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A female staff member is interviewed by a television crew from the Afghanistan national TV station, Shamshad, outside MSF's maternity hospital in Khost, Afghanistan, 2013.

Browse the latest stories and reports on MSF from various media outlets.

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Gimlet's Every Little Thing: The Quest to Wipe Out a Virus

May 15, 2017

Medical professionals with Doctors Without Borders discuss their experiences vaccinating children against measles, the barriers to vaccination and working within the cold chain in Democratic Republic of Congo. View external media.
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Newsweek: Your Mutual Fund Could Save Children's Lives and Slap Big Pharma

April 20, 2017

Newsweek discusses a new online platform launched by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that allows individuals in the United States to know whether they have investments in Pfizer and GSK through their mutual funds or retirements plans (401k) and, if so, contact those companies to insist they drop the price of lifesaving vaccines. View external media. 
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The Huffington Post: Big Pharma Says it Offers Cheap Vaccines for Refugees, but it’s not Completely True

August 05, 2016

Due to the absence of “global” solution to provide the pneumonia vaccine at an affordable price during emergencies, MSF had to pay more than 20 times the lowest global price to vaccinate more than 5000 children against the disease in Greece. Pfizer and GSK, the manufacturers of the vaccine, have refused to reduce the price of the vaccine. View external media.  

 
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Humanosphere: Vaccine Prices are 20 Times Higher in Refugee Camps, Aid Group Charges

August 02, 2016

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decried the high cost humanitarian organizations pay for vaccines – up to 20 times the normal prices – for vulnerable children in refugee settings. MSF is calling on drug companies to lower vaccine prices. View external media
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Nature: Vaccines Endure African Temperatures Without Damage

February 19, 2014

An anti-meningitis campaign in Benin delivers more than 150,000 doses with no losses from excess heat. View external media.
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Al Jazeera: The Fight for Global Immunization

April 26, 2013

MSF's Kate Elder explains how the high price of vaccines prevents many children from being immunized.

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New York Times: Thousands of Children Are at Risk in Central Africa, Aid Agency Warns

December 24, 2012

  A measles epidemic is endangering many children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. MSF is treating patients and administering hundreds of thousands of measles vaccinations.