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Palestine: Vaccines urgently needed as Palestine struggles under surge of COVID-19

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Since February, another heavy wave of COVID-19 has swept through the West Bank, Palestine. Over 20,000 patients are currently being treated for the new coronavirus, adding further pressure to an already fragile healthcare system, and leaving medical staff struggling to provide adequate care. Both the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authorities must immediately significantly increase efforts to slow the … Read more

Tuberculosis: Trial of multidrug-resistant TB treatment ends enrolment early after independent board indicates new regimen is superior

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LONDON – A trial aiming to find a better treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has stopped enrolling patients early after its independent data safety and monitoring board indicated that the regimen being studied is superior to current care, and more patient data was extremely unlikely to change the trial’s outcome. TB-PRACTECAL, a phase II/III clinical … Read more

Ethiopia Tigray crisis: People left with few healthcare options in Tigray as facilities looted, destroyed

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ADDIS ABABA – Health facilities across Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been looted, vandalised and destroyed in a deliberate and widespread attack on healthcare, according to teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Of 106 health facilities visited by MSF teams between mid-December 2020 and early March 2021, nearly 70% had been looted, and more than 30% had … Read more

Syria: MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing

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AMSTERDAM – In the wake of the killing of one of its staff members and the injury of three others in Al-Hol camp for displaced people in northeast Syria, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) expresses our shock and sadness at the incidents, and our profound concerns about the insecurity facing camp residents, two-thirds of whom are … Read more

MSF to wealthy countries: Don’t block and ruin the potential of a landmark waiver on monopolies during the pandemic

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Geneva, Switzerland — Ahead of the next round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to discuss a proposal by South Africa and India to waive monopolies on COVID-19 medical tools during the pandemic, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called on the wealthy countries opposing the proposal not to block it and ruin … Read more

Brazil: COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling

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The health system in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in northwestern Brazil, has collapsed for the second time. Although hospitals have been adding COVID-19 bed capacity at an astonishing rate, the numbers of new patients with the coronavirus have continued to grow even faster, meaning the entire health system is saturated and overloaded. More seriously, the city’s capacity to … Read more

Yellow Fever: Fractioning doses of yellow fever vaccine can help save more lives

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NEW YORK/PARIS – Giving people a fraction of a yellow fever vaccine is effective and could help vaccinate millions more people during emergencies, according to results of a recent study led by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontiéres’ (MSF) research arm Epicentre, published in The Lancet. These clinical trial results, which found that giving a person one-fifth of the standard … Read more

COVID-19: Governments must act fast on consensus supporting historic move to suspend monopolies during pandemic

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Over 100 countries support the landmark proposal Geneva —Ahead of a critical meeting at the World Trade Organization (WTO) tomorrow — and against the backdrop of COVID-19 cases surging globally — the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors Without Borders (MSF) urged all countries to act in solidarity and build consensus around the … Read more

Yemen: Civilians wounded and killed in indiscriminate frontline hostilities

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BRUSSELS – Renewed conflict on the frontlines to the south of Hudaydah Port on Yemen’s Red Sea Coast has become among the most intense in the country, and the number of civilians needing major war-trauma surgery is rising. Since October, the MSF trauma hospital in the nearby town of Mocha has treated 122 war-wounded patients – … Read more

COVID-19: Pfizer and Moderna vaccines can only be scaled up globally if many more suppliers can produce

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Geneva – As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) starts meeting today and later this month to discuss emergency use authorisation of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warns that any eventual COVID-19 vaccine approval won’t be enough to solve the global pandemic unless corporations take urgent … Read more