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    Responding to COVID-19 in Myanmar: a letter from the team on the ground
    Myanmar
    Responding to COVID-19 in Myanmar: a letter from the team on the ground
    With 2021 about to come to an end, we, as the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team in Myanmar, are looking back at our COVID-...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Pakistan: Supporting COVID-19 vaccination activities in Karachi
    Pakistan
    Pakistan: Supporting COVID-19 vaccination activities in Karachi
    Tucked away down a dusty side street in Karachi, Pakistan, is the rural health centre of Sher Shah where Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Front...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Vaccination
    North Lebanon: Doctors Without Borders Starts COVID-19 Vaccination in Remote Areas
    Lebanon
    North Lebanon: Doctors Without Borders Starts COVID-19 Vaccination in Remote Areas
    Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is contributing to Lebanon’s vaccination efforts in the remote areas of Wadi Khaled, and Khat...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Vaccination
    Northern Syria: Health system overwhelmed in most severe COVID-19 outbreak yet
    Syria
    Northern Syria: Health system overwhelmed in most severe COVID-19 outbreak yet
    Northern Syria - October 13th, 2021 - Northern Syria is experiencing its most severe recorded wave of COVID-19 yet, with needs fast outpacing limited ...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    3 reasons why we need a Waiver on monopolies of all COVID-19 medical tools
    3 reasons why we need a Waiver on monopolies of all COVID-19 medical tools
    One year ago, and seven months into the COVID-19 pandemic, India and South Africa put forward the TRIPS Waiver proposal: a groundbreaking solution to ...
    Access to medicines
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    Following full FDA approval, Pfizer and BioNTech must urgently share COVID-19 vaccine know-how to increase global production and supply
    Following full FDA approval, Pfizer and BioNTech must urgently share COVID-19 vaccine know-how to increase global production and supply
    Sharing mRNA vaccine technology with manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries – including in Africa where seven manufacturers could begin pro...
    Access to medicines
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    COVID-19 vaccines
    COVID-19 in Yemen: Fears and rumours - Why patients arrive late to the treatment centres?
    Yemen
    COVID-19 in Yemen: Fears and rumours - Why patients arrive late to the treatment centres?
    One year into the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen, stigma, disinformation, fear of detention and lack of knowledge on presence of isolation centres continu...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    War and conflict
    COVID-19 hits Yemen again, testing a broken healthcare system
    Yemen
    COVID-19 hits Yemen again, testing a broken healthcare system
    Inside al-Kuwait hospital in Sana’a a chain-link fence separates two worlds. There is the world outside the fence where a strange disease is little ac...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    War and conflict
    COVID-19 monopoly waiver: EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway must stop blocking negotiations on landmark pandemic monopoly waiver
    COVID-19 monopoly waiver: EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway must stop blocking negotiations on landmark pandemic monopoly waiver
    Ahead of the next World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting onthe landmark pandemic monopoly waiver proposal—the ‘TRIPS waiver’—theinternational humanita...
    COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
    Access to medicines
    vacc