COVID-19 Coronavirus
It’s not only vaccines: Oxygen must be at the heart of the COVID-19 response
Brussels: In a briefing paper, titled “Gasping For Air”, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) highlights the importance of placing medical oxygen supply, not only vaccines and PPE, at the heart of a global COVID-19 response. With vaccines unavailable in the majority of countries worldwide, people will continue to fall ill with COVID-19 and without a significant investment in oxygen infrastructure, those whose illness is severe and who cannot access oxygen will continue to die. Article - 10 May 2021
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Gasping For Air - The deadly shortages in medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients
Reports - 10 May 2021
COVID-19 Coronavirus
India: The devastating COVID-19 second wave pushing healthcare provision to the limits in Mumbai
Testimony by Gautam Harigovind, Medical Activity Manager- COVID-19 project, Mumbai Stories from the Frontline - 7 May 2021
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 3
September to December 2020 Reports - 5 May 2021
Access to Healthcare
Ethiopia: People in rural Tigray hit by impact of crisis and humanitarian neglect
Many of Tigray’s six million people live in mountainous and rural areas where they are all but invisible to the outside world. While teams of aid workers have been deployed to the main cities of this northern Ethiopian region over recent months, aid is failing to reach more remote communities, where the impact of the conflict has often been severe. Many people have been unable to access healthcare and other basic services for the past six months and are still living in fear. Article - 4 May 2021
Access to Healthcare
Burkina Faso: providing healthcare in a region ravaged by violence
Burkina Faso’s North region hosts more than 100,000 internally displaced people who fled recurring violence in this part of the country. Since January 2021, MSF’s mobile teams have been offering healthcare support to people in the villages of Sirfou, Todiame, Rounga and Ouindigui, where thousands of these displaced persons have settled, but where access to healthcare and other basic services is severely limited. Article - 4 May 2021
Refugees, Migration and displacement
Kenya: Forcing solutions onto refugees is not the answer
Flashquote from Adrian Guadarrama, Deputy Programme Manager Project Update - 1 May 2021
COVID-19 Coronavirus
MSF resumes activities in response to India’s COVID-19 second wave
Delhi, 23 April - Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders) restarts emergency response amid a surging second wave of COVID-19 in Mumbai in Maharashtra state. The city is very densely populated and the poor and dilapidated hygiene conditions are a triple trigger for the virus to breed, infect and spread rapidly. Press Release - 26 Apr 2021
War and conflict
Ethiopia: “I turned around and started running and that is when I was shot”
Survivors describe being shot by soldiers in Adwa, Tigray Stories from the Frontline - 20 Apr 2021
Access to Healthcare