Around one-quarter of our medical humanitarian assistance is for populations caught in armed conflict. Armed conflict devastates lives and destroys communities. Targeted, harassed and caught in hardship and poverty, people are forced into flight or to live under siege and face indiscriminate attacks. Access to basic needs such as food and medical care is often […]
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MSF: Governments must act fast on consensus supporting historic move to suspend monopolies during pandemic
Over 100 countries support the landmark proposal. […]
Northwest Syria: Displaced people prepare for another harsh winter
As winter approaches in northwest Syria, the already harsh living conditions of more than two million displaced people are becoming even more difficult to deal with. People living in camps across the region face the prospect of leaking tents, mud-filled streets and freezing temperatures. For many, it won’t be their first winter in such […]
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Pfizer and Moderna vaccines can only be scaled up globally if more suppliers can produce
As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) starts meeting today and later this month to discuss emergency use authorization of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warns that any eventual COVID-19 vaccine approval won’t be enough to solve the global pandemic unless corporations take urgent steps […]
Lancet Countdown: No one is immune to the climate emergency
MSF policy briefing for Lancet Countdown.
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MSF providing medical care and assistance in Sudan to people fleeing the violence in Ethiopia
On November 4, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered military action against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, following an attack on a military base. The escalating conflict is already affecting hundreds of thousands of people, and it runs the risk of destabilizing other parts of the country and the region, with potentially […]
World AIDS Day 2020: Critical HIV situation in Central African Republic
As a result, HIV remains a leading cause of death in the country. Last year, around 4,800 people died of HIV/AIDS in CAR, while some 5,500 new cases are confirmed every year.
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The Sahel Spotlight on Niger: Responding to a series of shocks in a fast-warming region
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 […]
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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