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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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Kailahun, Sierra Leone
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MSF International President United Nations Special Briefing on Ebola

Speech 2 Sep 2014
 
ELWA3 Ebola management centre in Monrovia, Liberia
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Global bio-disaster response urgently needed in Ebola fight

Press Release 2 Sep 2014
 
Democratic Republic of Congo

MSF reinforces response to DRC Ebola outbreak in Boende

Project Update 29 Aug 2014
 
ELWA3 Ebola management centre in Monrovia, Liberia
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The failures of the international outbreak response

Opinion 29 Aug 2014
 
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MSF response to the WHO new Ebola roadmap

Statement 28 Aug 2014
 
Liberia

MSF’s new Ebola management centres already overwhelmed

Press Release 27 Aug 2014
 
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MSF deeply saddened by deaths of a Guinean, a Liberian and a Sierra Leonean colleague

Statement 26 Aug 2014
 
Kailahun, Sierra Leone
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International Response to West Africa Ebola Epidemic Dangerously Inadequate

Project Update 15 Aug 2014
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