MSF teams have directly responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in countries all over the world.
Our COVID-19 response focused on three main priorities:
- supporting authorities to provide care for COVID-19 patients;
- protecting people who are vulnerable and at risk, including via vaccination;
- and keeping essential medical services running.
We saw COVID-19 has crippled some of the most advanced health systems in the world. This has been in countries with a social safety net, where most people have access to running water and the space to self-isolate. While we have responded to the pandemic in countries all over the world, our greatest concern is for when the virus takes hold in places with more fragile health systems and no, or limited, basic safety net.
Apart from medical care, we were also speaking out on the need for equitable access to COVID-19 tools, including vaccines and treatments.
