Reports

Giving developing countries the best shot: An overview of vaccine access and R&D
11th April, 2010

MSF and Oxfam show how access to newer vaccines and the development of products for developing countries is faltering and failing to provide life-saving vaccines to children in developing countries.

Turkmenistan's Opaque Health System

12th April, 2010

The people of Turkmenistan are being failed by their healthcare system, by their government, and by the international community. The system that is supposed to ensure their health is instead designed to conceal problems. This is not a case of individual practitioners failing to do their jobs but one that is far more systematic.

Sexual violence and migration
25th March, 2010

This briefing paper highlights the problem of sexual violence against Sub-Saharan migrant women, who arrive in Morocco on their way to Europe. Through the data and testimonies gathered in its medical-humanitarian projects, Médecins Sans Frontières hopes to contribute to finding a comprehensive answer to this problem, which increasingly affects more, and younger, women.

HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries: The battle for long-term survival has just begun
20th July, 2009

Over three million people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world receive antiretroviral treatment. However, the medicines and diagnostic tools available are inadequate to respond fully to their needs. It is now time to invest in improving the public health approach.

Shattered lives: Immediate medical care for victims of sexual violence
12th July, 2009

Through this report MSF shares its experience in providing medical care, counseling and other forms of support to thousands of victims of sexual violence in many countries around the world. MSF hopes it will inform and inspire health officials, aid workers and others who should be involved in providing such support.

Chagas: It's time to break the silence
7th July, 2009

One hundred years since its discovery, many of those infected with Chagas disease are still unaware that they are sick. For one hundred years, Chagas disease has been a silent illness. The time has come to break the silence.

No refuge, access denied: Medical and humanitarian needs of Zimbabweans in South Africa
2nd June, 2009

This report highlights the plight of Zimbabweans seeking refuge in South Africa, the appalling conditions in which they live and their ongoing lack of adequate protection, shelter and basic services, particularly healthcare, in South Africa.

Hidden behind barbed wire: Plight of Hmong refugees held in detention camp in northern Thailand ignored amid ongoing deportations to Laos
20th May, 2009

Over the past four months, the Thai military has used heightened restrictions and coercive tactics to pressure some 4,700 ethnic Lao Hmong refugees to renounce their claims for protection and accept a forced return to Laos.

Tuberculosis: New faces of an old disease
23rd March, 2009

TB is a deadly killer, responsible for 1.7 million deaths in 2006. The vast majority of cases occur in developing countries. Worse, this ‘disease of the past’ has returned with new faces that are stretching our capacities to breaking point.

"No food or medicines here until you die": MSF exposes emergency nutritional and medical needs in Guinean prisons
23rd February, 2009

Based on observations from our work in Guéckédou and beyond, MSF concludes that the appalling conditions observed in Guéckédou prison are unfortunately not an isolated case.

Beyond cholera: Zimbabwe's worsening crisis
17th February, 2009

This report discusses the worsening health crisis emerging in Zimbabwe in the wake of the country's political and economic breakdown.

One crisis may hide another: Food price crises masked deadly childhood nutrition
23rd January, 2009

This report looks at what has been achieved since the establishment in April 2008 of a Task Force on the Global Food Security Crisis, composed of the heads of the UN specialised agencies, funds and programmes, the IMF and World Bank.

Starved for attention: Wake up to the crisis of malnutrition
18th December, 2008

Without access to a wide range of essential nutrients, nine children will continue to die every minute of causes related to malnutrition. MSF calls for food aid to change and for a nutrient rich diet to be made available to children to save millions of lives.

A Preventable Fate: The Failure of ART Scale-Up in Myanmar
25th November, 2008

Thousands of people are needlessly dying due to a severe lack of lifesaving HIV/AIDS treatment in Myanmar. Unable to continue shouldering the primary responsibility for responding to one of Asia’s worst HIV crises, MSF insists that the government of Myanmar and other international organisations urgently and rapidly scale-up the provision of antiretroviral therapy.

Full Prescription: Better malaria treatment for more people, MSF’s experiemce
30th September, 2008

In a new report launched today, MSF said many more lives can be saved if newer effective strategies to tackle malaria are more widely implemented. The report describes the organisation’s work in Sierra Leone, Chad and Mali, and shows that unnecessary deaths can be avoided with simple, affordable treatment and diagnostic tools available today.

Running in place: Too many patients still in urgent need of HIV/AIDS treatment
3rd August, 2008

HIV/AIDS treatment and management are essential components of many MSF programs worldwide. Currently MSF provides antiretroviral therapy (ART) for over 140,000 patients in 27 countries, with about 10,000 of those patients being children. In conjunction with this year’s International AIDS Conference in Mexico City, this document presents MSF’s current “state of play” in providing quality care to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in resource-limited settings.

NO CHOICE: Somali and Ethiopian Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants Crossing The Gulf of Aden
26th June, 2008

Thousands of people risk their lives every year to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty.