COVID-19 Coronavirus
Crisis Update: A race against the pandemic
MSF teams in over 70 countries are racing to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Crisis Update - 22 Apr 2020
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Sudan: MSF supports hospitals and isolation sites in response to COVID-19
Following confirmation of the first cases of COVID-19 in Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has started supporting the Sudanese Ministry of Health (MoH), private facilities and designated COVID-19 health structures with logistics, technical assistance, infection control measures and training of healthcare staff. Article - 16 Apr 2020
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Kenya: Adapting to COVID-19
Across our projects in Kenya, MSF is working to adapt its programmes to respond to COVID-19 Article - 16 Apr 2020
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Tanzania: Spread of COVID-19 could be devastating for refugees and host communities
Pete Clausen is MSF's head of mission in Tanzania, Article - 14 Apr 2020
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MSF calls for no patents or profiteering on COVID-19 drugs, tests, and vaccines in pandemic
Rationing because of high prices and insufficient supply will prolong the pandemic Press Release - 27 Mar 2020
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COVID-19 and Tuberculosis: Global Solidarity Needed
In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, MSF is worried about vulnerable patients worldwide. One of these groups are people with TB, weaker lungs, often living in poor conditions. Article - 23 Mar 2020
Tackling TB in Sudan and South Sudan
Over recent years, MSF has integrated the diagnosis and treatment of TB into some of its medical programmes in Sudan and South Sudan in order to help tackle this disease, treating refugees, internally displaced people and local communities. - 23 Mar 2020![Patients waiting to take their methadone at the Karuri MAT clinic [© Paul Odongo/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf308280_medium.jpg?itok=O6PmUkp0 "Patients waiting to take their methadone at the Karuri MAT clinic [© Paul Odongo/MSF]")
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“I never thought I would get hooked,” reprieve for drugs users through a holistic approach
MSF's new facility in Kiambu, Kenya offers a one-stop clinic for people who use drugs (PWUDs) and aims to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with illicit opioid drug use Article - 13 Mar 2020
HIV/AIDS
Four things you need to know about South Sudanese refugees in Sudan
In December 2019, MSF opened a new 85-bed hospital in White Nile state, Sudan, upgrading the existing services in order to strengthen the quality of healthcare provided to South Sudanese refugees and the local community. The hospital, in Al Kashafa refugee camp, provides primary and secondary healthcare for patients with complicated conditions, including severely malnourished children and people with chronic infectious diseases, such as HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Article - 4 Feb 2020
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