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Tigray Crisis: “We are suffering from a lack of medical care”
Fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people. Inside Tigray, most of the displaced people stay with the host community, while tens of thousands live in informal sites or are still hiding in the bush or the mountains. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned about the humanitarian situation of hundreds of thousands of people who have been deprived of medical care for months and have received little humanitarian assistance.
All news3/9/2021
MSF International President appeals to governments stonewalling on landmark proposal
As governments meet on Wednesday 10 March for another round of talks at the World Trade Organization (WTO) , MSF urged the small number of governments that continue to block a landmark waiver on intellectual property (IP) during the pandemic to immediately reverse their stonewalling and allow formal negotiations at the WTO to start. The temporary waiver would apply to certain IP on COVID-19 medical tools and technologies until herd immunity is reached. It was originally proposed by India and South Africa in October 2020, and is now officially backed by 58 sponsoring governments, with around 100 countries supporting the proposal overall.
Bringing family planning closer to home
Self-injectable options can overcome barriers to contraception.
MSF denounces unsafe environment in Al-Hol camp in wake of staff killing
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, MSF expresses its shock and sadness at the incidents and its profound concerns about the insecurity facing camp residents, two-thirds of whom are children.
MSF starts intervention in North Kivu in support of community affected by EBOLA
Less than a year after the end of two Ebola outbreaks in the country, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces the 12th Ebola outbreak in hits history, once again in the “Grand Nord” region, badly hit by the disease between 2018 and 2020.
Focus3/1/2021
Self-Care
Self-care means giving people the tools, the information and the choice to take a central role in their own health and healthcare. It's an approach that MSF is supporting for more and more people around the world, because we have seen how it can improve access and quality of healthcare.
All news2/23/2021
Self-care tips for managing your own health
Take charge of your own health by becoming more familiar with your body and monitoring it regularly.
Five questions on the Ebola outbreak
On 14 February 2021, the authorities in Guinea declared a new Ebola outbreak. As one of the key medical organisations responding in the huge 2014 – 2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) immediately started mobilising a team of Ebola-experienced specialists to form the core of a response team. Anja Wolz is the Ebola Emergency Coordinator overseeing MSF’s response and outlined the current situation in this interview.
Southern Africa needs the right COVID-19 vaccines, at the right price – right now
MSF urges wealthy countries and pharma companies to immediately equitably distribute the right vaccines, at the right price, to low- and middle-income countries.