MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières [to 13 June 2015]
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/press/press-releases

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Press release
MSF Launches Global Campaign Urging India to Protect Access to Affordable Medicines
June 12, 2015
New Delhi/Geneva—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today launched a global campaign urging Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stand strong in the face of intensifying multinational pressure to change India’s laws and policies that would severely restrict production of affordable medicines, upon which millions of people around the world depend.

Press release
TPP Trade Deal Moves Toward Completion, Threatening Access to Medicines for Millions
June 12, 2015
Damaging Health Provisions Must be Removed Immediately

Press release
Yemen: More than 100 Injured in Shelling of Aden Residential Area
June 11, 2015
ADEN, YEMEN—Amid ongoing shelling in the Yemeni port city of Aden, hospitals are overwhelmed as civilians come under increasing fire, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which treated more than 100 people injured in shelling yesterday.

Press release
Iraq: Millions of Displaced Face Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Decades
June 08, 2015
GENEVA/NEW YORK—Intense fighting has forced almost three million people to flee war-torn areas of central and northern Iraq in the last year, and many are now stranded in areas without the most basic humanitarian assistance, the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today.

Field News
In Memoriam: Sandeep Mahat, Jessica Wilford, and Sher Behadur Karki
June 12, 2015
On Tuesday, June 2, three of our colleagues lost their lives in a helicopter crash in Nepal. Sandeep Mahat, Jessica Wilford, and Sher Bahadur Karki (Raj) were flying back to Kathmandu after delivering much-needed medical and humanitarian assistance to earthquake-affected villages in Sindhupalchowk district when the accident occurred. We miss them all tremendously.

Field news
Q&A on the Consequences of Unsafe Abortion
June 10, 2015
Unsafe abortion is one of the top four causes of maternal mortality, along with hemorrhage, sepsis and hypertensive disorder.

Field news
Ivory Coast: A Maternity Unit for Emergency Care
June 10, 2015
In Ivory Coast, years of instability have severely weakened health services and led to a lack of both facilities and trained staff. The dearth of options available to expectant mothers and their babies has resulted in particularly high levels of maternal mortality. In July 2014, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)—already working in maternity units in Duékoué and Abobo—opened a program to care for pregnant women and newborns at Katiola Regional Hospital Center (RHC), north of Bouaké.

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NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS–USA
NEW YORK, JUNE 3, 2015 – The US section of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today announced the appointment of Mr. Jason Cone as its new executive director.

Mr. Cone, who officially began his new tenure on June 1, has an extensive background in crisis and advocacy communications. He assumes leadership of MSF-USA following 11 years with the organization, the last six-and-a-half as communications director.

In his former role, he oversaw emergency and advocacy communications campaigns on issues ranging from the West African Ebola outbreak and Haiti earthquake and cholera epidemic, to global childhood malnutrition and HIV/AIDS. He returned last month from meeting with MSF field teams, diplomats, and journalists while visiting MSF’s surgical and mental health programs in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and its medical programs for war-affected Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey…

Mr. Cone replaces Sophie Delaunay, with whom he has worked for the past six years. Ms. Delaunay led MSF-USA through a period of incredible growth of the organization. Fundraising for field programs grew from $144 million in 2009 to $347 million in 2014 under her stewardship. She also helped stabilize MSF-USA through the 2009 financial crisis, which greatly impacted the non-profit sector, and led the organization during major humanitarian emergencies in the Central African Republic, Haiti, South Sudan, and, most recently, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. She departs MSF after 22 years working with the organization, both in the field and in headquarters….