MAY 2021-MAR 2022
PROTECTING THE MOST VULNERABLE AGAINST COVID-19
© Chika Suefuji
2014-2023
Médecins sans frontières
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian association that for 50 years has provided medical help to people whose lives or health are in danger, mainly as the result of armed conflicts, epidemics, or natural disasters. We’ve been regularly funding MSF since 2014 to respond to various emergencies across Africa and Asia, and recently also in Europe during the COVID-19 crisis.
CHALLENGE
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ACTION
INDIA
In response to a new devastating wave of COVID-19 ravaging India, we funded MSF teams to work alongside local health workers at BKC Jumbo hospital in Mumbai in Maharashtra, supporting them to treat patients with moderate or critical symptoms and to improve infection prevention and control measures.
MSF helped run a dedicated COVID-19 health facility and scaled up screening, shielding, testing and referral activities in the community, and at nine health posts. The shielding targeted vulnerable groups in informal settlements, including daily wage workers, the elderly, and patients with diabetes, tuberculosis, or taking antiretroviral therapy.
Following a request from the Indian Ministry of Health, in June 2021 MSF also supported vulnerable groups in the Manipur state, in the north-east of India, where more than half the population is not registered as citizens and originally come from Bangladesh, Nepal, and Myanmar. Screening, shielding, and testing activities targeted people already suffering from other illnesses, such as diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis.
THE PHILIPPINES
In the south of the Philippines, our funds supported MSF teams to provide primary healthcare, non-communicable disease services and epidemic surveillance for displaced families living in temporary shelters in the war-torn city of Marawi, which is the capital of the Philippines’ poorest province.
In India and in the Philippines, MSF teams' efforts succeeded in maintaining essential healthcare services alongside implementing COVID-19 prevention and control measures.
IMPACT
PATIENTS
suffering from TBC in greater Mumbai received appropriate care
DISPLACED PEOPLE
living in the city of Marawi received primary healthcare and non-communicable disease services
19 Jun 2023
Every Refugee has a Story
To mark this World Refugee Day, we invite you to read and recognise the personal stories of those who have been forced to flee their homes and homelands. Our partners collected and shared them with us. Our shared humanity urges us to listen.
26 Mar 2022
Ukraine Emergency
How Medair and Médecins Sans Frontières are providing desperately needed humanitarian assistance to refugees and internally displaced people.
12 Jan 2022
Helping Afghans at home and away
With the Taliban takeover, the situation for the Afghan population continues to deteriorate. As winter approaches, rural communities will soon be isolated. We’re supporting three humanitarian organisations to ensure Afghans can access their basic needs inside and outside their homeland.
4 Nov 2021
COVID-19: NOT YET OUT OF THE WOODS
Our last donations in support of hardest hit communities
6 Jul 2021
Our COVID-19 emergency support for India
To respond to the devastating wave of COVID-19 outbreak that is ravaging India, we are stepping up our support to the emergency response of two long-standing partners, Médecins Sans Frontières and Educate Girls.
14 Apr 2021
Combatting Covid-19 worldwide
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the sprint to respond to the global health crisis has turned into a marathon. This is a tribute to the decisive work of the organisations we’ve been funding worldwide to assist those most in need.
