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September 7, 2010Niger: Treatment and Prevention to Break the Cycle of MalnutritionMSF and its local partners have treated 77,000 severely malnourished children in Niger this year and are distributing food supplements to 143,000 young children. To address a recurrent nutritional crisis, prevention is crucial. Read more » September 6, 2010Any New Financial Transaction Tax Must Dedicate a Proportion of its Funds to HealthBrussels, September 6, 2010—As finance ministers from the European Union gather in Brussels for a formal meeting to discuss the establishment of an EU-wide financial transaction tax, MSF calls on them to dedicate a proportion of the receipts from any fundraising mechanism to global health. Read more » August 10, 2010MSF Responds to the Needs of Flash Flood Victims in Jammu & KashmirMSF is providing urgently needed medical and humanitarian assistance to people in the worst affected villages in and around Leh. Read more » July 27, 2010Three-Time Victims: Colombians Continue to Face Violence, Neglect, and Stigma as a Result of Long-Standing ConflictNew York, July 27, 2010—Victims of the on-going conflict in Colombia not only suffer from the direct consequences of violence caused by the conflict but also from social and institutional stigma and neglect, according to a report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Read more » July 19, 2010HIV/AIDS: Donors Retreat From Funding, Gamble with Patients' LivesInternational donors are disregarding scientific evidence and seeking short-term cost savings at the expense of ten million people in need of treatment for HIV/AIDS. Read more » July 19, 2010Kyrgyzstan: Tension and Violence Continue in the SouthFive weeks after violent clashes erupted in the south of Kyrgyzstan, MSF continues to deal with cases of violence on a daily basis. Read more » July 7, 2010Haiti: MSF Publishes Key Data on Earthquake Emergency ReliefSix months after Haiti’s January 12 earthquake, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released a report describing the organization’s largest ever emergency response. Read more »
June 29, 2010New MSF International President ElectedJune 25, 2010Liberia: MSF Hands Over Hospitals to Ministry of HealthAfter 20 years, MSF handed over the two hospitals it has been running in Liberia to the country's Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Read more » June 22, 2010G8: Reform Food Aid System And Generate Resources to Reduce MalnutritionToronto/Geneva, June 22, 2010: World leaders meeting at the G8 and G20 summits will not succeed in improving mother and child health in the developing world unless they fundamentally change how they address malnutrition and establish new sustainable funding sources to combat this treatable and preventable condition, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Read more » June 17, 2010Migrants in Detention: Lives on HoldAthens, June 17, 2010 - Ahead of World Refugee Day on June 20, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released a report documenting the impact of detention on the wellbeing and mental health of migrants and asylum seekers in detention centers in Greece. MSF urges Greek authorities to ensure humane living conditions for detained migrants, and to consider alternatives to their detention. Read more » June 14, 2010Chad Nutrition Crisis Requires Accelerated ResponseGeneva/New York, June 14, 2010 – People living in the Sahelian belt of Chad are facing one of the worst nutrition crises in recent years. The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for a faster and larger deployment of humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of the most vulnerable populations, particularly children under the age of five. Read more » June 2, 2010Starved for Attention: A Radical New Vision Of MalnutritionNEW YORK, JUNE 2, 2010 – The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the VII Photo agency today launched “Starved for Attention,” a global multimedia campaign presenting a unique and new perspective of childhood malnutrition, a preventable and treatable condition that nonetheless claims the lives of millions of children each year. Read more » May 26, 2010Donor Retreat Widens HIV/AIDS Treatment Gap in AfricaJohanesburg/New York, May 27, 2010 - Backtracking by international donors of HIV/AIDS treatment risks undermining years of positive achievements and will cause many more unnecessary deaths, warned the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report released today. Read more » May 17, 2010Combating Chagas Disease Must Also Include Treatment and Research for New MedicinesGeneva, May 17, 2010 – A World Health Assembly (WHA) resolution on Chagas disease control and elimination, to be adopted this week, is a step in the right direction but does not go far enough to fully tackle the disease since it focuses only on prevention, the international medial humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the Drugs for Neglected Disease initiative(DNDi) said today. Read more »
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