Lipi Upadhyay

Mediterranean migration: European leaders must urgently allow disembarkation of 104 survivors

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SOS MEDITERRANEE and Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) call on a broad coalition of European States to urgently facilitate the assignment of a port to the Ocean Viking and to finally put in place a predictable and coordinated disembarkation mechanism, as discussed in Luxembourg earlier this month. The Ocean Viking, a rescue ship chartered by SOS MEDITERRANEE … Read more

Syria: Multiple casualties from shelling on village in northwestern Syria

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BRUSSELS – The conflict in northwestern Syria continues to cause fear, displacement and acute medical needs among people. Shelling on Thursday 24 October on the village of Janoudia in Idlib province, northwestern Syria, resulted in an influx of 17 casualties being rushed to a nearby hospital that MSF supports in a co-management partnership. Three of … Read more

South Sudan: “The only way to move around the hospital now is by boat”

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MSF medical team leader Benedetta Capelli is just back from Pibor, in South Sudan, where rising floodwaters have engulfed MSF’s hospital and much of the surrounding area. She describes what she saw on the ground. Our hospital in Pibor is on the outskirts of town, about 100 metres from the River Gumuruk, with the river creating a loop … Read more

South Sudan: People stranded, cut off from care in severe flooding

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JUBA – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched emergency assessments in the east and northeast of South Sudan where severe flooding has left thousands of people stranded in inaccessible areas, threatening to make worse an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis. We are urging all organisations to mobilise resources to mitigate the impact of rising flood … Read more

Northeast Syria: MSF forced to evacuate staff due to extreme volatility in the region

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AMSTERDAM/NORTHEAST SYRIA – Following the launch of Turkish military operations and the extremely volatile situation in northeast Syria, Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has taken the difficult decision to suspend the majority of our activities and evacuate all our international staff from northeast Syria. Since Wednesday 9 October, the extreme volatile situation in northeast Syria has … Read more

Access to medicines: MSF demands Johnson & Johnson reduce price of lifesaving TB drug

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GENEVA – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a global campaign calling on pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to lower the price of its anti-tuberculosis medicine bedaquiline to no more than US$1 per day for people everywhere who need it, in order to allow scale-up of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) treatment and reduce deaths.   … Read more

MSF calls for new price of anti-TB drug delamanid to be lowered and offered outside of South Africa

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Geneva – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) acknowledges the lower price offered to the government of South Africa for newer anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug, delamanid, but calls for it to be significantly lower and expanded to all countries in need. Mylan, which licenses the drug from the patent-holder Otsuka, will charge US$940* for a six-month … Read more

DRC: Ebola response overshadows already fragile health system

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In Mabalako, a rural health zone in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Ebola epidemic has taken its toll on the fragile health system. Many doctors and health workers have been hired by the internationally-funded Ebola response, leaving health centres and the regional hospital short of staff and financial … Read more

Access to medicines: 6 things Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know!

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For decades, the global pharmaceutical industry has spread a deceptive narrative justifying the ever-increasing, sky-high prices of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics as something necessary and inevitable. MSF’s Access Campaign has repeatedly challenged this deadly narrative, calling for affordable access to lifesaving medicines, prioritisation of people’s health over profits, and transparency around the research and development (R&D) process. … Read more

DRC ebola outbreak: Independent Ebola vaccination committee is needed to overcome lack of WHO transparency

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PARIS/GOMA – More than a year into the ongoing Ebola outbreak in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the disease has killed over 2,000 people. The mortality rate in this outbreak is around 67 per cent [1], which is comparable with the mortality rate in the 2014-2016 West Africa outbreak, when neither therapeutic treatments, nor a … Read more