8-29 | Over the last two days, the US Administration and other governmental authorities have referred to reports from several agencies, including Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), while stating that the use of chemical weapons in Syria was “undeniable” and to designate the perpetrators.
8-24 | Three hospitals in Syria's Damascus governorate that are supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have reported to MSF that they received approximately 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms in less than three hours on the morning of Wednesday, August 21, 2013.
8-20 | Access CampaignThe US Food and Drug Administration approved the new HIV drug dolutegravir on 13 Aug, but drug’s producer ViiV's indicating it would pursue a ‘tiered-pricing’ strategy that will keep the drug out of reach for people who need it, limiting the use and sale of generic versions to only 67 countries, excluding many low- and middle-income countries where millions of people with HIV live.
8-9 | On Monday, 5th of August, a group of armed men attacked a car belonging to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a main road outside Juba. Two MSF staff members were seriously injured, one of them died from his injuries two days later.The car was clearly marked as belonging to MSF. The exact circumstances of this attack are not yet clear, and MSF is still trying to better understand what happened. MSF is outraged by this unprovoked attack on a humanitarian organisation that has been working in South S
8-8 | MSF starts first use of pneumococcal vaccine in South Sudan As Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) starts vaccinating against pneumonia in Yida refugee camp, South Sudan, the international medical humanitarian organisation warned that the global vaccination community is neglecting the roll out of new vaccines among crisis-affected children. While planning to immunise children against pneumococcal diseases in Yida camp, MSF faced multiple barriers trying to purchase newer vacc