MSF responds to latest WHO recommendation for a COVID-19 therapeutic, baricitinib
January 14, 2022Geneva: With the World Health Organization (WHO) recommending baricitinib for the treatment of people with severe or critical COVID-19, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on governments to take immediate steps to ensure that patent monopolies do not stand in...
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Myanmar: Responding to COVID-19 during political crisis
December 31, 2021Political turmoil and the arrival of COVID-19 has left Myanmar's healthcare system shattered. With 2021 coming to an end, our team on the ground look back at our COVID-19 response, reflecting on what we can be proud of and what...
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Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 5 – May to September 2021
December 9, 2021This report is the fifth of the accountability reports MSF is producing on our COVID-19 response. You can also read the first report, covering the period March - May 2020, the second report, covering the period June - August 2020, the third report covering...
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COVID-19: In an unequal world, our response to COVID-19 cannot be one size-fits-all
December 4, 2021Dr Isabelle Defourny, MSF director of operations This opinion piece was first published in English in Al Jazeera and in French by Le Monde. Today we can say that we are entering into a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many of the countries that...
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Manipur: MSF’s COVID-19 emergency response in Imphal
November 1, 2021The second wave of COVID-19 hit India at the end of March 2021. In April, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sent doctors and nurses to work in Mumbai’s Jumbo Hospital that had a capacity for 2,000 patients. Teams also...
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Countries must not let another opportunity slip by to advance the global waiver on overcoming COVID-19 medical-tool monopolies
September 13, 2021Geneva – As countries reconvene tomorrow for another round of discussions on the “TRIPS Waiver” proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO), after a gap of over two months, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the European Union (EU),...
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Yemen: Treating COVID-19 amongst fear, stigma and misinformation
August 11, 2021One year into the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen; stigma, disinformation, fear of detention and lack of knowledge on the presence of isolation centres continue to deter people from seeking timely treatment for the disease. “Some patients stay at home for a...
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EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway must stop blocking negotiations on landmark pandemic monopoly waiver
June 7, 2021Ahead of the next World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting on the landmark pandemic monopoly waiver proposal — the ‘TRIPS waiver’ — the international humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) denounced the European Union (EU) and countries including the...
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Peru: COVID situation remains critical in the world’s worst-hit country
June 7, 2021Peru, which in recent days has revised up the number of deaths from COVID-19, currently has the highest COVID-19 mortality rate in the world. The revelation comes as the country experiences a major gap in its access to vaccines and is still...
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COVID-19: MSF responds to revised proposal on TRIPS waiver submitted to WTO by sponsoring governments
May 21, 2021Following US expression of support on 5 May, EU and other remaining opposing countries must urgently join global consensus The governments co-sponsoring the proposal to waive intellectual property on COVID-19 medical tools have just submitted a revised proposal to the World Trade...
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Year in Review 2020
May 17, 2021The year 2020 was extremely challenging for people all over the world, as they experienced extraordinary levels of disease, loss, fear and isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. In many countries where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières...
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COVID-19 in India: Fighting misinformation on the frontlines
May 12, 2021By Santosh Choure, Health Promotion Manager, Mumbai Mumbai is still seeing more than 3,000 new cases of COVID-19 every day. People are scared and many of them don’t prefer to get tested even though they have symptoms, as they’re afraid...
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