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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Bangladesh: Between a rock and a hard place – Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar
There are currently around 860,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Most of them live in Cox’s Bazar district. The activities which Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) carries out for these refugees are centralized around the so-called ‘mega camp’, a large collection of 26 camps. In recent years, barbed and razor wire fencing was erected. The living […]
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Health facilities targeted in Tigray
Health facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalized and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to MSF.
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Pulka, Borno state: Water is the source of life and disease
“We have to be grateful that we now have water, but we don’t usually have enough water when we enter the dry and hot season,” says Adama. She was forced from her home by the violence that has spread throughout Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. Adama now lives in a camp for displaced people in […]
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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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Yemen: Health needs grow in former safe haven of Marib
Dotted across Marib governorate, in northeast Yemen, are 134 camps – temporary home to Yemenis displaced from their homes by the six-year-long conflict, African migrants stranded in Yemen, and members of a vulnerable minority group from Yemen known as Al-Muhamasheen. Before the start of the conflict, Marib was home to almost 400,000 people, according to […]
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Tigray Crisis: “We are suffering from a lack of medical care”
Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people.
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As US starts processing asylum seekers, thousands of migrants continue to suffer in Mexico
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the renewed processing of asylum claims by the United States at some points along Mexico’s northern border, but remains concerned about the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers who remain stranded in poor conditions in Mexico. The US and Mexico have prioritized processing […]
North Kivu, DRC: MSF starts intervention in support of community affected by Ebola
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports the national response to the new Ebola outbreak in North Kivu, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), through a mobile intervention to the benefit of patients, their families and the communities living in the affected area. “We are supporting the Matanda general hospital, in the Vungi […]
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Countries must stop blocking and move toward formal negotiations on pandemic monopoly waiver at WTO
MSF International President appeals to governments stonewalling on landmark proposal.
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