MSF also calls upon US President Biden to use all government powers to force this technology transfer.
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The climate crisis is a health and humanitarian crisis
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has long responded to some of the world’s worst medical and humanitarian crises. Many of the areas in which we work are in the most climate-vulnerable settings in the world, and our teams provide care for people experiencing the health impacts of the climate emergency first-hand. It is very […]
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DRC: MSF mass vaccination campaign protects more than 700,000 from measles
On October 28, 2021, a team of five people from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), travelled to the Bambu health district in Ituri province to assist isolated communities. When the team were travelling back at around 15:50, unidentified gunmen fired at the MSF vehicle for an unexplained reason, with two members of the […]
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Geo Barents: almost 400 people rescued in less than two days
A firsthand account from on board of the MSF search and rescue vessell, Geo Barents.
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TB-PRACTECAL: MSF clinical trial finds short, effective and safe drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment
New results show a much shorter treatment regimen for drug-resistant TB is superior to current care. TB-PRACTECAL, a clinical trial led by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has found that a new all-oral six-month treatment regimen is safer and more effective at treating rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) than the current accepted standard of care. These […]
Haiti fuel crisis: MSF forced to cut back its activities at Tabarre Hospital
A fuel shortage in Haiti in recent days is threatening access and continuity of medical care in the country, said the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. At its trauma hospital in Tabarre, Port au Prince, MSF has been forced to limit patients and is only treating life-threatening emergencies. The […]
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Why MSF wants Canada to demand a better return on its medical R&D spending
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on Canada’s government to attach simple conditions to the money it spends each year on medical research and development (R&D), to ensure that its public funding is used to increase returns on public health rather than boost private profits for the pharmaceutical sector. Why does that matter […]
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Counter terrorism is “Adding salt to the wound” for MSF’s work in conflict
Twenty years after the start of the ‘global War on Terror’ in the wake of 9/11, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) today released a report “Adding salt to the wound” highlighting the consequences of counter-terrorism wars on its frontline workers. The findings of the research paint a bleak picture of the reality of trying to provide […]
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MSF warns of health and humanitarian impacts of climate change in new 2021 Lancet Countdown Report
In a new humanitarian brief for the 2021 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change report, MSF medical humanitarians from around the world and across disciplines share their experiences with how climate change has likely exacerbated health and humanitarian crises.
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Northern Syria: Health system overwhelmed in most severe COVID-19 outbreak yet
Northern Syria is experiencing its most severe recorded wave of COVID-19 yet, with needs fast outpacing limited oxygen supplies and health facilities running out of testing kits. In the northwest the health system is already unable to cope, while in the northeast the virus is spreading at a worrying pace, the international medical humanitarian organization […]
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