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COVID-19 Vaccines Equity Demonstration
Access to medicines

"Every day, we witness the failure of global solidarity"

Press Release - 10 Dec 2021
 
MSF, Doctors Without Borders, COVID-19 report
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Responding to COVID-19: Global Accountability Report 5 - May to September 2021

Report - 9 Dec 2021
 
The rapid addition of inexperienced staff in an emergency situation, as happened in many hospitals during South Africa’s second COVID-19 wave, can produce challenges, which MSF witnessed first-hand in the field hospital at Ngwelezana Tertiary Hospital in northern KwaZulu-Natal. In this 113 bed COVID-19 facility MSF and Department of Health staff worked side by side from 11 January. To bring order to a potentially chaotic situation, the appointment of an experienced nurse activity manager to organize the fac
Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

In an unequal world, our response to COVID-19 cannot be one size-fits-all

Op-Ed - 8 Dec 2021
 
Eshowe Rural COVID-19 Response
Healthcare

Toolkits

A set of tools designed to be used together or for a particular practise
 
The landscape of Dagahaley Camp is a community camp that has existed since 1990 in Kenya's territory.
Refugees

Kenya: Urgent solutions needed for refugees as camps close

Kenya: Urgent solutions needed as refugee camps close, prompting MSF to advocate for vulnerable populations. Press Release - 6 Dec 2021
 
Atong Dut Deng, 8 years old, infected with celebral malaria. She is being attended to by MSF medical staff in the ICU at MSF supported Aweil State Hospital.
Malaria

MSF responds to Gavi board approving investment in malaria vaccine rollout

Press Release - 3 Dec 2021
 
Vials of Amphotericin B and related supplies which is used to treat Cryptococcal Meningitis Aisha Diabate 30 years (background) arrived at Donka Hospital with the husband of her sister who is a doctor from Coleah health centre in Conakry.
HIV/Aids

Three considerations to treat or manage cryptococcal meningitis

Patient and Staff Stories - 30 Nov 2021
 
MSf, Doctors Without Borders, South Africa, Word AIDS day, Cryptococcal meningitis
HIV/Aids

"I started having headaches, not just normal headaches… serious headaches. I couldn’t even sit or sleep."- Zikhona Mboto

I started having headaches, not just normal headaches. A patient story highlighting the insidious nature of illness, treated by MSF. Patient and Staff Stories - 30 Nov 2021
 
With approximately 5.3 million people infected with HIV, South Africa has the highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS of any country. In November 2003, the South African government approved a new national HIV/AIDS plan that added life-extending antiretroviral (ARV) therapy to the existing protocol and set a goal of treating 600,000 people with ARVs by 2008.
HIV/Aids

Cryptococcal meningitis: This world AIDS Day it’s time to recognise an outsider

Cryptococcal Meningitis: On World Aids Day, it's time for action, urges MSF, highlighting a critical co-infection. Op-Ed - 30 Nov 2021
 
MSF, Doctors Without borders, HIV Drug CAB-LA
HIV/Aids

Deadly brain fungus is killing people living with HIV while SAHPRA dithers over registration of cure

Press Release - 30 Nov 2021