9-10 | Access CampaignWith the start of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations taking place in Brunei in August, MSF warned that the negotiators were moving towards finalizing a deal that in fact would restrict access to affordable medicines and constrain governments’ ability to protect the health of their citizens.
8-21 | Country’s first international symposium to tackle DR-TB crisis begins 22 August An urgent health threat in Myanmar is drawing together leading experts to explore new ways to tackle the drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) crisis. Forms of TB that cannot be treated with standard drugs are presenting at an alarming rate in the country, with an estimated 8,900 people newly infected every year. Yet only a fraction of people with the disease, 800 by the end of 2012, receive treatment. Untreated, the airborne and infectious disease is fatal.
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Afghanistan
MSF strongly condemns violence against humanitarian workers and facilities following the attack on an office of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Jalalabad on 29 May.
Central African Republic
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“Sometimes we just want to die. We can’t move. We can’t leave. We can’t fish. We just want to fish.” Man in Myebon township, Rakhine State, Myanmar
Nearly a year since deadly inter-ethnic clashes in Rakhine state first broke out, conditions in the displaced persons camps, combined with movement restrictions and ongoing segregation of Rakhine and Muslim communities, are severely impacting on healthcare said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today.
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Afghanistan
On 26 January, a bomb blasted in the northern Kunduz province, MSF received 22 patients in its surgical hospital. Apart from Kunduz, MSF also works in Helmand and Khost provinces.The Democratic Republic of Congo
From 26 December 2012 to 19 January 2013, MSF teams vaccinated 65,082 children, aged 6 months to 15 years, against measles in the region of Bunyakiri in South Kivu.