Public Events
2004 Events
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Wednesday, December 1, 2004
AIDS Treatment: Reaching the People?
World AIDS Day
Los Angeles, CA
Film Screenings and Discussion
with Professor Roger Bohman
and Laemmle Theatre
with NPR's Kitty Felde
Film:
AIDS Treatment: Reaching the People? is a film documenting the lives of patients and medical teams in MSF's HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Malawi, Thailand, and Guatemala. Six million people urgently need treatment to survive - what will it take for HIV/AIDS medicines to reach them in time?
Film Screening and discussion with MSF field volunteers Gildon Beall, MD, who worked in Thailand and China, Deborah Milligan, MD, who worked in Kenya, and Rick Hamner, MD, who worked in Malawi.
Location
UCLA AIDS Institute
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
The Hidden Scars of War: Providing Mental Health Care in Times of Conflict
New York, NY
Broadcast journalist Garrick Utley; Kaz de Jong, mental health advisor with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Holland; Carol Etherington, mental health nurse and former MSF-USA Board President; and MSF volunteer psychologist Michael Michalik, recently returned from the Gaza Strip, discussed MSF's mental health programs.
MSF is known for providing emergency medical care for people affected by war and conflict around the world. More recently, the organization has also entered the field of mental health. MSF now runs programs for survivors of war, conflict, and sexual assault from Colombia to the Democratic Republic of Congo to Kashmir.
How do mental health programs approach cultural differences? Does MSF favor individual, family, or community-based therapies? How are these programs evaluated? And what kind of support can be offered to people for whom a crisis never ends — where the term "post-traumatic stress" has little meaning?
Co-sponsored by New York University School of Medicine Master Scholars Program
Location
NYU Medical Center
New York, NY
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November 7-11
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH)
Miami, FL
MSF symposium
Running out of Breath? A critical look at TB care and treatment in the 21st century
David Olson, MD, Medical Advisor, MSF-USA, Symposium Chair
Defusing the Ticking Time Bomb: Fighting Multi-Drug Resistant TB
Francine Matthys, MD, TB Advisor, MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
The MSF Experience with TB Care and Treatment: Daring to Dream of Alternatives to DOTS
Joelle Tanguy, Director, Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
Moving Beyond Archaic Drugs: Developing the Best TB Tools that Science Can Deliver
Non-MSF Symposium
Scaling Up the Delivery of Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource Poor Countries: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go Next?
Davidson H. Hamer, Boston University School of Public Health, Symposium Chair
Christopher J. Gill, Boston University School of Public Health, Co-Chair,
Lynn Margherio, Clinton Foundation
Overview of Efforts to Develop Sustainable Supplies of Antiretroviral Medications and Testing to Support Treatment Programs in Developing Countries
David Olson, MD, Medical Advisor, MSF-USA
Overview of Medecins sans Frontieres antiretroviral treatment programs
Jabbin Mulwanda, Ndola Central Hospital, Zambia
Challenges in the Expansion of HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs: The Zambia Perspective
William R. Rodriguez, Harvard Medical School Devision of AIDS
Can an HIV Laboratory Run On a Battery?: HIV Diagnostics in Resource-Poor Settings
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November 6-10
American Public Health Association Washington, DC (APHA)
Washington, DC
Brigg Reilley, MPH, Program Officer, MSF-USA
Implementing ACT in Malaria Endemic Areas of Africa
Rachel Cohen, US Director, MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
Key Elements for Scaling Up ARV Treatment Based on MSF's Field Experience
Rachel Cohen, US Director, MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Access to Essential Medicines
Darin Portnoy, MD, President of the Board, MSF-USA
Acceptance Speech for the APHA' President's Citation on behalf of MSF
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October 13-17
American Academy of Family Physicians/World Conference of Family Doctors (AAFP/WONCA)
Orlando , FL
Andrew Schechtman, MD, MSF Aid Worker
Bob Levin, MD, MSF Aid Worker
Tropical and Travel Medicine
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October 9-13
American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP)
San Francisco, CA
Ellen ’t Hoen, Director of Policy Advocacy & Research, MSF Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries — The Silent Crisis that Kills 14 Million People a Year
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Thursday, September 30, 2004
Catastrophe in Darfur: No End In Sight?
New York, NY
A discussion with Ann Curry of NBC's Today Show; journalist Scott Anderson, a regular contributor to the New York Times Magazine; Nicolas de Torrente, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF); Salih Booker, executive director of Africa Action; and MSF volunteer Jonathan Spector, MD. An estimated one and a half million people have fled attacks by government-backed militia in Darfur, western Sudan, since May 2003. They continue to be terrorized in the overcrowded, unsanitary camps where they have sought refuge, and are dying from violence, disease, and malnutrition. Up to half a million people have received no assistance at all. Why was the world so late to notice what was happening in Darfur? Are conditions improving? What does the future hold for the people of Darfur?
Hosted by Eugene Lang College and the Graduate Program in International Affairs, New School University. Location
Tishman Auditorium, New School University
New York, NY
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September 2-4
American Political Science Association (APSA)
Chicago, IL
Nicolas de Torrente, Executive Director, MSF-USA
APSA Theme Panel: Human Rights After 9/11
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Thursday, June 17, 2004
One Patient at a Time: Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Conversation with Doctors Without Borders
New York, NY
A discussion with Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent, and physicians from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to discuss MSF's response to infectious diseases in some of the world's most neglected communities.
Rowan Gillies, MD, is President of MSF's International Council, and has worked in Afghanistan, Liberia, Sudan, and Sierra Leone; Lulu Oguda, MD, has treated people living with HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral therapy in Malawi, one of the worlds poorest nations; as a health adviser for MSF, Unni Karunakara, MD, oversees programs in Latin America, southern Africa, and the Middle East, and advises on sleeping sickness and ebola; Jill Seaman, MD, has spent the past 15 years in war-torn southern Sudan treating kala azar, a deadly yet little-known disease that can devastate entire villages.
With 14 million people worldwide dying every year from treatable infectious diseases, how does MSF choose which diseases to treat, and where? What medicines are available, and are they effective? And how do doctors decide who to treat first when faced with so many people in need?
Location
Tishman Auditorium, New School University
New York, NY
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