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Brazilian Amazon: COVID-19 disaster unfolding
Cases surging, health system collapsing, and a daily struggle for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams to keep up.
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MSF condemns attack on medical staff in El Salvador
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the attack on one of its ambulance teams in Reparto Las Cañas, Ilopango, El Salvador on January 31 by an armed group. As a medical humanitarian organization, MSF operates under the principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. MSF calls on armed groups to respect medical services. The two ambulance […]
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Cameroon: Community-based healthcare is a lifeline for people displaced by violence
Around a dozen adults and children are waiting patiently for their check-ups. Sitting behind a small table, Etienne Esua listens to the patients, dresses wounds and pricks fingers to perform rapid malaria tests. “When a test shows that a person has malaria but the symptoms are not severe, I treat the patients with drugs,” he […]
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MSF: Urgent need for vaccines as new COVID-19 strain ravages Mozambique, Eswatini and Malawi
As a highly infectious new strain of COVID-19 spreads through Southern Africa, health workers in Mozambique, Eswatini and Malawi are struggling to treat escalating numbers of patients with little prospect of a vaccine to protect them from the virus.
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MSF to wealthy countries: Don’t block and ruin the potential of a landmark waiver on monopolies during the pandemic
Ahead of the next round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss a proposal by South Africa and India to waive monopolies on COVID-19 medical tools during the pandemic, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on the wealthy countries opposing the proposal not to block it and ruin its lifesaving potential for […]
COVID-19 in Malawi: Overwhelming second wave
Fabrice Weissman, who is member of the MSF COVID-19 response team in Malawi, describes the situation.
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NTD Day 2021: No more neglected diseases, no more neglected patients
Patients with neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) need better access to diagnosis and to treatment that is safe and effective, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report that calls for an improved global response to NTDs in order to prevent further deaths and disability. “NTDs almost exclusively affect people living in extreme […]
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South Kivu, DRC: An endless fight
In the last two years, the unrest ravaging eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has forced many thousands of people to flee their homes. Many have found refuge on the other side of the border between North and South Kivu, where they share limited resources and land with equally vulnerable populations. “We heard […]
CAR: Extremely precarious living conditions for the displaced people of Bouar
The displaced people of Bouar are facing an unprecedented crisis and an effective and coordinated humanitarian response is urgently needed.
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