The city is very densely populated and the poor and dilapidated hygiene conditions are a triple trigger for the virus to breed, infect and spread rapidly.
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Category: COVID 19
COVID-19 vaccines: Equitable global access is urgently needed
COVID-19 is a devastating global public health emergency, especially in parts of the world where healthcare systems were already fragile even before the pandemic began. The key to overcoming this disease is through vaccination.
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Failed COVID-19 response drives Brazil to humanitarian catastrophe
More than 12 months into Brazil’s COVID-19 emergency, there is still no effective, centralized and coordinated public health response to the outbreak.
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The COVID-19 vaccine is the People’s Vaccine
It’s time for Big Pharma to do the right thing
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Lebanon: MSF participating in COVID-19 vaccination efforts for the most vulnerable populations across the country
MSF started vaccinating elderly people and medical personnel in nursing homes against COVID-19 in March 2021.
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“Only vaccination will end the savage progress of COVID-19 in Iraq”
By Omar Ebeid, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Project Coordinator working in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Yemen: MSF calls on international actors to increase support to the COVID-19 response as a second wave overwhelms medical facilities
MSF is seeing a dramatic influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in Aden and many other parts of the country.
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Governments must demand pharma make all COVID-19 vaccine licensing deals public
Terms of a deal disclosed show that we cannot rely on pharma’s goodwill to do the right thing, even in a pandemic.
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Small things can save lives: coping with COVID-19 in resource-scarce hospitals
by Dr. Gilles van Cutsem, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Senior HIV/TB adviser and international HIV/AIDS working group lead.
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MSF responds to news of first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility
This first delivery from the COVAX Facility comes over two months after the first people started receiving COVID-19 vaccines in wealthy countries. As World Health Organization head Dr Tedros Adhanom recently pointed out, only 10 countries have currently administered 75% of all vaccinations worldwide, while 130 countries hadn’t yet received a single dose. The COVAX […]