MSF supports Emergency Care Units in Porto Velho, Brazil. Due to the over-saturated health system as a result of COVID-19, the UPAs take in more complex patients than they were designed to handle

Photograph by Diego Baravelli

Letter |

14 April 2021

Letter from civil society organisations to World Trade Organization Director General on access to COVID-19 medical tools

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South Africa TRIPS waiver protest in front of US embassy

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12 October 2021

COVID-19

Break the TRIPS Waiver deadlock!

Doctor Banza Ilunga, clinical doctor at the COVID19 Treatment Center (CTCO) housed by the Referral Kinkole Hospital (HGR), takes care of hospitalized patients in this establishment on the downtown of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Photograph by Charly Kasereka

Press release |

11 October 2021

COVID-19

MSF responds to news of Merck filing for US FDA Emergency Use Authorization for the potential oral COVID-19 treatment molnupiravir

3 min

870 million estimated doses a handful of high-income countries will have hoarded in 2021

Newsletter |

08 October 2021

COVID-19

Redistribute excess COVID-19 vaccines to people who need them most

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Technical brief |

07 October 2021

COVID-19

COVID-19 Vaccine Redistribution to Save Lives Now

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Newsletter |

03 October 2021

COVID-19

The Waiver campaign is one year old. It’s not a time to celebrate but a time to act.

Sister Zethembiso Majola reads out thank you letters from the first COVID-19 patients to be discharged from the Livingstone Hospital basement ward, a COVID-19 ward for high acuity patients that could not have been opened without the support of MSF. Livingstone Hospital and the health system in Nelson Mandela Metro in the Eastern Cape has been suffering from a catastrophic shortage of medical staff, and MSF staff have been integrated here since mid-November, preventing unnecessary deaths.

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Feature story

Feature story |

01 October 2021

COVID-19

3 reasons why we need a Waiver on monopolies of ALL COVID-19 medical tools

5 min

COVID-19 wards and COVID-19 suspect wards are also acute internal medicine wards, where there are a range of comorbidities to be managed.

Photograph by Chris Allan

Press release |

30 September 2021

COVID-19

MSF urges Sanofi to hand over abandoned mRNA vaccine candidate to WHO mRNA vaccine tech transfer hub in South Africa

5 min

MSF's medical team visited Ana and Marcos de Oliveira at their home in the Grande Bom Jardim territory, Fortaleza, a few days after they tested positive for COVID-19 in one of our mobile clinics.

Photograph by Mariana Abdalla

Press release |

24 September 2021

COVID-19

Newest COVID-19 treatment recommended by WHO must be made accessible to everyone who needs it

5 min