25 avril 2013
Living conditions in Syria are worsening dramatically and the number of victims is increasing by the day. So far, more than 70,000 people have been killed, more than a million are refugees and more than 2 million have been internally displaced. Summary executions, civilian populations held (...)
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8 avril 2013
Access to healthcare in Europe in times of crisis and rising xenophobia
An overview of the situation of people excluded from healthcare systems
Our latest report presents some of the results of comparative data collected in 2012 in 14 cities across seven European countries.
This report covers (...)
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27 février 2013
photo Giorgos Moutafis : child in his father’s cemetery
The humanitarian situation in Syria is deteriorating by the day. And the violence being perpetrated against civilians is increasing. The pictures we are seeing on social networking sites are horrific, as are the stories being told by (...)
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12 février 2013
At about noon of February 7th 2013, around thirty members of far-right party Golden Dawn (possibly as part of a broader mobilization on their part) gathered outside Doctors of the World Clinic of Perama and remained there for a while, chanting their usual racist slogans of hatred. At the time, (...)
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27 August 2012
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"I swear that I will dedicate my medical knowledge to working for the health of Spanish and foreign people who have the appropriate documentation." "I swear that I will set aside my sense of what is ethical and moral for the (...)
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27 July 2012
Over the last decade, HIV drug prices have dropped dramatically, and access to antiretroviral therapy has significantly increased. It is time to apply the lessons from HIV/AIDS to hepatitis C virus (HCV). An estimated 170 million people have chronic hepatitis C. At least 350,000 of them die (...)
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26 July 2012
As new fighting has put the North Kivu province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at centre stage, there is little discussion of the health crisis faced by people living with HIV/AIDS in this country. The situation of the epidemic however is catastrophic. It is estimated that there are (...)
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7 June 2012
On 17th May 2012, the Congress of the members of Parliament approved a law on access to health coverage and access to care (Real Decreto Ley 16/2012). Main measures target undocumented migrants: they will have no access to health coverage. Spain was a model for the European Union until now, as (...)
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6 June 2012
The right to health is being undermined in Europe, while barriers to access and inequalities in health care are on the rise. Driven by these concerns, we are meeting up in Athens. A gesture of solidarity. People in Europe are facing economies in decline and policies of austerity, at a time when (...)
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21 March 2012
Tuesday 10th of April 2012, from 2.30 to 5.30 pm. at University Foundation of Brussels, rue d’Egmontstraat 11 - 1000 Bruxelles (Troon Metro Station)
In light of World Health Day, Doctors of the World will present its findings concerning the people we meet in our daily medical programmes in (...)
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