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Obama's Trade Position Panned By U.N. For Protecting High Drug Prices

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 06.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Two major United Nations organizations warned world leaders on Thursday to avoid restrictive free trade agreements that may threaten pub...

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Obama Administration Softens 'Shameful' Fight Against Cheap Drugs For Poor Countries

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012

WASHINGTON -- A change of heart from the Obama administration may pave the way to a groundbreaking global deal to provide lifesaving medications to de...

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Obama Administration Says 'No' To Global Health Fund For Developing Nations

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...

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An Idea To Fix Killer Costs Of Lifesaving Drugs

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.19.2012

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is promoting a new plan to encourage the development of better, cheaper prescription drugs: an innovation fu...

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71-Year-Old Surgeon Smuggles Himself Into Syria To Save Lives

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 05.13.2012

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GENEVA -- French surgeon Jacques Beres has operated in war zones for 40 years, but he says the carnage in Syria is among the most horrific he has ever...

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Regime Uses Medicine As A Weapon, Doctors Without Borders Reports

Posted 02.08.2012

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When a 29-year-old cameraman was shot in the hand during an attack by Syrian security forces, he did not go to the hospital. The pain was unbearable, ...

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Nairobi Cuts Funding For AIDS Organizations

Voice of America | Posted 01.31.2012

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Several-hundred people gathered in the Kenyan capital Monday to protest funding cuts made by the decade-old The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosi...

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Medical Group Quits Libyan Prisons After Being Asked To Treat Torture Victims

Reuters | Posted 03.27.2012

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Libya: Doctors Without Borders Asked To Treat Torture Victims In Misrata

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Foreign Doctors Without Borders Workers Die In Somalia Attack

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 02.29.2012

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NAIROBI, Kenya — A second foreigner working with Doctors Without Borders died of his wounds in an attack in Somalia that also killed the group's...

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2 Doctors Without Borders Workers Shot By Disgruntled Former Employee

AP | FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH | Posted 02.28.2012

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MOGADISHU, Somalia — A disgruntled former employee shot at least two international workers from the aid group Doctors Without Borders at the gro...

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Reports: Haiti Sees Drop In Cholera Cases

AP | TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 02.20.2012

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti has seen a steady decline in the number of cholera cases as the Caribbean nation settles into its dry season, huma...

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The Human Cost Of Cutting Global Health Funding

Matthew Spitzer | Posted 01.17.2012

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There could not be a worse time to pull back from long-standing American commitments to the health of people around the world, which is exactly what t...

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Gunmen Kidnap Two Doctors Without Borders Workers

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 10.14.2011

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Suspected Somali militants entered the world's largest refugee camp Thursday and abducted two Spanish women working with an aid...

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Aid Group: Cholera Cases In Haiti Triple

AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 12.11.2011

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By TRENTON DANIEL, Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The number of cholera cases seen in the Haitian capital has jumped about threefold in ...

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Haiti's Capital Sees Threefold Jump In Cholera

AP | By TRENTON DANIEL | Posted 12.10.2011

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The number of cholera cases seen in the Haitian capital has jumped about threefold in recent weeks, an official with a foreig...

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Somalia: History, Humanity and Hope

Tomekia Lynn Strickland, M.D. | Posted 11.21.2011

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Learning of the famine in Somalia left me searching for a better understanding as to how the famine developed and how mass starvation could still exist in modern society.

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Shooting Itself In the Foot: The Broken Promises of the U.S. Trade Agenda

Tido von Schoen-Angerer | Posted 11.14.2011

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In the Chicago trade talks, the U.S. is trying to club up with countries in a deal that keeps the cost of medicines high.

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Doctors Without Borders: Aid Groups Must Admit Much Of Somalia Can't Be Helped

The Guardian | Posted 11.04.2011

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The head of an international medical charity has called on aid agencies to stop presenting a misleading picture of the famine in Somalia and admit tha...

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Bahrain Admits Raid On Offices Of International Medical Group

AP | By ADAM SCHRECK | Posted 10.04.2011

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Responding to criticism from Medecins Sans Frontieres, Bahrain said Thursday that police last week raided a medical cen...

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Maple Wars: America Home to Millions of Undocumented Canadians

Tony Phillips | Posted 10.02.2011

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MISSOULA, MONTANA - There is a hidden America. In this nation of plenty in which fly the banners of so many a proud heritage, a country rich in variet...

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ABC's David Muir On Somalia Famine: 'It's Heartbreaking'

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Fung | Posted 09.27.2011

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The famine in Somalia has only gotten worse with each passing day. The United Nations is calling it the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world...

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Tragedies Like Japan Spawn Charity Crimes

Diane Dimond | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's not too late to give to charities serving the victims in Japan - Just give C-A-R-E-F-U-L-L-Y, please. Another tragedy born of Mot...

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Doctor's Daily Blog On Sudan Brings Country's Struggles Home

Christal Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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It seems like the perfect time to publish this interview with a doctor/writer/activist who spent six months in Abyei with Doctors Without Borders.

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EU & India: Trade Deal Risks Depriving Millions of Affordable Medicines

Louis Belanger | Posted 05.25.2011

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The EU is forcing India to act against the health of poor people in developing countries by pushing through a trade deal next week that contains tou...

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Christians And Atheists Square Off In Online Battle To Raise Money For Charity

Posted 05.26.2011

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By Piet Levy Religion News Service Christians and atheists are fighting again -- this time over who can raise more money for charity. The Christian...

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