Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
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Big Pharma 'Overcharging' Poor Countries For Child Vaccines - Report
Doctors Without Borders has released a new report blasting two top pharmaceutical companies for inflated costs of vital vaccines that have proved too steep for poor nations, recommending they adjust prices in order to save lives...
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Cuba’s Ebola Diplomacy
Even in this age of international coalitions, the one arrayed against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is impressive. In September, more than a hundred and thirty nations voted in favor of a United Nations Security Council resolution declaring the virus, which is rampant in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, a threat to international security and creating the U.N. Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, or UNMEER, devoted to fighting the virus...
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Five Humanitarian Crises Largely Overlooked in 2015
From civil war and urban gang violence to drought, some humanitarian crises around the world receive less media attention and donor funding than others and are less visible. Below are the top five humanitarian crises of 2015, in no particular order, which aid agencies say deserve more attention on the world stage: Rampant gang violence, poverty and the lack of jobs push hundreds of people a month to leave the 'Northern Triangle' nations of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and seek work and refuge in the United States and other Latin American countries...
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New Smartphone App Promises Easy Eye Testing Worldwide
The team behind a smartphone-based portable eye examination kit have just launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for new innovation...
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‘Entire Villages Disappeared’: Ebola Deaths In Sierra Leone ‘Underreported’
Ebola’s toll on Sierra Leone is much greater than previously thought, with entire villages killed off by the virus. This means up to 20,000 people could have succumbed to the disease by now, a senior coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) believes...
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