By Lili-Marie Wangari, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for MSF in Kenya. Wangari is working on the organization’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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DRC: COVID-19 must not jeopardize the fight against deadly diseases
Overshadowed by outbreaks of Ebola last year and by COVID-19 today, the measles epidemic in DRC continues to kill children every day.
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DRC: Health promotion during COVID-19
While being close to a post-Ebola epidemic period, DRC begins to see signs of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
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US/Mexico: Migrations Policies’ Health Impacts
New migration policies imposed by the United States and Mexico are trapping many Central Americans in dangerous conditions, with severe consequences for their physical and mental health, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a report released today. The report, No Way Out, is based on 480 interviews and […]
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COVID-19: Abnormality in the West Bank
A full lockdown has been in place in the West Bank for more than three weeks, with over 300 cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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COVID-19: providing care to vulnerable people in Brazil
Teams are working in São Paulo and Roraima, focusing on people experiencing homelessness and migrants.
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Northeast Syria: First confirmed COVID-19 case increases concerns for preparedness
As the first reported death from COVID-19 is confirmed in north-east Syria, MSF is concerned about the region’s preparedness and capacity to respond to an outbreak.
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COVID-19 in New York: Vulnerable communities need urgent protection
Greater focus on under-resourced communities in the United States is urgently needed to ensure that all people can protect themselves and their families during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rohingya refugees left to starve at sea
By Daniella Ritzau-Reid, MSF Communications Manager in Bangladesh
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MSF urges J&J to reduce price of TB drug to save lives of vulnerable people in pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow, people with respiratory issues and lung damage, such as people with tuberculosis (TB), are at a greater risk of getting sick and dying of COVID-19 disease if infected. There is an urgent need to ensure the continuity of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care for people with TB worldwide […]