Gweneth Thirlwell is working with MSF’s COVID-19 response team in Matamoros, in northwestern Mexico.
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Category: COVID 19
MSF wants Trudeau to commit to fair access to COVID-19 vaccines
An interview with Jason Nickerson, MSF Humanitarian Affairs Advisor.
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‘We have lost everything’: El Salvador hit by tropical storm Amanda as it continues to battle COVID-19
Before they lost their belongings during the storm, people already faced the economic and social consequences of complying with the quarantine imposed by the Salvadoran government to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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MSF opens Khayelitsha Field Hospital as South Africa braces for COVID-19
In May, South Africa’s Health Minister warned that with the current infection rate, South Africa would surpass its hospital bed capacity, potentially by the end of June.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global emergency and MSF teams are responding in more than 70 countries. We see how the rapid spread of the disease has overwhelmed healthcare systems, disrupted economies and altered livelihoods and lifestyles in many […]
COVID-19 in Haiti: MSF raises an alert over alarming spread
In response to the growing spread of COVID-19 in Haiti, MSF opened the Drouillard treatment center in Port-au- Prince on May 16, to care for patients suffering from the most severe cases of the virus.
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Any future COVID-19 vaccines must be sold at cost and accessible to all
The Vaccine Alliance, prepares to launch a global mechanism to negotiate with corporations on such vaccines, and appeals to governments to set up a fund to purchase them for developing countries.
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MSF welcomes WHO Solidarity Call to Action to share COVID-19 technology and intellectual property
Initiative is an important first step, but governments must make binding commitments to guarantee access.
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Venezuela: MSF opens COVID-19 centre in Caracas
More than 100 professionals from different disciplines have set up a specialist COVID-19 centre in a wing of the Ana Francisca Pérez de León II hospital in Petare, northeast Caracas.
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COVID-19: MSF responds in Amazonas, Brazil
Despite its relative small population, the state of Amazonas is among the regions with the highest absolute number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in Brazil.
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