Access to medicines
MSF: Governments must demand pharma make all COVID-19 vaccine licensing deals public
Press Release
11 Nov 2020
Guatemala
MSF started working in Guatemala in 1984 and closed its projects in 2012.
COVID-19 Coronavirus
MSF challenges COVID-19 myths with new quiz challenge app
Article
10 Nov 2020
Access to medicines
MSF and TB activists disrupt opening of TB conference to protest drug corporations keeping life-saving medicines from people
Press Release
31 Oct 2019
Videos and Photos
Tips to De-Stress
30 Oct 2019
Videos and Photos
![Kidnapping of migrants has been for a while now a lucrative business for the criminal gangs operating in the Mexican northern cities bordering the US. [photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi]](/sites/default/files/styles/card_half/public/msfimages/news/msf236305_medium.webp?itok=fOU6t4E0 "Kidnapping of migrants has been for a while now a lucrative business for the criminal gangs operating in the Mexican northern cities bordering the US. [photo: Juan Carlos Tomasi]")
Access to Healthcare
Increase in kidnappings and extreme violence against migrants on the southern border of Mexico
Press Release
30 Oct 2019
Access to medicines
Gavi should stop awarding special funds to Pfizer and GSK for pneumonia vaccine
Press Release
26 Aug 2019
COVID-19 seriously affected general healthcare provision in Guatemala, due to a lack of medical staff and testing equipment.
In March, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) started to assist with the COVID-19 response in the town of La Gomera, in Escuintla department. After assessing the needs, we scaled up health promotion and mental health support to the Escuintla Ministry of Health, which only had three psychologists for the whole department.
We set up a mental health helpline to provide psychological support for health workers. These mental health activities were among the very few in the country aimed at reducing the effects of stress and anxiety produced by COVID-19.
We also assisted the local Ministry of Health with logistics for respiratory triage in La Gomera general healthcare clinic. This enabled the clinic to detect cases of COVID-19 among the local community and ensure patients received adequate medical care. In addition, we enlisted the help of people in the community to distribute health promotion materials with information about the virus and how to prevent its spread, as well as advice on protecting mental health, across the whole department.
No. staff in 2020: 1 (FTE) » Expenditure in 2020: €0.4 million. MSF first worked in the country: 1984