MEDSF Japan

G7 fail to address the biggest threats to global health

Fri, 27 May 2016 13:45:30 +0000

MEDSF is disappointed that the solutions proposed by the G7 will not address these failures head-on, and the barriers to access to affordable medicines which they create. "The laudable aim of universal health coverage is going to be severely hamstrung without investing in approaches to research and development that encourage patients’ needs-based innovation and are not dictated by the perspective of high market profit," said Jeremie Bodin, General Director of MEDSF Japan.

Japan: “People have to continue living in shelters for a while”

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:02:30 +0000

Interview with Dr. Sonoko Sidehara, project coordinator for Kumamoto Quake emergency response

Japan: MEDSF starts medical activities in the area of Minami-aso after Kumamoto Quake

Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:16:28 +0000

Médecins Sans Frontières (MEDSF) team travelled to Kumamoto prefecture on 17 April, and identified a severe lack of basic healthcare in Minami-aso village because houses and medical facilities there were severely damaged and people are living in shelters since 14 April. The MEDSF team working in the area hit by the Kumamoto earthquake is made up of three doctors, three nurses, a pharmacist, a psychologist, a logistician and an administrator.

Access: Developing countries hit with high price for important new tuberculosis drug

Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:15:05 +0000

More than two years after drug approved, only 180 people globally have received it

There’s still time to stop the TPP from cutting off the critical lifeline of affordable generic medicines

Wed, 03 Feb 2016 08:42:28 +0000

"The fight to stop this irresponsible trade deal from going into effect is far from over,” said Judit Rius Sanjuan, MEDSF’s US Access Campaign manager and legal policy advisor. “The TPP deal being signed today is the worst trade deal ever for access to medicines and will make life-saving treatments unaffordable for those who need them most."

TPP negotiators must fix the most damaging trade agreement ever for global health

Thu, 23 Jul 2015 07:54:06 +0000

“The U.S. has abandoned its previous commitments to protect health in its trade policy,” said Judit Rius, U.S. Manager and Policy Advisor for MEDSF’s Access Campaign. “The TPP is a precedent-setting blueprint for future trade deals that will deny countries their right to balance business interests with the public health needs of people – a right that is ingrained in international trade rules. This week might be the last chance negotiators have to mitigate some of the potential devastation of the TPP. We ask government negotiators to protect access to medicines and fix the most damaging provisions in the TPP.”

MEDSF continues psychological care for earthquake and tsunami survivors

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

“Most people lost everything in the disaster, including family, colleagues and friends, and the future is difficult to imagine,” said Ha Young Lee – a Korean psychologist that has worked with MEDSF in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami in Banda Aceh in 2005, as well as with North Korean refugees in Seoul.

Japan Earthquake: 'The people around me in Kenya saw it as an event in another world, but for me it was my problem'

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Interview with Shintaro Hayashi, a general practitioner and a specialist in gastroenterology, who recently returned from a two-week mission in the area of northeast Japan that has been devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

MEDSF psychologists work with quake and tsunami survivors in Japan

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

While running the mobile clinics an assessment determined that, while health needs were largely being met by national actors, psychological assistance was an area in which MEDSF could offer increased assistance.

MEDSF works with psychologists in aftermath of Japanese quake

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

“Many people now are in a phase of acute stress disorder, which is a totally natural response to this level of trauma,” said Ritsuko Nishimae, a clinical psychologist working with the MEDSF team in Minami Sanriku.