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In 2015, we’re asking Sanofi Pasteur to ensure their snake venom antidote is made available again. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, we’re asking drug companies to bring down prices to affordable levels in ALL developing countries, so more people can be treated. Keep up-to-date with what we’re doing on this in 2015. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In, 2015, we’re asking you to join the campaign to Fix the Patent Laws, so generic medicines are available to everyone. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, we ask for support for our ‘3P’ project that offers new ideas and incentives to develop urgently needed drugs and regimens for TB. Watch this space. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, we are asking the EU to grant safe passage through Europe for generic medicines that are so critical to our work. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, we’re asking for a rapid, accurate and affordable TB test to better diagnose kids, and for the roll-out of a new, easier-to-use combination pill. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, join us in urging India to stand strong in the face of U.S. pressure to roll back policies designed to protect public health and promote access to affordable generic medicines. Together, let’s make sure that no moves are made that could harm the ‘Pharmacy of the Developing World’. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, we’re asking for wider access to routine viral load monitoring with the goal of having 72% of people living with HIV with an undetectable viral load. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, we’re asking drug companiesto register their new TB drugs with the authorities in as many countries as possible, so that they can be made available to people who need them. http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, we’re asking vaccine makers to sell us their new vaccines at the lowest global price, so we can protect more vulnerable children. Will you help us get hold of them? http://ow.ly/G38a8
In 2015, our wish is for at least one safe and effective Ebola treatment and at least one safe and effective vaccine: http://ow.ly/G38a8
MSF Field Report: Decreasing Child Mortality in South Sudan
Patients I’ll Never Forget
While working in Batil Refugee camp setting up an inpatient therapeutic feeding center, Dr. Jacoby met several patients that she’ll never forget. One of her first patients was a young boy with multiple bee stings to his head. He was in good humor and basically ok, but was starving for food to eat. When food was scarce, young boys, like “Bee Boy,” would climb trees to get honey from beehives for their families to eat.
Another one of her patients, Aziza, was severely malnourished and almost died multiple times a day for the first week. She would go into shock, because she was suffering from lots of infections that were difficult to treat. “We had to be really careful with Aziza, because malnourished kids lose so much muscle, and a lot of the muscle they lose is in their heart. If you give them too much fluid, they go into heart failure. So we sat with Aziza and we gave her small amounts of fluid, and then we’d recheck her heart rate every 15-20 minutes,” says Dr. Jacoby.
By the end of Dr. Jacoby’s stay in the Batil camp, Aziza was sitting up and even smiling a little bit. She would only cry when she was hungry. A couple of weeks later, Aziza finally went home.
MSF Field Report: Decreasing Child Mortality in South Sudan
A Crazy First Day
On Dr. Jacoby’s first day in Batil refugee camp, she didn’t even make it into the section of the clinic that constituted the therapeutic feeding center. There were so many people in need of immediate care, so she immediately began to help out the nurse that ran the outpatient department.
“There were far more sick people in Batil than you ever expect to see in one place. They were incredibly fragile, and throughout the camp there was just a massive amount of medical needs– respiratory infections, diarrhea, severe dehydration, malnutrition, and malari,” recounts Dr. Jacoby on her ‘crazy first day.’