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Australia: MSF welcomes NZ refugee deal, but says it doesn’t go far enough

29 Mar 2022

Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) welcomes the announcement that refugees being held under Australia’s harmful policy regime will be allowed to resettle in New Zealand, but notes that the deal will leave hundreds of others without a resettlement pathway. 

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Ethiopia: MSF statement on investigation into staff killings

18 Mar 2022

In June 2021, three Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff were brutally murdered in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Following a New York Times investigation into the killings of our colleagues, MSF is urging the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) to respond. 

Following is a statement from the president of MSF Spain, Paula Gil. 

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MSF Statement on the situation in Ukraine

26 Feb 2022

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)'s statement on the escalating situation in Ukraine.

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Arunn Jegan
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On Borrowed Time

16 Feb 2022

Arunn Jegan, Médecins Sans Frontières Advocacy Coordinator, reflects on the state of the world’s health and crises from an imagined vantage point a decade from now.

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COVID-19 vaccines: Our response cannot be one-size-fits-all

08 Dec 2021

The uneven progression of the COVID-19 pandemic and the unequal access to vaccines and treatments calls for locally tailored approaches.

Isabelle Defourny, Director of Operations for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), discusses the 'one-size-fits-all' approach to COVID-19 vaccination advocated for by the UN, and the urgent need for vaccines in low income countries.

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Urgent solutions needed for refugees as camps set to close

06 Dec 2021
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Three reasons to end monopolies on COVID-19 medical tools

19 Nov 2021

One year ago—and seven months into the COVID-19 pandemic—India and South Africa put forward the TRIPS Waiver proposal: a groundbreaking solution to lift intellectual property barriers on and ensure greater equity in access to any vaccines, tests, treatments or other medical tools needed to tackle COVID-19.  

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COP26: The climate crisis is a health crisis

08 Nov 2021

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has long responded to some of the world’s worst medical and humanitarian crises. With climate change being described as the biggest global health threat of the 21st century—impacts we have seen first hand while working with the world's most vulnerable—our response to climate change is a critical pillar of our approach as a medical humanitarian organisation. 

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Syria: "Nothing but horror"

18 Oct 2021

The detention camps in northeast Syria are not a safe place for anyone, especially the tens of thousands of children forced to call them home, writes Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Nursing Activity Manager Sarah Gnanaseharam.

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4 reasons why Pfizer must share COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology

10 Sep 2021

Imagine the difference it could make if African countries that are facing waves of COVID-19 infections didn't have to rely on imports of vaccines. How many more people in developing countries could be vaccinated if countries could produce them themselves?