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Kenya: MSF raises alarm over risk of increased mortality during healthcare workers strike in Homa Bay
MSF urges both parties to reach minimum agreement to allow for immediate resumption of emergency and lifesaving services during the strike. Press Release - 26 Aug 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus
to provide a transparent picture of our interventions, refl ect on some of the major challenges we faced, and share our best
practices in fi ghting this pandemic. We commit to reporting regularly on our activities related to the pandemic in the months
to come. Crisis Update - 13 Aug 2020
Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report
By documenting the fi rst phase of MSF’s global COVID-19 response from the beginning of the year through May, we wantto provide a transparent picture of our interventions, refl ect on some of the major challenges we faced, and share our best
practices in fi ghting this pandemic. We commit to reporting regularly on our activities related to the pandemic in the months
to come. Crisis Update - 13 Aug 2020
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South Africa: Western Cape begins to breathe after COVID-19 peak
Opened beginning of June, MSFs Khayelitsha Field Hospital played a major role in helping the struggling Khayelitsha District Hospital to cope with the burden of COVID-19. Due to a decrease in admissions of people with COVID-19 at Khayelitsha district Hospital, and a slowdown in COVID-19 patients requiring hospital care across the City of Cape Town, MSF and the Department of Health have decided to scale down and close the facility by mid-August, with MSF now shifting focus to the Eastern Cape Province Project Update - 6 Aug 2020
Hepatitis
Reining in Hepatitis: preventing and treating the hush killer among vulnerable populations in Kenya
While a lot has been done in the prevention of HBV, new studies have shown that gaps still exist that put newborn babies at high risk of contracting hepatitis B virus Project Update - 28 Jul 2020
Crisis Response
Exclusion from Healthcare
In every situation, our teams strive to ensure that we target people who may be overlooked by the authorities or by other aid groups. These might include sex workers, street children, prisoners, drug addicts or the mentally ill.
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A silent woman-killer in Malawi
Cervical cancer kills over 2,300 women in Malawi every year, or two thirds of those who become infected with it, despite it being an easily preventable disease. This grim reality is the result of issues with vaccination and screening, as well as limitations in the offer of treatment. Since 2018, MSF has been working to fill the gap in Blantyre district, where the disease is particularly common. Project Update - 10 Jul 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus
MSF response to the release of UNAIDS 2020 Global AIDS Update Report
MSF joins UNAIDS in calling for countries to implement practices to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on HIV treatment services, including ways to provide people with HIV with multiple months of treatment at one time Press Release - 6 Jul 2020
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Johnson & Johnson TB drug price reduction is important step, and governments need to urgently scale up better treatment
120,707 people signed petitions urging the corporation to drop the price Press Release - 6 Jul 2020
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