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Nobuhle Titus, an MSF nurse technical support, packs sputum samples collected from a Luyanda site in the town of Vuma. Luyanda sites She collects and transports the samples from MSF’s Luyanda sites to the hospital where they are tested. Luyanda sites provide a link between patients and hospitals where patients can have sputum samples tested and receive information on TB and other diseases. This process makes the process of testing TB easier for patients who often stay far away from the hospital.

Photograph by Tadeu Andre

Press release |

14 October 2020

MSF response to the release of WHO Global TB Report 2020

2 min

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Photograph by Jacob Burns

Press release |

07 October 2020

COVID-19

In landmark move, India and South Africa propose no patents on COVID-19 medicines, tools during pandemic

4 min

An MSF Health Promoter speaks with people about how to keep safe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photograph by Tadeu Andre

Press release |

03 August 2020

COVID-19

MSF applauds South Africa for championing health safeguards at meeting of WTO members

4 min

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Photograph by Albert Masias

Press release |

28 July 2020

COVID-19

COVID-19 test maker Cepheid overcharges and undersupplies WHO effort for developing countries

5 min

At MSF’s post-operative care hospital in Mosul (Iraq), infection and prevention control (IPC) measures are implemented. One of the pillars of IPC consists in cleaning, sterilizing and sanitizing. Here, an MSF nurse is preparing equipment prior to a surgery.

Photograph by Mario Fawaz

Press release |

09 July 2020

Antimicrobial resistance

MSF response to global launch of: ‘A New Pharma Initiative takes on the Antibiotic Innovative Challenge’

MSF protested in front of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on January 22, 2020, demanding the pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J) make the tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline available for all people with drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) for no more than a dollar a day. The price of this crucial drug must be lowered to reflect the joint contributions made in the research and development of this drug by taxpayers, and the global scientific and TB community, including by MSF itself.

Photograph by Negin Allamehzadeh

Press release |

06 July 2020

Johnson & Johnson TB drug price reduction is important step, and governments need to urgently scale up better treatment

6 min

John * and Jean * hold each other’s arms in the CHK. Jean was diagnosed with HIV in 2010. He was hospitalized in June 2019 for the first time. A few weeks after his release, he had to return urgently for a new hospitalization.

Photograph by Pablo Garrigos

Press release |

06 July 2020

HIV/AIDS

MSF response to the release of UNAIDS 2020 Global AIDS Update Report

3 min

The MSF treatment centre for COVID-19 patients at the Amirou Boubacar Diallo National Hospital in Niamey, Niger, has 50 beds, with the potential to accommodate up to 100 beds in case of a peak in patient numbers.

Photograph by Nathalie San Gil

Press release |

01 July 2020

COVID-19

Africa

African Union says urgent need to address patents and technology barriers for access to future COVID-19 vaccines

4 min