Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has announced today its decision to end activities and withdraw from Dasht-e-Barchi in Kabul, following the brutal attack of May 12 in which 16 mothers were systematically shot dead. An MSF midwife working for the organization, two children aged 7 and 8 and six other people present at the […]
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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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Coronavirus vaccine must be accessible for all
By Jason Nickerson, MSF Canada Humanitarian Affairs Advisor
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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 […]
Eastern Burkina Faso: Out of sight, people suffer from unprecedented rise in violence
By Abdallah Hussein, MSF head of mission in Burkina Faso.
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MSF updates on anti-racism
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a medical humanitarian movement that works with communities affected by crises to provide medical care to people who need it most, regardless of race or ethnicity. Every day we witness the impact of violence directed toward people who are targeted or denied access to care simply because of who […]
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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Ukraine: Increase in access to hepatitis C treatment
Three years ago, MSF designed a model of cooperation with the Ministry of Health in Mykolaiv to use generic drugs to treat hepatitis C.
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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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Yemen: “We have a lot of people like that: a lot of people that die quickly”
“For us, the healthcare workers, it makes us feel helpless. We can’t do much but give them oxygen. There are days we have had 13 deaths in the same day.”
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