Pharmaceutical corporation Moderna announced today that preliminary data from a large, ongoing phase 3 trial testing a potential COVID-19 vaccine suggest that the vaccine is 94.5% effective. While this is a promising step, a press release by Moderna is not sufficient to draw concrete conclusions. Full transparency of the clinical trial data and analysis is […]
Category: COVID 19
MSF calls on all governments to support landmark move at WTO to suspend monopolies during COVID-19
Geneva, 19 November 2020 – Ahead of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks to consider a landmark request to waive certain intellectual property (IP) during the COVID-19 pandemic— put forward by India and South Africa in October— Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on all governments to support this game-changing step. The IP waiver would allow […]
MSF challenges COVID-19 myths with new quiz challenge app
A new app that encourages people to behave safely if someone in their family or community catches COVID-19 has been launched by MSF in association with software developer Pixel Impact.
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MSF responds to COVID-19 in Jordan’s largest refugee camp
One month after the first person tested positive for COVID-19 in Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp, MSF has so far received seven patients at its COVID-19 treatment centre in the camp.
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India and South Africa propose no patents on COVID-19 medicines and tools during pandemic
Governments make request to World Trade Organization (WTO) for intellectual property waiver for all countries until herd immunity reached.
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COVID-19: ‘If they don’t have food to eat, why would they have soap?’
By David Walubila Mwinyi, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Medical Data Supervisor in South Kivu, Demcratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Northwest Syria: Surge in COVID-19 cases adds new challenges to humanitarian response
Northwest Syria is currently witnessing a sharp increase in the number of patients with COVID-19, which is now ten times higher than what it was just a month ago.
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Mexico, Honduras & El Salvador: A Multidisciplinary COVID-19 response
Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador have been responding to the COVID-19 emergency for the last six months and all three countries are now showing a decreasing number of cases.
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Brazil: MSF works to prevent spread of COVID-19 among indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul
Indigenous communities in Brazil have been especially vulnerable to COVID-19. In the central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, which is home to many indigenous communities, teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are helping prevent, diagnose and treat COVID-19. With few doctors in Mato Grosso do Sul, there is often no […]
Central African Republic: During the COVID-19 pandemic, malaria remains the number one killer of children
The hospital in Batangafo – a town of 31,000 people, including 22,000 displaced from elsewhere in the Central African Republic – is bustling with activity.
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