MSF calls on G8 to take action on malnutrition Read more
Long, toxic and barely effective..read how MSF patients struggle on their MDR TB treatment
Major step forward:WHO agrees on plan to reform R&D system
Untangling the web of price reduction a pricing guide for the purchase of ARVs for developing countries. Full report
- © Daniel Jaquet
MSF calls on G8 to step up to the crisis of childhood malnutrition As the food crisis intensifies, MSF is calling on G8 leaders meeting in Japan to take action to adequately finance food aid and nutrition programmes directed at young children. Read full press release
Find out more on MSF and malnutrition
- © Sheila Shettle
Patent rejection in India sets precedent: For the first time, a patent on an ARV in India has been rejected following a pre-grant opposition filed by Indian civil society Read more
Further patent oppositions filed by civil society: Indian and Brazilian civil society groups have filed two further oppositions to patents on the AIDS medicines, tenofovir and valgancyclovir. Read more
Dr Johan van Grievsen, an HIV doctor in Rwanda with MSF until the end of 2007, describes the severe side effects of some antiretrovirals drugs and why our patients need access to a better drug - tenofovir - but at an affordable price Click here for interview
- ©TaunusGrafik
A major step forward as WHO agrees plan aimed at transforming R&D system and enhancing access:“Countries have pledged to give health interests the pre-eminence they deserve when considering how to manage IP ”said Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Director of MSF’s Access Campaign at the close of the World Health Assembly Read full statement
- (C) Brendon Bannon
Monica lives in Mathare, a slum near Nairobi. She is infected with both HIV and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB, a stronger and more persistent form of the disease that continues to kill about 1,7 million people every year. Monica has to take care of her family and there are no facilities in the slum to hospitalise her, so she needs to come to the clinic twice a day, everyday. Click here for slideshow
Stimulating the Debate on Malnutrition
MSF took its malnutrition campaign to a meeting of key actors in the nutritional community held in Vietnam earlier this year. Read more about MSF's activities at the Standing Committee on Nutrition Read about MSF's malnutrition campaign MSF Field Research
MSF has launched a new website containing over 350 peer-reviewed scientific studies based on its field experience. These studies have often changed clinical practice and been used for humanitarian advocacy. |
Ethiopia's nutritional programmes
Jalalo is worried. His wife has brought their one year old twins to the MSF stabilisation centre in Shashemene, in the Oromiya region of southern Ethiopia, to be treated for malnutrition, but his ten other children are at home with no food. Read full story Give us the tools we need
From an effective diagnostic test for TB, to drugs that work against Chagas disease and HIV treatments for children and pregnant women - none of these are available to our teams in the field because of the failure of the current system of medical R&D. Read more about the medical challenges we face and some solutions that could deliver the medical tools we need to treat our patients. |
