Millions of patients and civilians forgotten beset by violence and excluded from humanitarian aid again left out of the political and media agendas. report "Top Ten most neglected humanitarian crisis of 2009," published by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), recalled that one year became the international community to ignore, or was unable to respond, the suffering of millions of patients forgotten and civilians attacked by the violence around the world.
Thousands of people die every day from diseases that do not affect the developed world, not business, not their patients a profitable market, so that research and development of new treatments and diagnostic methods not supported public-private partnerships necessary to provide an urgent response to the enormous challenge involved. In other cases, medications are available but patients do not have access to them. Thus, only malaria, child AIDS, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and kala azar are charged 8,000 lives every day.
child malnutrition, for example, every day is settled with the deaths of more than 9,000 children under 5 years even though there is a treatment that could save them, therapeutic foods prepared.
Moreover, the report MSF denounces the situation of the hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in forgotten conflicts like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), contexts where violence was indiscriminate, if not expressly directed against the population. Humanitarian organizations were also subjected to blockades, harassment and even direct attacks, causing this that needs populations remain acute excluded from emergency assistance.
The report highlights the dimension of selfishness and hypocrisy that govern the behavior of an international community that has not hesitated to squander countless resources on vaccines of questionable necessity and effectiveness against influenza A, while leaving starve hundreds of thousands of children worldwide. A dark landscape, however, becomes even more bleak in countries wracked by violence discriminated against civilians. Forgotten conflicts like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, among others.
full MSF Report: "The ten most neglected humanitarian crisis of 2009"
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