MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières [to 12 March 2016]

MSF/Médecins Sans Frontières [to 12 March 2016]
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/press/press-releases

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Press Releases
Senate HELP Committee Fails to Fix Flawed PRV Program Intended to Promote Innovation for Neglected Diseases
March 09, 2016
New York— A Senate committee voted today to add Zika to the list of diseases eligible for the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA) Priority Review Voucher (PRV) program for neglected diseases, but did not fix major loopholes that make the PRV program for neglected diseases ripe for abuse by pharmaceutical companies.
Press Releases

European Union and Turkey Reach Inhumane Agreement on Refugees
March 08, 2016
In response to an agreement announced today between the European Union and Turkey on refugees and migration, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released the following statement from Aurelie Ponthieu, MSF humanitarian affairs advisor on displacement:
“European leaders have completely lost track of reality, and the deal currently being negotiated between the EU and Turkey is one of the clearest examples of their cynicism. For each refugee that will risk their life at sea and will be summarily sent back to Turkey, another one may have the chance to reach Europe from Turkey under a proposed resettlement scheme. This crude calculation reduces people to mere numbers, denying them humane treatment and discarding their right to seek protection…

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Field News
CAR: Calm Returns to Carnot, But Many Remain Displaced
March 07, 2016
Despite a return to calm, the situation in Central African Republic (CAR) remains unstable and over 450,000 people are still displaced within the country. At the Catholic Church in Carnot, a town in western CAR, the displaced are gradually moving out of what has become an enclave.