As winter approaches in northwest Syria, the already harsh living conditions of more than two million displaced people are becoming even more difficult to deal with. People living in camps across the region face the prospect of leaking tents, mud-filled streets and freezing temperatures. For many, it won’t be their first winter in such […]
Read More… from Northwest Syria: Displaced people prepare for another harsh winter
As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) starts meeting today and later this month to discuss emergency use authorization of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that any eventual COVID-19 vaccine approval won’t be enough to solve the global pandemic unless corporations take urgent steps […]
MSF policy briefing for Lancet Countdown.
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Read More… from Lancet Countdown: No one is immune to the climate emergency
On November 4, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered military action against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, following an attack on a military base. The escalating conflict is already affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and it runs the risk of destabilizing other parts of the country and the region, with potentially […]
As a result, HIV remains a leading cause of death in the country. Last year, around 4,800 people died of HIV/AIDS in CAR, while some 5,500 new cases are confirmed every year.
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Read More… from World AIDS Day 2020: Critical HIV situation in Central African Republic
In a new brief for the Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change 2020, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical humanitarian teams around the world and across multiple disciplines share their experiences with how climate change has likely exacerbated health and humanitarian crises. Through country snapshots and case studies, authors share their […]
Medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been forced to withdraw from the Ana Francisca Pérez de León II hospital, in Petare, northeast Caracas, where it had been helping in the response against COVID-19 since March. This decision was made after entry restrictions into the country were imposed on MSF’s specialist humanitarian […]
Read More… from Caracas, Venezuela: MSF withdraws from Francisca Pérez de León II hospital in Petare
Early yesterday morning trucks arrived at Laylan camp, in Iraq’s Kirkuk governorate, in preparation for moving residents back to their areas of origin elsewhere in Iraq. Camp residents expressed their fears of being returned against their will to staff from international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), who are providing healthcare in the camp. […]
Read More… from Iraq: MSF warns of dire humanitarian consequences if Laylan camp is closed
For many years Ndhiwa sub-county had one of the highest HIV prevalence rates (the proportion of the population infected with the virus) in Kenya and across Africa.
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Read More… from HIV in Kenya: Improved testing and care slashes rates
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 […]