Medecins Sans Frontieres

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). 2001. Fatal Imbalance The Crisis in Research and Development for Drugs for Neglected Diseases. Geneva MSF. Available at http //www.accessmed-msf.org/ documents/fatal imbalance 2001.pdf [Accessed December 14, 2005]. 

Piracy is a crime against humanity. Pirates steal and destroy wantonly. They rape and kill with abandon. Piracy is an inappropriate term for providing essential medicines to the world s poorest people. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) broke the law when it began offering anti-retroviral therapy (ART) in Khayelitsha Township in South Africa in 2001. The crime against humanity would have been a studied failure to act in the face of the AIDS crisis. 

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). 2005. Will the Lifeline of Affordable Medicines for Poor Countries be Cut Consequences of Medicines Patenting in India. External Briefing Document. Available at http //www.msf.fr/documents/base/2005-02-01-msf.pdf. 

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (CHLN), Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Canada, Oxfam Canada and Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development. 2003. Letter to Hon. Allan Rock, Minister of Industry. Letter, September 23. 

Laura Esmail is a doctoral student at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the use of compulsory licensing for the production and export of pharmaceuticals to developing countries. In 2005, she was a research intern for Medecins Sans Frontieres. 

James Orbinski is a research scientist and clinician at St. Michael s Hospital, Toronto, and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Political Science at the University of Toronto. He received his MD degree from McMaster University in 1990, and completed a Masters degree in international relations at the University of Toronto in 1998, before becoming international president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) from 1998 to 2001. His research interests are focused on access to healthcare, medicines, and other health technologies medical humanitarianism in war and social crisis, and global health policy. 

Guilloux, Alain, and Moon, Suerie, Hidden Price Tags Disease-Specific Drug Donations Costs and Alternatives, Medecins Sans Frontieres Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, 2000. 

In Kibera, some agencies such as Medecins Sans Frontieres provide vital medical care, but others appear to be briefcase NGOs set up to access funding but which exist only in name. Much of the help that does reach Kibera seems to address the symptoms of poverty rather than tackling the causes. 

Two important stakeholders opted to remain outside the cluster system. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in a policy paper in April 2007 challenged what it termed politicar strategies of coordination and integration of humanitarian actors in a global framework in which humanitarian action was structurally subordinated to political strategies (MSF 2007). 

Medecins Sans Frontieres (2007) MSF What Relation to the Aid System Medecins Sans Frontieres, April. 

Medecins Sans Frontieres (2003) Karakalpakstan A Population in Danger. The Impact of the Aral Sea Disaster and a Worsening Economic Climate on the Health and Wellbeing of the People of Karakalpakstan. Tashkent Medecins Sans Frontieres. 

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