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COVID-19: MSF launches our largest ever response in Belgium

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With just over 1,000 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for a population of 11 million, Belgium is one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic, coming close behind Italy and Spain. Despite Belgium’s highly developed health system, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched our largest-ever response in the country to support key areas, including infection control in hospitals, care for the … Read more

Northwest Syria: “COVID-19 adds another layer of complexity to an already catastrophic situation”

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Cristian Reynders, field coordinator for MSF operations in northwest Syria, explains what the potential spread of COVID-19 would mean in Idlib and how MSF is preparing for it. Not so long ago, COVID-19 was not yet making headlines worldwide. On the TV news, you’d watch reports on various non-pandemic-related topics. Many of these concerned the … Read more

Italy: COVID-19 pandemic brings new challenges to well-developed healthcare systems

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Dr Claudia Lodesani, MSF president and emergency coordinator for COVID-19 in Italy, explains how our teams can assist her country’s well-developed health system to deal with the new challenge of a pandemic. What can MSF do to help during this COVID-19 crisis? Before, the health services, here in Italy, as in most European countries, were focused on … Read more

“Everybody here is working beyond their limits”: Inside the COVID-19 response in Italy

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MSF medical teams have joined the fight against COVID-19 as the new coronavirus disease spreads to more than 200 countries. Project coordinator Dr Chiara Lepora is overseeing our response in Lodi province, north Italy, where we are supporting three hospitals, as well as aged care facilities in central Italy. She shares her experience working alongside Italian doctors and nurses on the … Read more

COVID-19: MSF steps up COVID-19 response in Europe

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has expanded activities in response to COVID-19  in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, Norway, Greece and Belgium. Our teams are supporting nursing homes for the elderly, assisting other vulnerable people, such as the homeless and migrants, and providing technical support and training. Describing our COVID-19 response in Europe, Dr Christos … Read more

COVID-19: MSF calls for no patents or profiteering on COVID-19 drugs, tests, and vaccines

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GENEVA/NEW YORK — Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has called for no patents or profiteering on drugs, tests, or vaccines used for the COVID-19 pandemic, and for governments to prepare to suspend and override patents and take other measures, such as price controls, to ensure availability, reduce prices and save more lives. Already, Canada, … Read more

COVID-19: MSF steps up COVID-19 response with activities in Spain

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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is stepping up our response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic by starting medical, logistical and strategic support activities in Spain. We will be leveraging our experience and expertise in managing epidemics in fragile contexts, in working in the country. According to the latest official figures, the situation in Spain is very … Read more

DRC Ebola outbreak: How the Ebola response failed the people of DRC

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Today as the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, the world’s second-worst Ebola outbreak, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is finally nearing its end. Over the past months, the number of Ebola cases has finally dwindled. Having lasted over 18 months and resulting in the deaths of over 2,250 people, we are now in a countdown to … Read more

5 barriers from Big Pharma preventing people getting lifesaving TB drugs

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Tuberculosis (TB) is not a disease of the past. Every year, 1.5 million people die of it – that’s more than 4,000 people every day. But pharma companies are not providing the SOLUTION as you might expect.  Here we list 5 BARRIERS which pharma corporation Johnson and Johnson (J&J) and other Big Pharma are creating that … Read more

World Tuberculosis Day: “It’s time” to end the suffering and accelerate access to all oral regimen

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Mumbai (India) – As of February 2020, the MSF private clinic in Govandi, Mumbai has initiated 188 drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) patients on treatment regimen which includes Bedaquiline and Delamanid.  Globally, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2018 with India bearing the largest share of global TB burden (27%) much more than … Read more