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March 9, 2010 | Press Release

AIDS Care Gap between Wealthy and Developing Countries Risks Becoming a Chasm

London, March 9, 2010 – AIDS leaders gathering in London today face the daunting challenge of implementing new World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations for earlier treatment with better AIDS drug cocktails at a time when donors are backing away from the promise of “universal access,” said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Read more »

March 8, 2010

Republic of Congo: The Forgotten People of the Ubangi River

Tens of thousands of refugee families who fled fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo are now living on the banks of the Ubangi River, enduring shortages of food, shelter and healthcare. Read more »

March 8, 2010

Chile: MSF Supporting Hospitals, Organizing Mobile Clinics, Sending Supplies

Ten days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile, the MSF teams that have travelled through the affected areas are focusing their interventions on the most urgent needs: supporting health structures that are caring for large numbers of patients, re-establishing primary health care services, distributing basic necessities, and offering mental health assistance to the affected population. Read more »

March 5, 2010

Afghanistan: MSF Expanding Services Offered in Eastern Kabul

MSF is looking to expand the services and training it is providing at Ahmed Shah Baba Hospital in Eastern Kabul. Read more »

March 5, 2010

Afghanistan: MSF Providing Badly Needed Health Care in Helmand Province

MSF is supporting the regional Boost Hospital in Lashkargah, the capital of Afghanistan's Helmand province. Read more »

March 5, 2010

Voice from the Field: Ethiopia's Somali Region: "The moment I saved a child’s life for the first time will always stay with me"

MSF midwife Mali Ebrahami described her experience working in Wardher, where health care and other basic services are minimal. Read more »

March 4, 2010

Haitians Facing 'Intolerable Breach of Human Dignity'

The conditions in which thousands of people are surviving today are shameful. In assembly areas, there is such overcrowding that people are literally living on top of each other. We have seen people sleeping on the ground, with only a bed sheet hanging over their head for shelter. Read more »

March 4, 2010

Burundi: A Girl Named 'Good News'

Drops of sweat run down her neck, but her eyes are lit up. Mary Nicizanye is recovering at the MSF center in Kabezi just south of the capital, Bujumbura. Four days ago she gave birth to a little girl here. Read more »

March 3, 2010

Haiti: MSF Expanding Post-Operative Services in Response to Growing Need

“The immediate emergency phase may be over, but the long-term work is just beginning, and it’s no less an emergency,” said MSF Haiti head of mission Karline Kleijer. Read more »

March 2, 2010

Chile: MSF Assessing the Situation in Areas Most Affected by the Earthquake

Several MSF teams are assessing the needs in the Maule and Bio Bio regions of Chile, both of which were hard hit by the 8.8–magnitude earthquake that struck last Saturday. Read more »

February 28, 2010

Chile: First MSF Team Arriving to Assist Earthquake Survivors

The first members of an exploratory team from MSF have already arrived in Santiago, the capital city of Chile, in order to assess the needs of victims after an 8.8–magnitude earthquake struck the country early Saturday morning. Read more »

February 27, 2010

MSF Sends Teams to Chile to Evaluate the Situation After Today’s Earthquake

MSF is sending an exploratory team to assess the needs of the victims after an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude in the Richter Scale struck Chile early Saturday morning, causing serious damages in several areas of the country. Read more »

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