Syrians in Lebanon struggle to access healthcare amid fear of deportations
May 17, 2023Syrian refugees in Lebanon are finding it increasingly difficult to access vital medical services due to reports of forced deportation and restrictions on their freedom of movement. Teams from Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and their partners have heard...
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Going with the Orinoco Flow
May 16, 2023Since 2022, MSF teams have been supporting local health services in the remote Delta Amacuro region, a vast wetland of swamps and jungle on Venezuela's Atlantic shore, home to the Waraos, one of the country's largest ethnic group. Steve Hyde,...
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Access to point-of-care tests for people with advanced HIV under threat as diagnostics corporations to stop production
May 11, 2023MSF calls on US based corporations Abbott and BD to ensure adequate supply of CD4 tests and equipment. Geneva, 11 May 2023 – In a new report released today, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that access to point-of-care...
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MSF demands J&J give up its patent monopoly on TB drug to put lives over profits
April 27, 2023Access to TB drug bedaquiline, a backbone medicine for drug-resistant TB treatment regimens, remains out of reach for too many Geneva, 26 April 2023 – Ahead of Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) annual shareholders meeting, the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins...
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Pharmaceutical corporation ViiV must improve its failing access strategy for lifesaving HIV prevention drug
March 31, 2023With affordable generics likely years away, ViiV must make information public on supply of long-acting cabotegravir and global distribution plan to ensure access for people in high HIV burden low- and middle-income countries Geneva, 30 March 2023 – Today Médecins...
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Malawi: Managing cervical cancer in a country with limited treatment options
February 5, 2023Cervical cancer accounts for 37 per cent of new cancers in women in Malawi. Since 2018, MSF has been working to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer and bring down deaths from the disease in the districts of Blantyre and...
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Closed centres for refugees arriving on the Greek islands: one year later, “everyone is suffering from psychological distress”
November 30, 2022Trying to see a doctor; getting hold of insulin treatment for diabetes; seeking legal advice prior to an asylum interview. All of these are a challenge for the refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers stuck in the isolated and highly securitised Zervou...
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MSF fights chronic kidney disease in southern Guatemala
August 11, 2022Three years ago, Salomón discovered he was seriously ill with kidney disease. This happened after he was bitten by a snake in a sugarcane field during the zafra - as the sugarcane harvest period is commonly known - in the...
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