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      India’s COVID-19 crisis shows urgency for countries to back the waiver for vaccine patents
      India
      India’s COVID-19 crisis shows urgency for countries to back the waiver for vaccine patents
      Hong Kong - The second wave of COVID-19 is reaching extremely alarming levels in India. As of 18 May, the total number of active COVID-19 cases in Ind...
      COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
      Central Mediterranean: Doctors Without Borders, saving lives at sea for the seventh consecutive year
      Europe
      Central Mediterranean: Doctors Without Borders, saving lives at sea for the seventh consecutive year
      Amsterdam: Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announces today the relaunch of its search and rescue activities in the central Me...
      Search and Rescue
      Gaza: “Inexcusable and intolerable” Israeli air strikes kill scores of civilians, damage Doctors Without Borders clinic
      Palestine
      Gaza: “Inexcusable and intolerable” Israeli air strikes kill scores of civilians, damage Doctors Without Borders clinic
      On Sunday, May 16, 2021, Israeli air strikes in the area of the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic in Gaza city killed at...
      War and conflict
      Heavy Israeli bombing pushing Gaza to the edge of catastrophe
      Palestine
      Heavy Israeli bombing pushing Gaza to the edge of catastrophe
      In the wake of violence in Jerusalem that left hundreds of Palestinians, including children, with injuries, the international medical organisation Doc...
      War and conflict
      Responding to emergencies amid the conflict in CAR
      Central African Republic
      Responding to emergencies amid the conflict in CAR
      Since late December, the situation in Central African Republic (CAR) has quickly worsened, as clashes between a coalition of non-state armed groups an...
      War and conflict
      Emergency response
      Border clashes leave thousands homeless and in shock
      Kyrgyzstan
      Border clashes leave thousands homeless and in shock
      Some 30,000 people in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken and Leilek districts have been forced to abandon their villages after violent clashes, including exchanges o...
      War and conflict
      Refugees
      Not only vaccines: Oxygen must be at the heart of the COVID-19 response
      Not only vaccines: Oxygen must be at the heart of the COVID-19 response
      In a briefing paper released today, titled “Gasping For Air”, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sa...
      COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
      COVID-19 vaccines
      US decision to drop IP on COVID-19 vaccines 'monumental'
      US decision to drop IP on COVID-19 vaccines 'monumental'
      Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontierès (MSF) applauds the Biden-Harris Administration’s decision to support waiving intellectual property pr...
      COVID-19 vaccines
      COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)
      Access to medicines
      Vaccination
      Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19
      India
      Four questions on India’s second wave of COVID-19
      The second wave of COVID-19 in India has been devastating, with a catastrophic rise in the numbers of new infections in recent weeks. The country has ...
      COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease)