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MSF recruits medical and non-medical staff to work in it's projects.
 
Access to Healthcare

Pieri violence: “I knew we had to prepare for the worst”

Istifanus Chindong Damulak, MSF Medical Team Leader in Lankien gives a personal account of the violence in and around Pieri that killed over 200 people – including an MSF staff member – and left a further 300 wounded.

Stories from the Frontline - 2 Jul 2020
 
Access to medicines

African Union says urgent need to address patents and technology barriers for access to future COVID-19 vaccine

MSF welcomes the communique released by African health ministers stating the negative impact patents and other forms of intellectual property could have on access to potential future COVID-19 vaccines in their countries.
Press Release - 1 Jul 2020
 
Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Metuge, Mozambique.

“It was like the end of the world” - Thousands caught in crossfire of invisible conflict in Northern Mozambique

Over one hundred thousand people have been displaced as insurgents and security forces battle for control in Cabo Delgado. The plight and struggles of over one hundred thousand displaced people are increasing: primary needs are going unmet, aggravated by the extreme challenges that aid organisation face to access areas of the north of Mozambique. Crisis Update - 1 Jul 2020
 
Access to Healthcare

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
 
An MSF team talks to a group of men in Dar Zaghawa, in North Darfur state
Access to Healthcare

Sandstorms, Donkeys and Tobacco

After 13 years of work in Tawila, a focal point of the Darfur conflict in Sudan, MSF has handed over medical activities to local authorities. This town suffered attacks that forced people to flee and hosted waves of displaced populations escaping violence. Project Update - 30 Jun 2020
 
A view of the PoC site in Pibor © MSF
Refugees, Migration and displacement

Intense fighting in eastern South Sudan, once again, forces thousands of people to flee

A new and brutal rise in intercommunal clashes has led MSF to suspend its medical activities in Pibor Crisis Update - 24 Jun 2020
 
Access to medicines

Ahead of Gavi Board meeting, MSF calls on Gavi to revise its global mechanism and demand pharma sell all COVID-19 vaccines at cost

The public pays for the development of COVID-19 vaccines through their taxes, so they deserve transparency on public money that is handed over to pharmaceutical corporations. Press Release - 23 Jun 2020
 
A community health worker carries out malaria test, Kenema
Access to Healthcare

Responding to COVID-19 must not come at the expense of malaria activities, otherwise children may pay the price

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global tragedy but the consequences for children could be terrible if resources are diverted from malaria prevention and treatment Stories from the Frontline - 22 Jun 2020
 
Access to Healthcare

Misinformation and COVID-19: ‘If there is a false rumour then there may be a sick child suffering in a village’

MSF is extremely concerned about indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its potentially devastating effects on child health; we cannot allow this pandemic to rob the next generation of their future. Project Update - 19 Jun 2020