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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) frequently publishes updates, press releases, and other forms of communication about its work in more than 60 countries around the world. See the list below for the most recent updates or search by location, topic, or year.

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Op-ed

Pharmaceutical Corporations Need to Stop Free-Riding on Publicly Funded Research

March 03, 2018

This article was originally published in The Hill. 

The White House Council of Economic Advisers recently announced a strategy to curb high drug prices: force "free riding" countries abroad to pay more and watch the prices go down in America.
Op-ed

European Policies Trapping Migrants and Refugees in Libya

November 30, 2017

By Thierry Allafort-Duverger, general director of the French section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). A version of this article originally appeared in Le Monde on November 30. This article has been translated from French. 
Op-ed

The Yemeni Spiral

November 20, 2017

By Dr. David Noguera, president of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Spain. A version of this article originally appeared in El Mundo on November 17.
Op-ed

There is No Such Thing as “Free” Vaccines: Why We Rejected Pfizer’s Donation Offer of Pneumonia Vaccines

October 12, 2016

MSF-USA Executive Director, Jason Cone, explains the decision to deny Pfizer's free vaccine donations for the world's deadliest disease among children in order hold on to MSF's independence and send a message to Pfizer that "free" cannot cover up the issue of unaffordable medicine.
Op-ed

Kenya: You Can Show the World that Safe Refuge is Possible

May 13, 2016

Hundreds of thousands of people cannot be punished for the actions of a few.
Op-ed

The UN Security Council Must Do More to Protect Syrian Civilians

February 22, 2016

By Michiel Hofman, senior humanitarian specialist for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). This article originally appeared in The Guardian.
Op-ed

Op-Ed: Bombing Hospitals and Schools Cannot Become the New Normal

January 20, 2016

This article was originally published in the Guardian.
Op-ed

The Long Shadow of Ebola

January 14, 2016

By Luis Encinas, Doctors Without borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Ebola expert 

After two years of epic struggle, the largest Ebola epidemic in history may finally be coming to an end. On January 15, if no new cases are recorded, Liberia will be the last country to be declared free of the Ebola virus in this epidemic.
Op-ed

Dismantling Gains in Global Health?

July 13, 2015

This article originally appeared on PLOS Blogs.

As the Third International Conference on Financing for Development begins in Ethiopia, Áine Markham of Médecins Sans Frontières warns that basing funding decisions on country-level finance indicators could be a step backwards for global health, especially in middle-income countries. 
Op-ed

“Opinions Never Saved a Drowning Child”: On Board MSF's Mediterranean Migrant Rescue Boat

May 04, 2015

Dr. Simon Bryant is a Canadian physician who will serve as one of two doctors on board the MY Phoenix, a search-and-rescue boat that Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) will launch this month in response to the growing humanitarian crisis involving migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Dr. Bryant talked recently about how the Phoenix will find ships in distress, what care his team will provide to those who are in need, and why nobody deserves to drown at sea.

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