Friend: Brazil is in crisis as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continues to surge. The current outbreak accounts for about 15 percent of all new cases worldwide, and much of the country’s health care infrastructure is on the verge of collapse, or already in ruins. Northern Brazil, where hospital beds are especially limited, has experienced some of the most dire outcomes.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is mobilizing additional emergency teams, joining MSF staff on the ground in what has been our largest effort since we began providing medical services in Brazil in the early 1990s.

“The challenge Brazil faces today is simply unprecedented,” says Ana de Lemos, executive director for MSF Brazil. The situation in Brazil reflects a broader reality for many of the vulnerable countries we serve around the world: COVID-19 cases are still rising, treatment capacity is dwindling, and access to vaccines is extremely limited.

Our teams are responding where they can. They need the support of donors like you to ensure they have the resources to treat every patient. Make your first gift to MSF now to help our teams in Brazil, and those in more than 70 other countries, respond to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis while delivering essential medical aid.

MSF has worked in several Brazilian states, assisting homeless people, migrants, indigenous communities, and people in prisons. In northern Brazil, we are supporting the local health systems in Amazonas, Roraima, and Rondônia with additional staff, infection prevention and control measures, and training to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

But hospital beds are scarce, and concerns of oxygen supply shortages are growing.

Friend, a gift from you now will help our teams respond to the pandemic in Brazil, and to crises all around the world. Please consider making your very first gift to MSF now and help us continue providing lifesaving medical care where it’s needed most.