Ventilators for Europeans, Soap for Africans? One of the more common platitudes about Covid-19 is the myth of the Coronavirus as ‘the great leveler’, infecting world leaders and bus drivers […]
On 25 March 2020, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted that “The Iranian regime kicked out Doctors without Borders @MSF, which was setting up a field hospital for Iran’s […]
How are you supposed to wash your hands regularly if you have no running water or soap? How can you implement ‘social distancing’ if you live in a slum or […]
The latest deadly attacks on Ebola response teams in eastern DRC were horrific. Assailants killed four people and injured others in Biakato Mines and Mangina on 28 November. MSF condemns […]
Drones do not have a good reputation. Yet there are numerous useful applications of such technology for humanitarian purposes: conflict zones, and other difficult-to-reach places when disaster strikes, could be […]
Six years ago the town of Baba Amr in Homs was under siege by Syrian government forces. For months the town was bombed and starved. I entered the city weeks […]