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Médecins Sans Frontières

March 31, 2020

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

Médecins Sans Frontières has called for an end to patents or profiteering on drugs, tests, or vaccines used for the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 6, 2019

Medical charity says US-Mexico decision puts asylum seekers in extreme danger

A medical charity says the policy that forces people seeking asylum in the US to wait out legal proceedings in violent areas of Mexico puts them in extreme danger.
July 3, 2019

Gilead 'fails to keep promise on access to lifesaving drug for people living with HIV'

Pharmaceutical corporation Gilead Sciences has failed to deliver on promises to make an important drug available to people suffering from a life-threatening HIV-related infection, said Médecins Sans Frontières.
December 29, 2018

MSF calls on governments to scale up oral TB treatment

Médecins Sans Frontières has welcomed new World Health Organisation treatment guidelines that recommend drug-resistant tuberculosis be treated with oral drugs only, including newer, more potent drugs with fewer side effects.
December 18, 2018

Médecins Sans Frontières works to prevent future outbreaks in cholera hotspot

Since early July, Niger has been battling its worst cholera outbreak in years.
October 8, 2018

Helping South Sudan's demobilised child soldiers come to terms with the past

In South Sudan’s Yambio county, child soldiers who were forced to fight during the country’s long civil war are being demobilised. Some struggle with all that they have experienced. Médecins Sans Frontières is running a mental health support programme to help the children come to terms with their experiences as they reintegrate in their communities.
August 17, 2018

Access for humanitarian agencies blocked in Myanmar

Independent humanitarian agencies remain largely blocked from accessing vulnerable communities in northern Rakhine, raising major concerns about unmet medical and humanitarian needs.
August 14, 2018

European governments 'must assign place of safety for people rescued from Mediterranean'

Humanitarian organisations are calling for a place of safety so that people rescued from the Mediterranean can disembark.
August 2, 2018

Rescue boat returns to Central Mediterranean

MSF says the rescue boat Aquarius will not return rescued people to Libya as it is not a place of safety.
July 15, 2018

Mediterranean deaths soar as Europe blocks humanitarian assistance at sea

Médecins Sans Frontières says there has been a cold-blooded decision to leave men, women and children to drown in the Mediterranean Sea.