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 […]
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Caracas, Venezuela: MSF withdraws from Francisca Pérez de León II hospital in Petare
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 […]
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Iraq: MSF warns of dire humanitarian consequences if Laylan camp is closed
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. […]
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HIV in Kenya: Improved testing and care slashes rates
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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MSF: Moderna must transparently share information around their COVID-19 vaccine and sell it at-cost
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 […]
Tuberculosis: MSF Report shows new tests and drugs remain out of reach
MSF calls on governments and donors to step up and speed up TB testing and treatment. […]
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MSF Canada included in Top 10 International Impact Charities for 2020
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada gratefully acknowledges our inclusion in Charity Intelligence’s list of Top 10 International Impact Charities, which recognizes MSF’s emergency humanitarian medical work in more than 70 countries around the world, providing direct and lifesaving medical care to people affected by conflicts, crises, disasters and disease epidemics. Last year, MSF field teams carried out more than 10 million medical consultations, treated 2.6 million people […]
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DRC: MSF denounces ongoing violence in Salamabila
On the evening of November 11, shortly after shots were heard in the town of Salamabila in Congo´s eastern Maniema province, two people with serious gunshot injuries arrived in health structures supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). A third person, with stab wounds, sought help the following morning. Our teams also treated several […]
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MSF calls on all governments to support landmark move at WTO to suspend monopolies during COVID-19
Geneva, 19 November 2020 – Ahead of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks to consider a landmark request to waive certain intellectual property (IP) during the COVID-19 pandemic— put forward by India and South Africa in October— Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on all governments to support this game-changing step. The IP waiver would allow […]
Carnage in the Mediterranean is the direct result of European state policies
The last few days have produced one of the most lethal episodes in the central Mediterranean Sea so far this year, with more than 100 people dying at sea in three separate shipwrecks within less than 72 hours. Six NGO rescue ships remain blocked in port by Italian and European authorities, as Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans […]
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