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A school group peers into a makeshift shelter at our #forcedfromhome Queens pop-up refugee exhibit–just one of the topics our experienced field workers guide visitors through. Next up: Battery Park in Manhattan. Photo: Edwin Torres

http://www.forcedfromhome.com/

“I’m a retired software engineer, a long-term supporter of Doctors Without Borders, dating back to the 1990s. I have worked in biomedical research and am very concerned about how tremendous advances in disease prevention and treatment are currently not available to people in developing countries because corporations charge too much for key medicines and vaccines. The pneumonia vaccine could save millions of lives if made available to developing countries and humanitarian organizations.”

Thank you, Pete, and the 80+ New Yorkers who participated in our live stunt to deliver over 400,000 petition signatures to Pfizer, asking they lower the price of the pneumonia vaccine to $5 a child. #AskPharma 

View the stunt here: https://youtu.be/W_0hiui77-M

We need volunteers to participate in a live #AskPharma stunt in New York City! If you’re available Wednesday morning, please sign up here: http://www.afairshot.org/volunteer

Can’t wait to meet you in person- not in NYC? You can still help by signing the petition at http://www.afairshot.org/ asking Pfizer and GSK to lower the price of the pneumonia vaccine – Let’s give all kids a Fair Shot! 

Passing the iconic Flatiron building, our #IncredibleIndia mobile billboard is turning New York heads as we message Indian prime minister Modi to stand strong and protect affordable medicines produced in India. Learn more at handsoff.msf.org #HandsOffOurMeds 

Spotted: MSF on the streets of Manhattan- urging Indian Prime Minister Modi to protect affordable medicines http://bit.ly/1MB3OiI

Photo: Earl, aka “Zoom” holding a balloon he made for MSF.

Thank you for sending a message of hope to our staff in the field and to all the patients we work with!

Photo: MSF set up an emergency clinic in Far Rockaway, NY, for Hurricane Sandy relief. © Michael Goldfarb/MSF

Far Rockaway: Global Disaster Zone 
(originally posted on Outside)

Days after Hurricane Sandy hit New York, vast relief effort led by city, state, and federal agencies was under way, but the affected area was so widespread that many people, particularly along the poorer, low-lying margins of the city, felt forgotten and abandoned by their government. MSF set up an emergency clinic with a volunteer staff of a dozen or so doctors, nurses, and assorted health professionals. A folding table was piled high with medical supplies, and a sheet strung up in a corner created a makeshift private screening area. An empty Starbucks jug doubled as an ad hoc sharps disposal container. Misha Friedman, a Moldovan photographer in his thirties with a shaved head—a veteran of Doctors Without Borders missions from Sudan to Uzbekistan—was briefing a pair of volunteers about the dire health situation faced by 800 senior residents in a nearby housing complex who had had no running water or electricity for a week.

“No one’s been evacuated,” he told me. “There is no evacuation. Doctors have been flooded out, pharmacies have been closed. Some patients are on dozens of medications, and they kind of fall off the grid.”

Wednesday, Doctors Without Borders joined other demonstrators to protest outside the New York offices of the pharmaceutical company Novartis. The protest was against an attack on India’s patent law by Novartis, a case currently before India’s Supreme Court.

If Novartis wins, the production of life-saving generic medicines – including important anti-retroviral drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS – could be adversely affected.

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Photo: 2012 © Michael Goldfarb

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is proud to have been chosen as a participating charity in the 2012 TD Five Boro Bike Tour. Riders will raise funds to support our medical programs in more than 65 countries around the world. Come ride with us!

On Sunday, May 6, 2012, more than 32,000 cyclists will participate in America’s largest cycling event. A traffic-free, 40-mile bike tour across New York City’s five boroughs.

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How to Register As an MSF Team Rider:

Email your MSF Registration Form to NYBikeTour@newyork.msf.org or fax it to (212) 679-7016

Please carefully read the terms of the fundraising commitment you will be making when you register. There are 80 charity entries available and they will be granted on a first come, first served basis.

MSF will confirm your registration, provide you with information to set up your personal fundraising page, and send you the fundraising kit to get started—it’s that easy!
If you already have an entry to the 2012 Five Boro Bike Tour through the lottery you can still fundraise with Team MSF! Commit to raising a minimum donation of $500 and you can join the team and receive a cycling shirt, water bottle, fundraising kit and personal fundraising page.
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Check out more information here.

Please email NYBikeTour@newyork.msf.org for more information.