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Double victims: In conflict zones, people with HIV/AIDS are twice as vulnerable

December 01, 2014

Today is World AIDS Day. In the editorial below, Cecilia Ferreyra, an HIV/tuberculosis advisor with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), describes how people who live in areas affected by conflict can be doubly at risk when infected with HIV.

 

By Cecilia Ferreyra
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Ebola: The failure of the international response to the outbreak

August 29, 2014

This op-ed, by Bruno Jochum and Dr. Thomas Nierle was first published on August 27 in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps.
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'Meaningful action is needed': MSF International President Dr. Joanne Liu on Ebola

August 22, 2014

This editorial by MSF International President Dr. Joanne Liu was originally published in TIME Magazine on August 21, 2014. 

Entire families are being wiped out. Health workers are dying by the dozens. The Ebola outbreak raging in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has already killed more people than any other in history, and it continues to spread unabated.
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Avoiding a dangerously simplistic approach to humanitarian aid

August 18, 2014
By Clémentine Olivier, humanitarian affairs advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Canada.
 
Originally published in the Ottawa Citizen, August 18, 2014
 
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'A job on this scale requires a coordinated global response': Stephen Cornish on Ebola

August 07, 2014

By Stephen Cornish, Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Canada
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How can we fix the international humanitarian system? The answer starts at home

July 09, 2014

By Stephen Cornish, Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Canada
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) could be a blow to public health

July 07, 2014
By Stephen Cornish, Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Canada
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South Sudan: 'We Are All Displaced Now'

May 19, 2014

By Nicole Johnston, Communications Coordinator, Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Originally published in the Huffington Post, May 16, 2014
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In the Central African Republic, a new kind of violence needs new action

February 11, 2014

Civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR) find themselves at the centre of a humanitarian catastrophe spiraling out of control. The effect of indiscriminate and seemingly unstoppable violence on the entire population has reached shocking levels, and has taken on deeply disturbing inter-communal overtones. Current efforts by the international community are woefully insufficient in the face of this mounting crisis.