Hear from Dana Gill, US Policy Advisor, MSF Access Campaign
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Category: COVID 19
MSF: Immediate equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines is critical for Southern Africa and the world to prevent more suffering and death
Urgent action is required of leaders of wealthy nations, pharmaceutical corporations and COVAX before it is too late
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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: 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 responds to announcement of manufacturing plans for Novavax COVID-19 vaccine (NVX-CoV2373) in Canada
As Canada looks to expand its biomanufacturing capacity for vaccines and other health technologies, it’s essential we look not only at how best to meet domestic Canadian needs, but how to ensure this capacity will also help us respond to global unmet needs for COVID-19 and other vaccines.
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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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COVID-19 crisis in Manaus: Cascade effect in rural Amazon towns
With the health system collapsing, the state’s capital stops receiving serious cases from other towns.
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Palestine: Tackling COVID-19 in Hebron, the epicentre of the outbreak
Palestine is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases, both in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Of the more than 43,000 cases confirmed in the West Bank since the start of the pandemic, more than a third have been in Hebron governorate.
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COVID-19 further fuels mental health crisis as durable solutions falter in Dadaab
A mental health crisis is growing in the Dadaab refugee complex, where hundreds of thousands of Somalis have been stuck for decades now. A fatal mix of pent-up despair, anxiety and fear, combined with new uncertainties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, is forcing refugees to take extreme measures. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) […]
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Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 2 – June to August 2020
This report is the second of the accountability reports MSF is producing on our COVID-19 response. Read also the first report, covering the period March – May 2020.
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