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Millions of people still die each year from infectious diseases that are preventable or can be treated.

Outbreaks of cholera, measles and yellow fever can spread rapidly and be fatal. Malaria is endemic in more than 100 countries. Millions are living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Viral haemorrhagic diseases such as Ebola or Marburg are rarer, but are potentially fatal. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every country on earth, infecting tens of millions of people and resulting in the death of over a million more.

The people at highest risk are mainly those living in poverty or in areas of great instability, such as in armed conflict or during mass displacement, where living conditions are precarious, access to healthcare is limited, and vaccination coverage is low.

 
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Despite all the preventive measures taken... expectations are bleak. Ayla Emmink, doctor in South Sudan responding to COVID-19

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Diphtheria, Kano project
Vaccination

Dramatic upscaling of vaccination needed in West Africa to curb deadly diphtheria outbreaks

Press Release 21 Nov 2023
 
Diphtheria, Kano project
Nigeria

Urgent response needed to curb Nigeria’s worsening diphtheria outbreak

Press Release 19 Sep 2023
 
MSF collaborates with local NGOs to support vulnerable groups during the Omicron wave in Hong Kong
Epidemics and pandemics

MSF statement on WHO negotiating body meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response

Speech 28 Feb 2023
 
Cholera in NW Syria, MSF responses
Syria

Combatting cholera amidst displacement and the remnants of war

Project Update 22 Nov 2022
 
Cholera vaccination campaign in Lebanon
Lebanon

Access to vaccines and clean water essential as cholera spreads in Lebanon

Press Release 18 Nov 2022
 
Cholera MSF Community Response
Haiti

Vaccines and urgent response needed as cholera wave rises

Press Release 17 Nov 2022
 
Construction of the 2nd ETC in Mubende
Haemorrhagic fevers

Face to face with Ebola in Uganda

Project Update 11 Nov 2022
 
Ebola outbreak in Uganda
Uganda

Ebola in Uganda: Four things you need to know

Project Update 5 Oct 2022
 
Ebola response in Mangina
DRC Ebola outbreaks

DRC's thirteenth Ebola outbreak

Crisis Update 20 Dec 2021
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