Access to medicines
MSF and TB activists disrupt opening of TB conference to protest drug corporations keeping life-saving medicines from people
Newer medicines for DR-TB are desperately needed, but barriers to access, including high prices, keep them out of reach for most people around the world. Press Release - 31 Oct 2019
Access to Healthcare
Article - 28 Oct 2019
South Sudan: “The only way to move around the hospital now is by boat”
MSF medical team leader Benedetta Capelli is just back from Pibor, in South Sudan, where rising floodwaters have engulfed MSF’s hospital and much of the surrounding area. She spoke to us on 24 October 2019.Article - 28 Oct 2019
Refugees, Migration and displacement
It is an endless life of hopelessness and anxiety for many refugees
By Sandra Wekesa and Evelyn Makena MSF in the news - 16 Oct 2019
Access to medicines
Gavi should stop awarding special funds to Pfizer and GSK for pneumonia vaccine
More children can be protected against the number one childhood killer disease if Gavi reserves its special funding to promote a new affordable version of pneumonia vaccine Press Release - 26 Aug 2019![People queue at the entrance of an MSF mobile clinic held in a health post in Banko Baya town, Guji, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. [ © Igor Barbero / MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msf254536_medium.jpg?itok=BrvIHIGL "People queue at the entrance of an MSF mobile clinic held in a health post in Banko Baya town, Guji, in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. [ © Igor Barbero / MSF]")
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Ethiopia: The constant cycle of displacement
Thousands of people have shuttled backwards and forwards between the Gedeo and Guji areas of southern Ethiopia over the past 15 months, following an outbreak of ethnic violence in April 2018 and repeated efforts by the authorities to relocate them. Article - 14 Jul 2019
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Article - 18 Jun 2019
Stories of Survival | World Refugee Day
There are now 70.8 million forced from home around the world—more than at any time in modern history. These are people who have fled extreme dangers, whether to escape relentless bombing, an invading army, gang violence, or other life-threatening circumstances.Article - 18 Jun 2019
Snakebite
WHO launches strategy to cut snakebite deaths and disabilities in half
Snakebite is one of the world’s most neglected public health crises, which results in 100,000 deaths and 400,00 people left disabled each year. Press Release - 23 May 2019
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South Sudan: New MSF hospital in Ulang assists people affected by violence and neglect
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started a stable project in the northeastern town of Ulang, close to the Ethiopian border in South Sudan’s Upper Nile region, to address the needs of people living in a remote and neglected area who have been affected by years of war and frequent bouts of intercommunal violence and who struggle to access medical care. Press Release - 13 May 2019![. The MSF tea team chats with community leaders and elders of Kurtunle village during the monthly tea team focus group meeting [ © Susanne Doettling / MSF ]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf268877_medium.jpg?itok=p7Epv6ce ". The MSF tea team chats with community leaders and elders of Kurtunle village during the monthly tea team focus group meeting [ © Susanne Doettling / MSF ]")
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