In 2020, a brutal war erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been killed. Others fled in search of safety, including several thousand who reached the Um Rakuba refugee camp in neighbouring Sudan. Life in refugee camps is difficult. Those who have been displaced are cut off from […]
Health Canada’s August announcement that Phase 1 clinical trials have been authorized in Canada for a Bundibugyo virus vaccine is a positive step towards adding a much-needed tool to the Ebola disease outbreak toolkit. However, it also serves as a reminder of how the Government of Canada has failed to provide sufficient support over the […]
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Reporting by Politico today suggests that the Canadian Government appears sympathetic to pharmaceutical industry objections to the TRIPS Waiver – a measure proposed at at the World Trade Organization to temporarily waive certain intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has time and again witnessed how monopoly rights […]
By Adam Houston, Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer for MSF Canada.
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By: Adam Houston, Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer in MSF Canada
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The Government of Canada announced today that it will donate 17.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to lower-income countries. This is an overdue but welcome step, said MSF. […]
Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine donation announcement at this weekend’s G7 Summit falls far short of Canada’s, and the world’s, commitment to ensuring equitable global access to COVID-19 vaccines, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said.
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Read More… from MSF Response: Canada declares donation of 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses
As Canada looks to expand its biomanufacturing capacity for vaccines and other health technologies, it’s essential we look not only at how best to meet domestic Canadian needs, but how to ensure this capacity will also help us respond to global unmet needs for COVID-19 and other vaccines.
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