Category: COVID 19

COVID-19 in France: Ensuring continued access to medical care for vulnerable people in Paris and the suburbs

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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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Borno state: In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, malaria, malnutrition and water-borne diseases will not relent.

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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, […]

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COVID-19: MSF calls for no patents or profiteering on drugs, tests and vaccines in pandemic

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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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