MSF warns that medical care cannot be sustained while armed clashes and robberies affect health facilities, vehicles, patients and staff.
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MSF response to WTO TRIPS Council moving toward text-based negotiations on the ‘TRIPS waiver’ proposal
In a major breakthrough today at the TRIPS Council meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO), members agreed to engage in a text-based process on the monopoly waiver proposal – the ‘TRIPS waiver’ – first proposed by South Africa and India in October 2020 and now sponsored by 63 WTO members. The next General Council […]
DRC: MSF General Hospital looted and burnt down
Boga’s General Referral Hospital, which is supported by MSF, has been the target of a deliberate attack in the context of ongoing clashes in the city.
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Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: Fire destroys Rohingya refugee shelters and MSF clinic
A large fire has broken out in camps in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh where around 900,000 refugees are currently living. According to United Nations (UN) estimates, around 15 people lost their lives during the massive blaze, 560 people were injured and up to 10,000 families (more than 45,000 people) have been displaced, but the final numbers are […]
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Palestine: Immunization urgently needed as COVID-19 overwhelms West Bank hospitals
Since February, another heavy wave of COVID-19 has swept through the West Bank. Over 20,000 patients are currently being treated for COVID-19.
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Panama: MSF begins operations with migrations in the Darién forest
MSF calls for the creation of safe routes between Colombia and Panama for people in transit.
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Nigeria: Zamfara state gripped by humanitarian crisis as violence escalates
MSF is calling for an urgent humanitarian response for people in the region, who are desperately short of food, drinking water, shelter, protection and basic services, including healthcare.
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Conflict in Burkina Faso: when the whole day is devoted to fetching water
Since 2018, this region has been at the centre of a growing armed conflict, which has engulfed much of the greater African Sahel that covers also the neighbouring countries.
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DRC: Half a million without drinking water following volcano eruption
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges for further assistance to people left without water following the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) volcano eruption in May 2021. Hundreds of thousands of people have been left displaced, and over half a million in the city of Goma have been left without access to clean drinking water, following […]
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MSF tells MPs that Canada must do more to address inequitable global access to vaccines
The following is a transcript of opening words by Jason Nickerson, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Humanitarian Representative to Canada to the Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on International Trade in May 2021. Hello, thank you for having us. We’re going to speak to two issues that are part of the Committee’s study, from the perspective of our […]