Access to Healthcare
MSF raises alert over alarming indications of large-scale nutritional crisis in Ethiopia's Afar region
Many people in Afar cannot access the very minimum levels of healthcare, food and water necessary to sustain human life Press Release - 9 Jun 2022
Climate Emergency
Somalia and Somaliland: Drought intensifies health crisis
After four failed rainy seasons in a row, there are massive – and growing - humanitarian needs in Somalia and Somaliland. Article - 8 Jun 2022
Access to Healthcare
MSF restarts medical humanitarian activities in Gambella and Somali regions of Ethiopia
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an international medical and humanitarian organization, announces the restart of activities in Gambella and Somali regions of Ethiopia. Press Release - 7 Jun 2022
Access to Healthcare
“I don’t feel heartache, it’s deep in my soul” – The mental health needs in Ukraine
MSF teams are seeing a spectrum of mental health problems in people as a result of the war Crisis Update - 6 Jun 2022
COVID-19 Coronavirus
MSF to governments negotiating at WTO: get it right and adopt the real TRIPS Waiver
To effectively increase people’s access to all COVID medical tools, governments must return to TRIPS Waiver proposed over 20 months ago. Article - 6 Jun 2022
Access to Healthcare
North Kivu: Tens of thousands of people displaced by new wave of violence
People are living in very precarious conditions, with no proper shelter, limited access to clean water and lack of food Project Update - 3 Jun 2022
Access to Healthcare
Severe health consequences expected for people of South Sudan as sudden funding cuts take effect
With a fragile health infrastructure largely dependent on donor aid, MSF is extremely concerned about the immediate and long-term effect of these sudden cuts on the already compromised ability of people to access healthcare in the country Press Release - 2 Jun 2022
Access to medicines
German government must push BioNTech to urgently transfer mRNA vaccine technology
MSF urged the German government, which supported BioNTech’s vaccine research and development with hundreds of millions of euros in public funding, to push the corporation to urgently transfer mRNA vaccine technology to manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries. Press Release - 31 May 2022
Central African Republic: MSF condemns the killing of a colleague, shot multiple times in Moyenne-Sido
A staff member from MSF died on Saturday 28 May after being shot three times by an individual employed by the armed forces of the Central African Republic (CAR) in the northwestern prefecture of Ouham. Press Release - 31 May 2022
Paediatric Health