Publications

Special Reports

2008
Fearing a Forced Return Nearly 8,000 ethnic Lao Hmong currently confined to a guarded, barbed-wire enclosed camp controlled by the Thai military in the village of Huai Nam Khao in Petchabun province in northern Thailand face the imminent threat of a forced return to Laos. Many of these refugees have told the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the sole nongovernmental organization working in the camp, of a life in Laos spent fleeing violent attacks and persecution, witnessing the murder of family members, suffering rape, surviving bullet and shrapnel wounds, and enduring malnutrition and disease.	May 22, 2008
Putting Patients' Needs First: New Directions in Medical Innovation	April 29, 2008
Greater Upper Nile: Immediate Health Needs Remain amid a Precarious Peace	March 31, 2008
2007
"Top Ten" Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2007	December 18, 2007
Ituri: Civilians Still the First Victims	October 24, 2007
Food is Not Enough: Without essential nutrients millions of children will die	October 10, 2007
Pediatric AIDS Treatment Information Because developing AIDS drugs for poor children is not profitable, many companies don’t even study the effects of existing or new adult antiretroviral drugs in children. We must make sure that the youngest people living with AIDS are not forgotten.	July 6, 2007
Help Wanted: Confronting the Health Care Worker Crisis	May 1, 2007
2006
Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2006	December 31, 2006
Exploring the time to intervene with a reactive mass vaccination campaign in measles epidemics In a recent study, MSF and its research affiliate, Epicentre, showed how rapid, mass vaccinations can reduce the toll inflicted by measles epidemics in Africa. "The fact that the WHO does not promote vaccination campaigns during an epidemic only hinders an effective emergency response," said epidemiologist Rebecca Grais.	November 15, 2006
Sleeping Sickness: The need for new treatement and diagnostics Preliminary results from a study conducted by Doctors Without Borders(MSF) show that significantly shorter and simplified treatment of African sleeping sickness could be possible in the near future.	November 15, 2006
Untangling the Web of Price Reductions: A Pricing Guide for the Purchase of ARV's in Developing Countries The purpose of this document is to provide information on prices and suppliers that will help purchasers make informed decisions when buying antiretrovirals (ARVs). This report is a pricing guide and does not include detailed information about the quality of the products listed.	August 13, 2006
Food, nutrition and mortality situation of IDPs in Dubie, Katanga, March 2006	March 30, 2006
Niger: What to do next? In 2005, MSF teams admitted more than 63,000 children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition to their therapeutic feeding programs in five regions of Niger. This is a chronic emergency situation for which there is a simple, effective answer that targets acute malnutrition.	February 12, 2006
2005
Top Ten Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2005	December 31, 2005
Access to Healthcare; Mortality and Violence in Democratic Republic of Congo	November 14, 2005
Nothing New in Ituri: The Violence Continues	August 10, 2005
Untangling the Web of Price Reductions: A Pricing Guide For the Purchase of ARVs in Developing Countries	June 28, 2005
MSF Pediatric AIDS Fact Sheet	June 21, 2005
Running Out of Breath? TB Care in the 21st Century	March 15, 2005
2004
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2004	December 30, 2004
The Trauma of ongoing War in Chechnya	August 10, 2004
EMERGENCY IN DARFUR, SUDAN: No relief in sight	June 24, 2004
Health Assessment in Emergencies: Murnei and Zelengei, West Darfur, Sudan	June 15, 2004
ACCESS TO MEDICINES AT RISK ACROSS THE GLOBE: What to Watch Out For in Free Trade Agreements with the United States	May 10, 2004
Access to health care in Burundi: Results of Three Epidemiological Surveys	April 15, 2004
"I Have No Joy, No Peace of Mind": Medical, Psychosocial an Socio-Economic Consequences of Sexual Violence in Eastern DRC	April 6, 2004
2003
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2003	December 31, 2003
Untangling the Web of Price Reductions: pricing guide for the purchase of ARVs for developing countries	December 1, 2003
DOHA Derailed: A Progress Report on TRIPS and Access to Medicines	August 15, 2003
Trading Away Health: Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Agreement	August 1, 2003
