2020

Charline Vincent, nurse, is examining a man in MSF's mobile clinic. MSF’s mobile clinic provides primary healthcare to people who live rough on the streets in Paris and its suburbs. © Agnes Varraine-Leca/MSF
As part of the medical response to COVID-19 that continues to spread across France, last week MSF teams began providing medical care to vulnerable people confined in emergency shelters or still living on the streets or in makeshift camps in Paris and the suburbs. On 24 March, over 700 migrants...
In late February, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Africa. Today, the new coronavirus has spread to 42 out of 54 countries on the continent.
 

MSF medical teams have joined the fight against COVID-19 as the new coronavirus disease spreads to more than 200 countries.

While it’s great to celebrate all the amazing things women can do, we should not forget that women in the Philippines and all over the world still suffer from so much abuse and discrimination. 

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is putting its knowledge and experience in epidemic management at the service of Spanish society and the health authorities to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19. "Managing the epidemic requires a humanitarian emergency mindset to seek out-of-the-box solutions to...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has expanded activities in response to COVID-19 in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, France, Norway, Greece and Belgium. Helping the Elderly Elderly people are among the most vulnerable to severe infection from COVID-19. In Italy, Belgium and Spain, we have extended...
Rationing because of high prices and insufficient supply will prolong pandemic Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called for no patents or profiteering on drugs, tests, or vaccines used for the COVID-19 pandemic, and for governments to prepare to suspend and override patents and...
The military offensive carried out by the Government of Syria and its allies in Northwest Syria, has led to the displacement of almost a million people in the space of just four months in the Idlib region . People have had to flee from their homes or from the camps they were already displaced in,...
Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is ready to deploy its emergency team and inflatable 50-bed facility elsewhere in Iran or to other countries where they are urgently needed. MSF expresses its incomprehension following today’s declarations by officials of the Iranian Ministry...
Two staff in full personal protective equipment wait for a person suspected of having Ebola at the newly-opened MSF Ebola Treatment Centre in Katwa, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo. © Lisa Veran/MSF

Today as the world is focused on the Corona Virus pandemic, the world's second-worst Ebola outbreak is finally nearing its end.

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