Lipi Upadhyay

Urgent call for Europe to improve treatment access for tuberculosis: Many TB medicines and formulations accessible in lower- and middle-income countries remain unaffordable or unavailable in Europe

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Berlin, 6 June 2024: As the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded a meeting with European health officials and civil society to improve access to tuberculosis (TB) medicines in the European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA), Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), along with TB activists, urge European countries to maintain this momentum by taking immediate … Read more

Marking 40 years of humanitarian medical action in Mozambique: Médecins Sans Frontières hosts panel discussion in Maputo

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Maputo, Mozambique – Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) will tomorrow host a panel discussion to reflect on its medical and humanitarian work for the past 40 years in Mozambique and discuss its challenges. Since 1984, MSF has been collaborating with local authorities and communities in Mozambique to respond to emergencies, delivering life-saving medical assistance … Read more

MSF OCB roadmap to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030

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MSF Operational Center of Brussels (OCB), one of the six MSF headquarters that deploy and manage humanitarian operations worldwide, has published a roadmap to reduce its carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and lower its environmental footprint. OCB environmental roadmap outlines tangible solutions to reduce the negative environmental impact of its operations whilst maintaining and … Read more

Need knows no difference between refugees and Sudanese host communities: This is Um Rakuba

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Imagine the scene: a busy refugee camp in El Gedaref state, on the edge of eastern Sudan, close to the Ethiopian border. This is Um Rakuba, where people in desperate need of medical care wait patiently for their turn at the camp’s hospital. The camp was established in November 2020, following the influx of thousands … Read more

Tapping into solar energy to power emergency response: MSF logisticians are testing ways to supply energy for medical activities in places with unreliable electricity

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Emergency medical response often relies on electricity, yet this crucial resource can be difficult to access in insecure settings. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been trying to find sustainable solutions to this obstacle. In places where there is no electricity, humanitarian organizations like MSF typically rely on diesel-run generators, but it can be … Read more

MSF responds to the outcomes of PPR negotiations at WHA77

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Geneva, 4 June 2024 – In concluding the 77th World Health Assembly, World Health Organization (WHO) member states adopted a set of historic amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), which establishes the definition of a ‘pandemic emergency’; includes several provisions addressing global inequity in access to health products during public health emergencies of international … Read more

Record Admissions of Severely Malnourished Children Overwhelm MSF Medical Facilities in Northern Nigeria

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Abuja, 4 June 2024: In recent weeks, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) inpatient facilities in northern Nigeria have recorded an extraordinary increase in admissions of severely malnourished children with life-threatening complications, with two times more admissions than last year in some locations. This is horrifying as the high influx of patients, and the increase in acute … Read more

Gavi’s next strategy must make sure to reach the 10 million children in fragile and humanitarian settings who are missing vaccines

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Where are we now? This week, on 6-7 June 2024, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is meeting in Geneva to approve and endorse the one-page framework for Gavi 6.0, which outlines its strategy for the five-year period from 2026-2030. Gavi, which is funded by public and private donors, was set up nearly 25 … Read more

MSF’s Continued Support: One Year After the Kakhovka Dam Disaster

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The Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mobile clinic team is returning from the Kherson region after an intense day of seeing patients. The road goes along the river Inhulets. Cows are grazing on the green slopes along the bank, and the fields are ripening, but the destroyed buildings in every village we pass and the “Beware … Read more

GAZA: New crossing points and ‘floating dock’ are cosmetic changes, as humanitarian access disintegrates in Gaza, warn aid agencies

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Jerusalem, 28 May 2024 – As Israeli attacks intensify on Rafah, the unpredictable trickle of aid into Gaza has created a mirage of improved access while the humanitarian response is in reality on the verge of collapse, warn 20 aid agencies. The latest Israeli attacks on a displacement camp near UN aid facilities in Rafah reportedly … Read more