accra, Ghana, November 21-22, 2011

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...

DRC: Attack against Médecins Sans Frontières

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...

Access to HIV treatment must speed up to match political promises

21.11.11

Latest UNAIDS treatment numbers show progress, but funding crunch is major threat

Ethiopia: Surge in the number of Somali refugees demands increased capacity

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...

G20 leaders should bail out global health with a financial transaction tax

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...

Médecins Sans Frontières treats wounded after camp for displaced is hit by bombardment in southern Somalia

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...

Haitian lives still threatened by inadequate cholera response

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...

Sirte, Libya: The integrity of medical facilities must be respected

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...

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