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MSF condemns attack on medical staff in El Salvador

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns the attack on one of its ambulance teams in Reparto Las Cañas, Ilopango, El Salvador on January 31 by an armed group. As a medical humanitarian organization, MSF operates under the principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. MSF calls on armed groups to respect medical services. The two ambulance […]

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Cameroon: Community-based healthcare is a lifeline for people displaced by violence

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Around a dozen adults and children are waiting patiently for their check-ups. Sitting behind a small table, Etienne Esua listens to the patients, dresses wounds and pricks fingers to perform rapid malaria tests. “When a test shows that a person has malaria but the symptoms are not severe, I treat the patients with drugs,” he […]

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MSF: Urgent need for vaccines as new COVID-19 strain ravages Mozambique, Eswatini and Malawi

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As a highly infectious new strain of COVID-19 spreads through Southern Africa, health workers in Mozambique, Eswatini and Malawi are struggling to treat escalating numbers of patients with little prospect of a vaccine to protect them from the virus.

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MSF to wealthy countries: Don’t block and ruin the potential of a landmark waiver on monopolies during the pandemic

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Ahead of the next round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss a proposal by South Africa and India to waive monopolies on COVID-19 medical tools during the pandemic, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on the wealthy countries opposing the proposal not to block it and ruin its lifesaving potential for […]

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NTD Day 2021: No more neglected diseases, no more neglected patients

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  Patients with neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) need better access to diagnosis and to treatment that is safe and effective, said Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in a new report that calls for an improved global response to NTDs in order to prevent further deaths and disability. “NTDs almost exclusively affect people living in extreme […]

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