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In June and July 2016 MSF has been conducting vaccination campaigns in several refugee camps and settlements in Greece, targeting more than 4,600 children under fifteen years of age. This campaign aims at protecting refugee children with 10 antigens and preventing diseases such as pneumonia, which is the leading cause of childhood death. MSF calls on Pfizer and GSK to drop the price of the pneumonia vaccine (PCV) for governments and humanitarian organizations in emergency contexts.

Photograph by Sophia Apostolia

Press release |

14 November 2016

Vaccines

MSF welcomes Pfizer’s pneumonia vaccine price reduction for children in humanitarian emergencies

Kulsoom is 20 years old. She has just completed his treatment against hepatitis C and is now cured from the disease.

Photograph by Sa'adia Khan

Press release |

14 November 2016

Intellectual property and trade

MSF responds to latest Access to Medicines Index rankings

In New York, on Word Pneumonia Day 2015 (Nov 12), MSF volunteers attempted to deliver more than $17 million of fake cash - the equivalent of one day of profits from the pneumonia vaccines for Pfizer globally - to Pfizer's CEO Ian Read. The same day, MSF launched a global petition to ask Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to reduce the price of the pneumococcal vaccine to $5 dollars per child (for all three doses) in developing countries. Photograph by Edwin Torres

Photograph by Edwin Torres

Press release |

11 November 2016

Vaccines

Breaking news: Pfizer drops the price of the pneumonia vaccine for humanitarian organizations

Dr Ilaria Moneta discusses patients with colleagues in the pediatric ward of the MSF-supported Bangassou hospital. Photograph by Sandra Smileyv

Photograph by Sandra Smiley

Feature story |

07 November 2016

Vaccines

What's it like to have pneumonia?

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In Tajikistan, in an attempt to breakup the everyday routine for children undergoing TB treatment, MSF’s psychosocial team organises celebration parties as part of MSF’s pediatric therapeutic play programme.

Photograph by MSF

Feature story |

07 November 2016

Tajikistan

TB Patients in Tajikistan Celebrate New Treatment Access

Vector control is an important aspect of MSF´s project in Narciso Campero.

Photograph by Juan Renau

Feature story |

04 November 2016

Tropical & neglected diseases

Bolivia: MSF launches breakthrough program to detect Chagas-transmitting ‘kissing bugs’ using mobile phones

Simphiwe holds his first delamanid tablets, which have now been included into his treatment regimen for XDR-TB, October 2016.

Photograph by Sydelle Willow Smith

Press release |

26 October 2016

MSF reports on use of the new TB drugs bedaquiline and delamanid

XDR-TB patient successfully completes treatment

Video |

25 October 2016

XDR-TB patient successfully completes treatment