In May, South Africa’s Health Minister warned that with the current infection rate, South Africa would surpass its hospital bed capacity, potentially by the end of June.
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By Jason Nickerson, MSF Canada Humanitarian Affairs Advisor
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One of the key aims of our team is to protect hospital staff from being infected with the virus.
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global emergency and MSF teams are responding in more than 70 countries. We see how the rapid spread of the disease has overwhelmed healthcare systems, disrupted economies and altered livelihoods and lifestyles in many […]
By Abdallah Hussein, MSF head of mission in Burkina Faso.
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a medical humanitarian movement that works with communities affected by crises to provide medical care to people who need it most, regardless of race or ethnicity. Every day we witness the impact of violence directed toward people who are targeted or denied access to care simply because of who […]
In response to the growing spread of COVID-19 in Haiti, MSF opened the Drouillard treatment center in Port-au- Prince on May 16, to care for patients suffering from the most severe cases of the virus.
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Three years ago, MSF designed a model of cooperation with the Ministry of Health in Mykolaiv to use generic drugs to treat hepatitis C.
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The Vaccine Alliance, prepares to launch a global mechanism to negotiate with corporations on such vaccines, and appeals to governments to set up a fund to purchase them for developing countries.
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The military offensive carried out by the Government of Syria and its allies in Northwest Syria, has led to the displacement of almost a million people in the space of just four months in the Idlib region. People have had to flee from their homes or from the camps they were already displaced in, to […]
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