A study conducted by Epicentre and other research organisations confirms the importance of vaccination against Ebola during epidemics: vaccination reduces not only the risk of infection, but also the risk of death. An observational study conducted by Epicentre, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) medical research and epidemiology centre, the results of which are published [...]Read More... from MSF: Vaccination halves mortality among people infected with Ebola| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Together, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria account for millions of deaths around the world every year – most of them in countries already struggling to cope with under-resourced health systems. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) works directly in all three of these ongoing epidemics: We are the largest nongovernmental provider of TB care in [...]Read More... from HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In light of the global impact of the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) established a process to negotiate an agreement to better prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics (commonly known as the “pandemic accord”). Since February 2023, governments have been negotiating the text of the accord, and an outcome is expected [...]Read More... from Five Things We Need to See in the Pandemic Accord| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Ahead of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) protested alongside other global health activists outside the headquarters of US corporation Danaher, which owns diagnostics maker Cepheid, demanding they drop the price to US$5 for all their ‘GeneXpert’ medical tests that they sell in low- and middle-income countries, for diseases such as [...]Read More... from ‘Time for Five’ coalition launches global petition targeting medical test maker ...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on the pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to immediately provide transparency on the current available volume and planned geographic distribution of the HIV prevention medicine long-acting cabotegravir (CAB-LA) in order to urgently expedite the drug’s access for people in high-HIV-burden low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where it could have the biggest [...]Read More... from Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must improve it...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
The following is a transcript of opening words by Jason Nickerson, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Humanitarian Representative to Canada to the Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on International Trade in May 2021. Hello, thank you for having us. We’re going to speak to two issues that are part of the Committee’s study, from the perspective of our [...]Read More... from MSF tells MPs that Canada must do more to address inequitable global access to vacc...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Signing confidentiality clauses on supply & pricing blocks transparency and accountability Today, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) asked ViiV Healthcare to withdraw conditions in negotiations for a purchase agreement that are holding up procurement of the preventative HIV drug cabotegravir long-acting (CAB-LA) for key and vulnerable populations*, due to the pharmaceutical corporation’s last-minute insertion of terms [...]Read More... from MSF refuses to sign ViiV...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In October 2020, we delivered a petition with more than 91,000 signatures to Canada’s Minister of Health, calling on the Canadian government to take immediate steps to ensure fair, affordable and equitable access to any medicines, vaccines or other health technologies developed with Canadian public funds, including in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WATCH THE RECAP The [...]Read More... from Lives over profits petition: Foreign Committee takes on MSF’s recommendations towards more eq...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Before patients can receive the right treatment, they need the right diagnosis. Despite their vital importance, access to diagnostic tools has never attracted as much attention as access to medicines. As with medicines, the 21st Century has seen major advances in diagnostic technologies. Unfortunately, affordability and accessibility haven’t kept pace, meaning even diagnostics well-suited for [...]Read More... from Diagnosing the access problem: Canada can do more to ensure global access to...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
What better return on investment is there than supporting lifesaving services for people affected by humanitarian crises? For Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), this is a rhetorical question, as we prepare our pre-budget submission to the Government of Canada before they determine their priorities for the 2026 federal budget. Inside, we, highlight the importance [...]Read More... from Investing in Humanity: Why Canada must prioritize humanitarian assistance| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In August 2017, a coordinated campaign of violence by the Myanmar military against members of that country’s Rohingya ethnic minority drove hundreds of thousands of people to flee across Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in search of safety. [...]Read More... from The Rohingya Displacement Crisis| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Medical care is just one of the many urgent needs faced by people in crisis, who also frequently lack access to food, shelter, clean water and protection from violence. The United Nations estimates that nearly 340 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in 2023, an increase of almost 60 million over the previous [...]Read More... from Gaps in Global Aid| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continually calls on governments, pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and others to place lives before profits and commit to making essential medicines available and accessible to the patients around the world who need them most. As a humanitarian medical organization driven by the belief that everyone should have access to essential [...]Read More... from Access to Medicines| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Israeli forces and settlers have increased the use of extreme physical violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the all-out war on Gaza began in October 2023, according to a new report by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In total, at least 870 Palestinians have been killed and over 7,100 injured between [...]Read More... from West Bank, Palestine: “Inflicting harm and denying care”| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is profoundly disappointed that Canada and other G7 countries failed to use their power at this month’s G7 Leaders’ Summit to defend international humanitarian law (IHL) and the lives of civilians caught in conflict. At a time when medical care and aid workers are being deliberately targeted, humanitarian [...]Read More... from Flashquote: MSF on Canada’s missed opportunity to stand up for humanity at the G7 Summit| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Dear Members of Canada’s 45th Parliament, Congratulations on your election to the House of Commons, where all parties will bear responsibility for ensuring Canada’s government can rise to the challenges of the current global moment. You are taking on this responsibility at a time of unprecedented global upheaval. Multiple large-scale and overlapping international crises – [...]Read More... from An open letter to Canada’s newly elected Parliamentarians| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
From June 15 to 17, Canada will be hosting the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta. It will be the first time all the leaders of the G7 countries will meet this year. The meeting is taking place amid a period of global upheaval, as the world faces multiple large-scale conflicts and humanitarian crises, from Gaza [...]Read More... from Canada must stand up for International Humanitarian Law at the G7 summit| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), provides medical humanitarian care to people who have been forced to flee their homes because of violence, conflict, persecution and, increasingly, climate change. Our teams provide vital medical care at every step of people’s treacherous displacement journeys, including providing surgery and trauma care, maternal health and obstetrics services, vaccination [...]Read More... from Speech: MSF Highlights Three Urgent Humanitarian Crise...| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Discover how MSF provides critical healthcare worldwide, responding to displacement, disasters, conflict and disease outbreaks.| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
On April 28, Canadians will vote in a federal election that is taking place in a period of major global upheaval. The Members of Parliament that Canadians will elect will decide how Canada responds to a world experiencing alarming levels of conflict and crisis, and where hundreds of millions of people’s lives, safety and dignity [...]Read More... from MSF to Canada’s political leaders: “Stand up for humanity”| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Esther is a mother of three sheltering at a camp for displaced people in North Kivu, a province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She and her family have fled war three times in recent months. “I had hope of returning and getting my life back,” she recently told Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières [...]Read More... from Eastern DRC: The human cost of global humanitarian funding gaps| Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
