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Access to medicines

Any future COVID-19 vaccines must be sold at cost and accessible to all

Governments must attach strings as they pledge billions to pay for COVID-19 vaccines in developing countries and governments and Gavi must demand pharmaceutical corporations to sell the vaccine at cost. Press Release - 2 Jun 2020
 
Al Amal COVID-19 Isolation and treatment center
Access to Healthcare

Yemen: In Aden’s only COVID-19 treatment centre we are seeing a catastrophe unfold

MSF is treating severely ill patients at its COVID-19 centre in Aden, many of whom are dying Press Release - 26 May 2020
 
MSF medical staff in Moria, Greece, working in PPE
Access to Healthcare

"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
 
Faith Njeri, an EMT at MSF Lavender House checks vitals of a patient
Access to Healthcare

COVID-19: “Let’s prepare for a long-distance run”

Doctor Chibuzo Okonta is President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) West Africa. Originally from Nigeria, he has been a volunteer for MSF since 2005. He has worked with the organisation’s emergency medical teams in several countries of the region. Here, he calls on the practitioners from the African continent to own the narrative of the current pandemic and take advantage of the continent's experience with outbreaks in order to propose a tailored response. Article - 20 May 2020
 
COVID-19 health promotion training and information sessions
COVID-19 Coronavirus

“If they do not even have food to eat – why would they have soap?”

COVID-19 is just one of many medical or humanitarian emergencies people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are faced with on a daily basis. As David Walubila Mwinyi , MSF Medical Data Supervisor South Kivu highlights, we need to meet the populations’ needs, by continuing to provide general health care across the country, earn their trust, and work together towards the end of the outbreak. Stories from the Frontline - 20 May 2020
 
Attacks on medical care

South Sudan: Renewed violence in Pieri kills and wounds dozens, including MSF staff

An MSF member of staff was killed and two more were injured during intense fighting that erupted over the weekend in and around Pieri Press Release - 19 May 2020
 
A woman carrying food for her family, Cox Bazar, Bangladesh [© Vincenzo Livieri]
COVID-19 Coronavirus

Five things we can do to protect people on the move during COVID-19

More than 70 million forcibly displaced people worldwide are particularly exposed to COVID-19 Crisis Update - 18 May 2020
 
Inside Illeret cholera treatment unit
Access to Healthcare

Responding to Cholera as COVID-19 threatens Kenya’s health system

Heavy rains across Kenya and the wider region have led to floods and forced many people from their homes. Now, the town of Telesgaye, a community in Kenya’s north-east Marsabit County, is fighting a cholera outbreak. Article - 18 May 2020
 
Attacks on medical care

Sudan: MSF urges respect for medical action after violent incursion

Fighting between elements of two different sections of the Sudanese security forces in Central Darfur state led to a violent incursion in an MSF-supported health facility that left  one MSF staff member injured.  Crisis Update - 15 May 2020
 
One of the wards in the maternity. [© Frederic Bonnot/MSF]
Attacks on medical care

"They came to kill the mothers"

It is now clear that the attack on Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul on 12 May, was a deliberate assault on a maternity hospital. Frederic Bonnot, MSF’s Head of Programmes in Afghanistan gives a first-person account
Crisis Update - 15 May 2020