Brazil: COVID-19 leaves Amazonas health system saturated, overloaded and struggling
January 22, 2021The health system in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, in northwestern Brazil, has collapsed for the second time. Although hospitals have been adding COVID-19 bed capacity at an astonishing rate, the numbers of new patients with the coronavirus have continued to grow even faster,...
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Access to medicines: Will history repeat itself?
January 19, 2021Rebutting pharma’s rejection of a global COVID-19 IP waiver By Felipe Carvalho, Yuanqiong Hu, Leena Menghaney In response to the COVID-19 “TRIPS waiver” proposal submitted by South Africa and India for a temporary waiver from certain pharmaceutical intellectual property (IP) obligations at...
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COVID-19: Governments must act fast on consensus supporting historic move to suspend monopolies during pandemic
December 15, 2020Over 100 countries support the landmark proposal Geneva —Ahead of a critical meeting at the World Trade Organization (WTO) tomorrow — and against the backdrop of COVID-19 cases surging globally — the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières /Doctors...
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COVID-19: Pfizer and Moderna vaccines can only be scaled up globally if many more suppliers can produce
December 8, 2020Geneva – As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) starts meeting today and later this month to discuss emergency use authorisation of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccine candidates, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warns that any eventual...
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Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 2 – June to August 2020
December 2, 2020This report is the second of the accountability reports MSF is producing on our COVID-19 response. Read also the first report, covering the period March - May 2020. The COVID-19 global health crisis continues to hold the world firmly in its grip....
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COVID-19: Governments must support landmark proposal to waive COVID-19 patents
November 19, 2020GENEVA - Ahead of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks to consider a landmark request to waive certain intellectual property (IP) during the COVID-19 pandemic – put forward by India and South Africa in October – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on all...
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MSF: Governments must demand pharma make all COVID-19 vaccine licensing deals public
November 11, 2020Terms of a deal disclosed show that we cannot rely on pharma’s goodwill to do the right thing, even in a pandemic. Geneva, 11 November 2020 – After the worrying terms of a deal struck between pharmaceutical corporation AstraZeneca and...
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Syria: Dozens of people treated following an airstrike in Idlib
October 27, 2020On the morning of Monday 26 October, an airstrike hit an area in the north of Idlib governorate, northwest Syria. Local media outlets have reported more than 75 deaths and another 135 injured so far. The vast majority of the...
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Greece: Negligent and dangerous COVID-19 response in Vathy camp, Samos
October 26, 2020Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urging the Greek authorities to immediately scale up their response to COVID-19 in Vathy camp on Samos island and transfer people at high risk to safe accommodation on Greece’s mainland or in other...
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5 reasons a new proposal by India and South Africa could be a gamechanger in the COVID-19 response
October 11, 20205 reasons a new proposal by India and South Africa could be a gamechanger in the COVID-19 response. And why ALL governments should support it. On October 2, 2020, India and South Africa submitted a landmark proposal to the World Trade...
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Access to Medicines: In landmark move, India and South Africa propose no patents on COVID-19 medicines, tools during pandemic
October 7, 2020Governments make request to WTO for intellectual property waiver for all countries until herd immunity reached Geneva - In a landmark move, India and South Africa on 2 October asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow all countries to...
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Tackling COVID-19 in Hebron, the epicentre of the outbreak in Palestine
September 29, 2020Palestine is experiencing a spike in COVID-19 cases, both in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Of the more than 43,000 cases confirmed in the West Bank since the start of the pandemic, more than a third have been in Hebron governorate...
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