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.
COVID-19 Coronavirus
More than 8,313 people access online mental health support tool in the past month
MSF's online mental health support tool helps people to deal with their emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Press Release - 13 Jul 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus
South Africa: Supporting mental health during a pandemic
“It’s not like a broken leg that you can see and the world responds appropriately. A broken mind or soul is hard to identify” – Leigh-Anne Snyman, nurse specialising in patient support, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Project Update - 8 Jul 2020
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Providing medical care to people who use drugs amid COVID-19 crisis in Kenya
COVID-19 and containment measures put in place to reduce the spread have not boded well for people who use drugs as most of them live in precarious conditions and are not able to practise some of the preventive measures Project Update - 1 Jul 2020
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Project Update - 18 Jun 2020
Maintaining health services for Dadaab refugees while responding to COVID-19
With a further tightening of mobility restrictions, humanitarian services remain a crucial lifeline and the only means to access food and health for many refugees. For MSF, the key priority has been to ensure that healthcare services in the camp are not disrupted, and that refugees continue to access medical services in a safe environment.Project Update - 18 Jun 2020
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Eastern Burkina Faso: Out of sight, people suffer from unprecedented rise in violence
In eastern Burkina Faso, the fight against COVID-19 is just one of many priorities and should not divert resources from other life-saving interventions highlights Abdalla Hussein , MSF Head of Mission in the country Crisis Update - 5 Jun 2020
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MSF launches new online mental health tool during COVID-19 pandemic
The tool provides practical solutions and advice to help people cope with their emotions during the pandemic, and is free to use via the MSF website Article - 2 Jun 2020
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"We’ve adapted our entire way of working”: Keeping essential medical services running during the COVID-19 pandemic
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt in every one of MSF’s approximately 450 projects in more than 70 countries. Since the beginning of the pandemic, MSF has had two main priorities: first, to keep existing essential medical services up and running for the hundreds of thousands of patients who rely on us; and second, to prepare for, and respond to the spread of the virus itself. Faced with challenges on a scale never experienced before, MSF’s teams, like frontline healthcare workers everywhere, have had to quickly adapt to the new realities of a COVID-19 world. Article - 26 May 2020
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Crisis Update: Fighting COVID-19 in East Africa
Across East Africa we are working hard to keep providing essential medical services, taking steps to keep patients and staff safe as well as launching new activities to respond directly to the outbreak. Crisis Update - 30 Apr 2020
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