Last week MSF teams began providing medical care to vulnerable people confined in emergency shelters or still living on the streets or in makeshift camps in Paris and the suburbs.
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After more than a decade of armed conflict, outbreaks of severe malnutrition, malaria, measles and cholera, approximately 1.5 million internally displaced people (IDPs) in Borno state now face the spectre of COVID-19. Many live in vastly overcrowded camps with poor water and sanitation facilities, limited supplies of hygiene essentials such as soap and water, […]
With just over 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for a population of 11 million, Belgium is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic.
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By Dr Claudia Lodesani, MSF Italy president and emergency coordinator for COVID-19.
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Read More… from Italy: “A new approach to public health, the big change needed to fight COVID-19”
Today’s statement urges for continuity and continued measures that will protect both public health and the health of all.
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In Italy, we are supporting three hospitals at the first epicentre of the outbreak in the North
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MSF calls for no patents or profiteering on drugs, tests, or vaccines used for the COVID-19 pandemic, and for governments to prepare to suspend and override patents and take other measures, such as price controls, to ensure availability, reduce prices and save more lives.
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Tthe COVID-19 epidemic has become a huge challenge worldwide and in Syria.
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The US government’s decision to block asylum proceedings and close the US-Mexico border threatens the healthy and safety of thousands.
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Read More… from COVID-19: Inclusion of asylum seekers is more effective than closing borders
MSF has been working for the past 15 days to respond to the coronavirus pandemic recently declared in Côte d’Ivoire.
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