Africa: MSF Ends Operation of Geo Barents With Commitment to Return to Central Mediterranean Sea

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced today that we have ceased operations on board our search and rescue vessel, Geo Barents, which had been operational since… Read more »

Africa: Improving Access to Healthcare for People in Benin

Located in the northwest of Benin, bordering Burkina Faso and Togo, the Atacora department is facing multiple challenges linked to the deterioration of security and health… Read more »

Africa: Game-Changing HIV Prevention Injectable Set To Reach Several African Countries

In 2022, the WHO recommended the innovative long-acting injectable version of HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), Cabotegravir (CAB-LA), as part of a comprehensive… Read more »

Africa: TACTiC - Test, Avoid, Cure TB in Children - a Survey of Paediatric TB Policies

This new report details how children with tuberculosis continue to be left behind in the global effort to end the disease. The report, TACTIC: Test, Avoid, Cure Tuberculosis in… Read more »

Africa: Urgent Action Needed As Govts and Donors Fail Children With Tuberculosis

A new report released today by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), shows that children with tuberculosis continue to be left behind in the global effort to end the… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Corporation Danaher Requested to Reduce Medical Tests Prices

In September 2023, the US corporation Danaher, which owns diagnostics maker Cepheid, announced a price reduction of the primary GeneXpert test used to diagnose tuberculosis (TB),… Read more »

Africa: MSF Reveals Cost of Landmark TB Clinical Trial in Push for Drug-Development Cost Transparency

At the fifth WHO Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies conference today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) presented the costs of its landmark TB-PRACTECAL… Read more »

Africa: TB Clinical Trials: An UnPrecedented €34 Million Price Tag in Drug Development

At the 5th WHO Pharmaceutical Pricing and Reimbursement Policies conference today, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) presented the costs of its landmark TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial… Read more »

Africa: Five Things to Remember a Decade After the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa

Ten years ago, on 23 March 2014, Guinea declared an outbreak of Ebola. Beforehand, Ebola outbreaks were known to be dangerous, but small. Not this time, though: it would take two… Read more »

Africa: Tuberculosis - MSF Launches Unprecedented Project to Tackle Underdiagnosis Among Children

Tuberculosis (TB) in children is a silent scourge: one child dies of TB every three minutes and more than half of all children with TB are never diagnosed. Taking the opportunity… Read more »

Africa: Responding to Cholera Is a Multipronged Approach

Over the last two years, countries' ministries of health and organisations like Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have been trying to respond to a string of cholera… Read more »

Africa: EU Policies Deny Safety and Protection to Refugees and Migrants

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has released a report today detailing the harrowing consequences of Europe's policy-made crisis at its borders and beyond. Read more »

Africa: At COP28, More Failure Is Not an Option for Vulnerable Communities

Too little is being done to protect the most vulnerable people against the negative impacts of climate change, warns Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). World leaders… Read more »

Africa: MSF Implores Govts to Use Recent TB Wins to Beat Back Deadly Infectious Disease

Recent price reductions to WHO-recommended TB tests and treatment should enable more countries to make these vital medical tools available Read more »

Africa: Immediate Ceasefire Is Needed in Gaza to Stop the Bloodshed

Médecins Sans Frontières calls for an immediate ceasefire to prevent more deaths in Gaza and allow desperately needed humanitarian supplies in. Since Friday 27… Read more »

Africa: TB Medicine Agreement - 'J&J Needs to Do More'

"The  announcement by the Stop TB Partnership/Global Drug Facility about a deal with pharmaceutical corporation Johnson & Johnson (J&J), for access to affordable… Read more »

Africa: European Commission Must Scrutinise Italian Law Restricting Rescues At Sea

Brussels - Five leading Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have submitted a complaint to the European Commission (EC) about Italian Law 15/2023, and the practice by Italian… Read more »

Africa: Greece - EU Migration Policies Are Killing People At Sea

EU migration policies are once again killing people as they search for safety Read more »

Africa: The EU Must Not Be Complicit in the Loss of Lives At Sea

Once again, dozens of lives have been lost at Europe's borders due to the EU's failure to allow people seeking protection to reach Europe safely. Read more »

Africa: Noma Survivors Shine a Light On Neglected Disease

In many ways, Muhammadu, Mulikat and Dahiru have little in common. They were born in different corners of Nigeria (Yobe state in the northeast, Lagos in the southwest and Niger… Read more »

Africa: MSF Urges Scale Up of TB Testing and Rollout of Safer, Shorter Drug-Resistant TB Treatment

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on governments and donors to speed up access to new, shorter, safer and more effective treatments for drug-resistant tuberculosis… Read more »

Africa: Tales of Women at Sea

Testimonies of survivors fleeing across the central Mediterranean Read more »

Africa: Women Face Additional Burden While Crossing the Sea

Anyone crossing the sea to escape a dangerous situation, or to find a better life, is in a vulnerable position. But women face the additional burdens of gender discrimination and,… Read more »

Africa: MSF Statement On Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response

The following statement was read out at the Fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) for a World Health Organization instrument on pandemic prevention,… Read more »

Africa: New Gavi CEO Must Prioritise Catch-Up Vaccination and Increase Inclusive Engagement

Today Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which supports access to immunisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), announced the appointment of Dr Muhammad Ali Pate of Nigeria as… Read more »