On ne négocie pas la santé : La propriété intellectuelle et l'accès aux médicaments	August 1, 2003
Negociando Con La Salud: El Acuerdo Sobre la Propiedad Intelectual y el Acceso a Medicamentos en el Area de Libre Comercio de las Americas (ALCA)	August 1, 2003
"Ca va un peu, maintenant," The collapse of healthcare, malnutrition, violence and displacement in western Ivory Coast.	July 25, 2003
Ituri: Unkept Promises? A Pretense of Protection and Inadequate Assistance	July 25, 2003
Highlights of "Drug Patents Under the Spotlight," a new MSF report released at the WHA 56, Geneva	May 22, 2003
ACT NOW to Get Malaria Treatment That Works to Africa Implementation of new malaria recommendations is a matter of life and death in Africa, where malaria kills between 1 and 2 million people each year.	April 10, 2003
Left Without a Choice: Chechens Forced to Return to Chechnya	April 1, 2003
Surmounting Challenges: Procurement of Antiretroviral Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries	March 5, 2003
2002
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2002	December 31, 2002
Abkhazia: Old and Frail in the Shadow of the Embargo Abkhazia is a Causasian territory on the shores of the Black Sea. Ravaged by war ten years ago, the embargo imposed by Russia and Georgia continues ever since.	December 10, 2002
DR Congo: Ten years of violence, conflict and human suffering (Part 1)	December 10, 2002
DR Congo: Ten years of violence, conflict and human suffering (Part 2)	December 10, 2002
Double Standards and Neglect: The Story of Meningitis Vaccines	November 6, 2002
Angola: Sacrifice of a People	October 20, 2002
Angola: After the War, Abandonment	August 10, 2002
Palestinian Chronicles: Trapped by War	July 10, 2002
From Durban to Barcelona: Overcoming the Treatment Deficit	July 10, 2002
Ten Years of Work With Moscow's Homeless	May 23, 2002
Populations Affected by War in the Mano River Region of West Africa: Issues of Protection	May 1, 2002
Violence, Health and Access to Aid in Unity State, Western Upper Nile, Sudan	April 12, 2002
Srebrenica: Questions for the Future	April 4, 2002
10 Years for the Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Past, Present and Future	March 10, 2002
Chechnya/Ingushetia: A Deliberate Strategy of Non-Assistance to People in Crisis	February 15, 2002
2001
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2001	December 31, 2001
Treating HIV/AIDS in Malawi	December 18, 2001
Testimonies from Northern Afghanistan	December 5, 2001
Confronting Catastrophe in the Democratic Republic of Congo	November 20, 2001
A Matter of Life and Death: The Role of Patents in Access to Essential Medicines	November 15, 2001
Fatal Imbalance: The Crisis in Research and Development for Drugs for Neglected Diseases	September 2, 2001
Fatal Imbalance: The Crisis in Research and Development for Drugs for Neglected Diseases (Short Version)	September 2, 2001
Angola: Negligence by Warring Parties Contributes Significantly to Humanitarian Emergencies	June 2, 2001
World TB Day 2001	March 25, 2001
Palestinian Chronicle: Testimony gathered by MSF medical and psychological teams working in the Palestinian Territories	January 25, 2001
2000
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 2000	December 31, 2000
Chechnya: The Politics of Terror	November 22, 2000
Angola - Behind the Facade of 'Normalization'	November 9, 2000
Assessing Trauma in Sierra Leone	January 11, 2000
1999
Chechnya: The Tracking of Civilians	December 15, 1999
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 1999	December 15, 1999
Kosovo: Accounts of Deportation	December 10, 1999
Congo-Brazzaville: Chronicle of a Forgotten War	October 1, 1999
Rapid Needs Assessment Among Kosovar Refugees Hosted by Albanian Families and Assessment of Human Rights Violations Committed in Kosovo	April 29, 1999
1998
Top 10 Most Underreported Humanitarian Stories of 1998	December 31, 1998
Testimonies from MSF Volunteers About the Hurricane Mitch Relief Effort	November 11, 1998
North Korea: Testimonies of Famine	August 1, 1998
Southern Sudan: Testimonies of a Human Tragedy (Part 2)	August 1, 1998
Southern Sudan: Testimonies of a Human Tragedy (Part 1)	June 1, 1998
1997
Sleeping Sickness	August 1, 1997
Living in a Minefield: The Landmine Problem in Afghanistan	May 1, 1997
1996
Civilians Targeted - Humanitarian Law Flouted in Chechnya	April 19, 1996
1995
Deadlock in the Rwandan Refugee Crisis: Repatriation Virtually at a Standstill	July 20, 1995
1994
Breaking the Cycle: Calls for Action in the Rwandese Refugee Camps in Tanzania and Zaire	November 10, 1994

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