Autism Success Story: Jasper Steed * Jul 26, 2010 Individual with autism offers hope and help…a story about Jasper Steed. People with autism are able to succeed in varying ways. Liv
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Swimming Lessons with our Mission: Cambodia Volunteer Friends!
Today our Mission: Cambodia Volunteer’s are set to teach our two baby twins Bora & Soksan how to swim! along with helping teach some important water safety lessons to our staff & kids in Phnom Penh!!
Our Next Mission: Cambodia Volunteer Trip is set for Jan 30th 2012 - 13th Feb 2012
email sam@cambodiankidsfoundation.com for more info or to book your place on the trip.
more info on our facebook page ; www.facebook.com/cambodiankidsfoundation
In Somalia, Maryan walked ten miles with her malnourished child on her back to get lifesaving emergency care. Two-year-old Deng was brought to a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in South Sudan where he was treated for kala azar – a deadly tropical disease. Sanna was pregnant when the floods in Pakistan hit and left her without clean water or food.
Together, Doctors Without Borders and our donors provided these women and children and many thousands of people like them with the emergency medical care they needed to survive. But as we head into 2012, your support is critical as we prepare to respond to the medical needs of people facing natural disasters, deadly diseases and conflict.
Dear Supporters,
Thank you for joining our call to action urging Johnson & Johnson to license the company’s patents on three lifesaving HIV/AIDS drugs to the Medicines Patent Pool, a mechanism designed to lower prices of HIV medicines and increase access to them for people in the developing world.
Despite continuing to earn record profits and a company credo that calls for putting patients first, on December 19, Johnson & Johnson continued to turn its back on people living with HIV/AIDS in many developing countries by telling the Pool it refused to license its patents on the HIV drugs rilpivirine, darunavir, and etravirine.
Over the past two years, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been urging Johnson & Johnson, and other companies holding HIV drug patents, to take this critical step of joining the Pool. The Pool would license patents on HIV drugs to other manufacturers and the resulting competition would dramatically reduce prices, making them much more affordable in the developing world and allow new combination medicines.
In refusing to join the Medicines Patent Pool, Johnson & Johnson says there is no urgency for making these drugs widely available in developing countries. That’s simply not true. MSF now provides treatment to more than 180,000 people living with HIV worldwide, and is beginning to witness the inevitable, natural phenomenon of treatment failure, whereby people develop resistance to the drugs they are taking and need to graduate to newer medicines.
Furthermore, rilpivirine, darunavir, and etravirine were identified among the key drug formulations needed for HIV treatment by the Medicines Patent Pool, UNITAID and the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS Department.
The fight for our patients does not end here with this announcement from Johnson & Johnson. MSF will continue to press Johnson & Johnson and other companies holding patents on essential HIV/AIDS medicines to join the Medicines Patent Pool.
Ultimately, it is about breaking the double standard of access to essential medicines for patients living with HIV/AIDS in developing countries. For the sake of patients who are resistant to today’s treatment as well as patients of tomorrow who are still waiting for access to improved drugs, MSF will continue to call for real access to affordable medicines.
We are thrilled to announce that, with the help of our amazing DC Government employees and agencies, Serve DC collected more than 1,500 lbs. of food (that’s 1,200 meals, people!) for our “Many Hands, One Purpose” DC Government World AIDS Day Food Drive! Donations benefit our rockstar partner Food & Friends, a local nonprofit that provides free, home-delivered meals, groceries and nutrition counseling to people living with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses in the DC Metro area.
