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Washington, DC:‘Time for $5’ campaign to deliver 206,937 signatures to US corporation Danaher, demanding a $5 price for their medical tests

Posted on 18 October 2024 (18 October 2024) by abubaker

US test maker Cepheid and parent corporation Danaher have ignored global calls for price reductions and have broken their promise from one year ago to be transparent about what it costs to make their medical tests. Today, the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), alongside other global health activists, health care […]

MSF: Vaccination halves mortality among people infected with Ebola

Posted on 12 February 2024 (12 February 2024) by

A study conducted by Epicentre and other research organisations confirms the importance of vaccination against Ebola during epidemics: vaccination reduces not only the risk of infection, but also the risk of death. An observational study conducted by Epicentre, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) medical research and epidemiology centre, the results of which are published […]

Five Things We Need to See in the Pandemic Accord

Posted on 5 February 2024 (5 February 2024) by

In light of the global impact of the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) established a process to negotiate an agreement to better prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics (commonly known as the “pandemic accord”). Since February 2023, governments have been negotiating the text of the accord, and an outcome is expected […]

The Rohingya Displacement Crisis

Posted on 30 March 2023 (28 July 2023) by amanda

In August 2017, a coordinated campaign of violence by the Myanmar military against members of that country’s Rohingya ethnic minority drove hundreds of thousands of people to flee across Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in search of safety. […]

HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Posted on 30 March 2023 (3 May 2023) by amanda

Together, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria account for millions of deaths around the world every year – most of them in countries already struggling to cope with under-resourced health systems. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works directly in all three of these ongoing epidemics: We are the largest nongovernmental provider of TB care in […]

Gaps in Global Aid

Posted on 30 March 2023 (3 May 2023) by amanda

Medical care is just one of the many urgent needs faced by people in crisis, who also frequently lack access to food, shelter, clean water and protection from violence. The United Nations estimates that nearly 340 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in 2023, an increase of almost 60 million over the previous […]

Access to Medicines

Posted on 30 March 2023 (29 August 2023) by amanda

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continually calls on governments, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and others to place lives before profits and commit to making essential medicines available and accessible to the patients around the world who need them most. As a humanitarian medical organization driven by the belief that everyone should have access to essential […]