December 2011
46 posts
Thank you.
From the conflict in South Sudan, to the ongoing cholera outbreak in Haiti, to civil war in Libya, 2011 was a year marked by crisis. Thank you for following our work here on Tumblr, your reblogs raise awareness for the victims of violence, drought, epidemics and other medical humanitarian emergencies.
We appreciate your support.
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MSF Shocked And Deeply Saddened By The Killing Of... →
It is with great sadness that the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) confirms that two of its staff members were killed Thursday morning as a result of a shooting at the MSF compound in Mogadishu, Somalia.
While one of the aid workers died during the shooting, the other was transferred to a hospital and died following surgery...
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MSF turns 40: Executive Director Marc Dubois blogs... →
“It is now, in middle age, that we acquire the maturity to accept what has always been true: it is ridiculous to expect governments, rebel groups, insurgents, criminal syndicates or national armies to adopt the benevolent positioning of a charitable organisation, and that the abuse of humanitarian aid is an enduring and inevitable component of the landscape in which we operate. Of course, we...
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“In my work with MSF, I have seen people die from AIDS, from TB, and from...”
– Unni Karunakara, international president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), in his call for a Global Fund conference to commit to funding the fight against HIV, TB, and malaria
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Thank you to everyone for helping us reach our goal of 8,000 emails to tell Johnson & Johnson to stop turning its back on AIDS patients.
Now we’re trying for 9,000+ emails. Keep spreading the word so that by Monday, December 19, when pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is expected to announce whether it intends to license its patents on three lifesaving HIV/AIDS drugs to the...
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“A health system torn apart by years of political and military instability, major...”
– - Olivier Aubry, MSF head of mission in Central African Republic.
Read more about CAR and how the country is in a “state of health emergency.”
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“There’s a huge sense of shock and dismay within the organization that the Global...”
– - MSF International President Dr. Unni Karunakara, about MSF’s response to the funding crisis and what needs to be done.
Please join our call to save millions of lives by asking Congress to fully fund PEPFAR and the Global Fund by sending a letter to your members of Congress today.
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“Not only is [treatment] the right thing to do, it’s also the smart thing...”
– Sharonann Lynch, MSF HIV policy adviser, in Nature on the importance of continuing funding HIV/AIDS research and treatment
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“A real positive is my weight. I am now 63 kg, as of yesterday. When I...”
– - Churchill Opera, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patient and TB&ME blogger in Uganda
TB&ME is a collaborative blogging project by patients being treated for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in locations all around the world. They are writing about their experiences of living...
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“When we had 45 war-wounded patients in one day, we thought it was the maximum....”
– Thierry Goffeau, MSF’s head of mission for Somalia Read more in the 2010 Annual Report
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“Although foreign-aid spending represents about 1 percent of the federal budget,...”
– Christine Leon, working in Mozambique with MSF, writes in the Orlando Sentinel about how foreign aid funding is vital in the global battle against AIDS
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“Let’s not shoot the wheels off the ambulance just as we are beginning to see the...”
– MSF International President Dr. Unni Karunakara on MSF’s response to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria funding crisis and what needs to be done
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“If ministries of health do not receive stable and predictable funding, there is...”
– MSF International President Dr. Unni Karunakara on MSF’s response to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria funding crisis and what needs to be done
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“There’s a huge sense of shock and dismay within the organization that the Global...”
– MSF International President Dr. Unni Karunakara on MSF’s response to the funding crisis and what needs to be done
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“This commitment today is the shot in the arm that the global HIV/AIDS response...”
– Dr. Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Executive Director, Médecins Sans Frontières Access Campaign, on President Obama’s speech on World AIDS Day, committing to reach two million more people with US-funded HIV treatment by the end of 2013 (totaling nearly 6 million people on treatment under US funding).
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