Access to Healthcare
New MSF hospital in White Nile state to strengthen the quality of healthcare provided to refugees and local community
Khartoum/Al Kashafa, 23 January 2020 – Today, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) inaugurates a new hospital in Al Kashafa refugee camp, White Nile state, Sudan. The hospital will strengthen the quality of healthcare being provided to South Sudanese refugees and the local community. Press Release - 24 Jan 2020
Access to medicines
As J&J release earnings, MSF protests price of lifesaving TB drug in front of New York Stock Exchange
New York, 22 January 2020—Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York today, demanding the pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) make the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline available for all people with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) for no more than a dollar a day. The price of this crucial drug must be lowered to reflect the joint contributions made in the research and development of this drug by taxpayers, and the global scientific and TB community, including by MSF itself. Press Release - 21 Jan 2020
Access to Healthcare
Five New Year’s resolutions for improving care in 2020
A new year is an excellent opportunity to see how we can further improve our work. Every MSF project is unique and is set within its own context, and will therefore have its own priorities of areas to improve. But there are also things we want to do better across all of our projects. Here are five examples of things we want to get better at in 2020. Press Release - 9 Jan 2020
Access to medicines
We would like to share with you our vision of how we want to see things change for people we serve in our projects and other people in developing countries in the form of our annual ‘Wishlist’.
Please enjoy and share so we can continue to build our Access to Medicines community and together change the world! Press Release - 3 Jan 2020
Wishlist 2020
As we move out of our anniversary year, MSF’s Access Campaign team is looking forward eagerly to the work that lies ahead in 2020 to open up access to medicines.We would like to share with you our vision of how we want to see things change for people we serve in our projects and other people in developing countries in the form of our annual ‘Wishlist’.
Please enjoy and share so we can continue to build our Access to Medicines community and together change the world! Press Release - 3 Jan 2020
Access to Healthcare
South Sudan: MSF Hands Over Medical Activities in Yida
After actively responding to the medical needs of people in and around Yida for eight years, we are handing over our project - supporting the outpatient department of the Yida Primary Health Care Center (PHCC) to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and its partners on 31 December. Press Release - 31 Dec 2019![Ebola/DRC [Samuel Sieber/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf287211_medium.jpg?itok=loEVp_7U "Ebola/DRC [Samuel Sieber/MSF]")
Ebola
Ebola/DRC : MSF stops activities in Biakato due to the presence of armed forces in medical structures
MSF took the difficult decision to stop medical activities in Biakato, in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Press Release - 30 Dec 2019![Young South Sudanese refugees pose for a photograph in Biringi, Ituri Province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo [PHOTO: ALEXIS HUGUET/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf296472_medium.jpg?itok=GauYh3f2 "Young South Sudanese refugees pose for a photograph in Biringi, Ituri Province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo [PHOTO: ALEXIS HUGUET/MSF]")
Ebola
DRC: Fighting measles in Ebola-affected areas
Dr Nicolas Peyraud, an MSF vaccination referent, has just returned from several assignments in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where he helped to set up measles vaccination campaigns in collaboration with UNICEF and the Congolese Ministry of Health. In areas also affected by the Ebola outbreak, providing care for children suffering from measles and vaccinating those at risk pose additional challenges for health workers. Dr Peyraud explains these. Interview - 23 Dec 2019
Measles
DRC: Efforts to tackle the deadly measles epidemic remain insufficient
Since January 2019, more than 288,000 people have contracted measles in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and more than 5,700 have died from the disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), this is the largest measles epidemic in the world today and the largest recorded in DRC for decades. Efforts have been made at the national level, but more resources must be quickly committed and targeted to areas that are still suffering from this disease in order to stop this outbreak Press Release - 23 Dec 2019
Access to Healthcare
Project Update - 23 Dec 2019
“You use what you have, as best you can.”
In early December logistician Karla Claus finished two years of back-to-back missions with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders(MSF). In that time, her work took Karla across South Sudan, a country with no shortage of challenges and crises. Here she reflects on her recent assignment as part of the emergency response to the severe flooding that South Sudan has faced since July.Project Update - 23 Dec 2019
![Stone Grant: Samuel Abuvu Paul [Photo: Ana Adlerstein/MSF]](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/msfimages/news/msf298569_medium_0.jpg?itok=NsP7v4fJ "Stone Grant: Samuel Abuvu Paul [Photo: Ana Adlerstein/MSF]")
Primary care