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Access to Healthcare

Unmerited Pfizer patent on pneumonia vaccine limits access for children

“At MSF, we have watched far too many children die of pneumonia, and we’re not going to back down until price is no longer a barrier.” Press Release - 20 Nov 2017
 
Madagascar Plague - MSF Response
Madagascar

MSF provides support in tackling plague outbreak

The plague is understandably a scary disease, but quick, hands-on action can drastically lower the number of fatalities and bring the outbreak to an end. Project Update - 19 Oct 2017
 
Bangassou - multi antigen vaccination campaign.
Access to medicines

Patent Office dashes hopes for affordable pneumonia vaccine

“In our work, we see many children with life-threatening respiratory infections; many deaths could be prevented if more kids were vaccinated with PCV." Press Release - 22 Aug 2017
 
DRC - Tanganyika IDPs may 2017
Democratic Republic of Congo

“If we sit back and do nothing, these people will die”

"As a result of intercommunal conflict, villagers left their homes in the hope of finding safety elsewhere." Voices from the Field - 26 May 2017
 
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Vaccination

Investors join MSF in calling Pfizer to reduce the price of pneumonia vaccine

"We call on Pfizer to reduce the price of the pneumonia vaccine to $5 for all three doses, for all children in all developing countries.” Press Release - 27 Apr 2017
 
North Syria, Jan 2017
Syria

Describing the toll of war on health in absentia

"In war-torn Syria, patients are besieged and in inaccessible areas. True numbers are unknown but those we do see paint a picture so bleak that the size and scale of an emergency health response seem unimaginable." Journal article - 3 Apr 2017
 
Sara Ferrer, Medical Coordinator for Syria
Syria

The war has left tens of thousands of children unvaccinated

Sara Ferrer, a nurse who is coordinating the medical projects of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in areas of Aleppo governorate, explains the risks. Voices from the Field - 8 Mar 2017
 
Vaccination against pneumonia
Access to medicines

MSF welcomes Pfizer's pneumonia vaccine price reduction for children in humanitarian emergencies

Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) should extend their price reduction to all developing countries. Press Release - 14 Nov 2016
 
MSF delivers $17m to Pfizer to get them to drop the price of the pneumonia vaccine
A Fair Shot

World Pneumonia Day Call-A-Thon today!

12 November is World Pneumonia Day - Join our call-a-thon today! Campaign - 9 Nov 2016
Cholera intervention in South Kivu
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

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We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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