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
Access to medicines
5 barriers from Big Pharma preventing people getting lifesaving TB drugs
We list 5 BARRIERS which pharma corporation Johnson and Johnson (J&J) are creating that stop people living with TB from getting the lifesaving medicine bedaquiline. Article - 23 Mar 2020
Access to Healthcare
Burkina Faso: an unprecedented humanitarian emergency for the country
Isabelle Defourny, MSF Director of Operations, was recently in Burkina Faso and raises the alarm on the humanitarian situation in the most conflict-affected areas of the country. Crisis Update - 23 Mar 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus
“Our priority is to protect hospital staff” in Codogno, where COVID-19 began in Italy
An MSF team, made up of doctors, nurses and hygiene experts, works every day to support hospital staff in Codogno, Italy Article - 23 Mar 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus
Covid-19: MSF provides support with response in second worst affected province in Iran
MSF has sent a 50-bed inflatable treatment unit and an emergency team of nine people to Isfahan, the second worst affected province in Iran, to increase hospital capacity for treating the critically ill. Article - 23 Mar 2020
Epidemics
As COVID-19 continues to spread, MSF prepares for action in France
Medical programmes will target the most vulnerable groups such as migrants, the homeless and unaccompanied minors Crisis Update - 19 Mar 2020COVID-19: Urgent help needed across European borders to protect medical staff
As Europe becomes the epicentre of the pandemic, MSF urges greater solidarity amongst European Member States - 17 Mar 2020
Access to Healthcare
South Sudan: massive influx of wounded and displaced people as clashes continue in Jonglei and the Greater Pibor administrative area
Our teams have received a mass influx of 83 wounded patients in Pieri and Lankien over the space of just five days between 9-13 March, and have treated 45 gunshot wounds in Pibor over the past month Press Release - 17 Mar 2020
COVID-19 Coronavirus
What questions does MSF face in this context? Crisis Update - 14 Mar 2020
Coronavirus: What is MSF doing?
The COVID-19 epidemic has already spread to more than 100 countries around the world. These include countries whose health systems are fragile and where MSF teams have a long-standing presence, as well as regions such as Europe, where the capacities are more robust but where the epidemic is particularly virulent. Travel restrictions generated by the outbreak also directly affect MSF's work around the world.What questions does MSF face in this context? Crisis Update - 14 Mar 2020