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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What does the collapse of a rules-based world order look like? It looks like children and health workers screaming from Gaza’s hospitals as Israel’s shelling draws near. It looks like pharmacies in South Sudan burned to the ground, patients fleeing in fear, their vital medicines reduced to ashes. It feels like the panic and terror tearing through Zamzam camp in Sudan after shelling forced 400,000 people to flee […]
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Adam R. Houston is the medical policy and advocacy advisor for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières Canada. Srinivas Murthy is a clinical associate professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Flying under the radar in the current parliamentary session are two studies by Canadian Members of Parliament, each with potentially […]
Hover Button ADD MSF TO GOOGLE Make us a preferred source on google Ten years ago, Canada successfully co-sponsored the UN Security Council resolution 2286, which called for the protection of medical care in armed conflict situations. But today, attacks on hospitals and medical personnel have significantly increased and continue to be met with near-total […]
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Ahead of the Global Fund to Fight AIDAs, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria’s Eighth Replenishment Summit in Johannesburg, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling for world leaders to meet the Global Fund’s 18 billion USD ($25 billion Canadian) target. Failure to meet this goal risks catastrophic cuts to essential services, threatens the resurgence of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria and forces the financial burden of healthcare […]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deeply concerned by the Canadian government’s plan to reduce funding for international assistance and global health programs – especially at a time when more people than ever need urgent medical and humanitarian support. In our programs around the world, we’ve already seen first-hand how other recent cuts to […]
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The fight against three of the world’s most harmful and widespread diseases is under threat. Dramatic cuts to global health funding will impact the international response to AIDS, TB (tuberculosis) and malaria. For decades, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (known as the Global Fund) has played a central role responding to […]
We are horrified to see the Israeli forces increasing their carnage across Gaza City as they sweep through neighbourhoods, leaving destruction in their wake. At the same time, continued strikes are forcing people, including Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff, to flee their homes once again and we are seeing displacement across Gaza […]
What better return on investment is there than supporting lifesaving services for people affected by humanitarian crises? For Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), this is a rhetorical question, as we prepare our pre-budget submission to the Government of Canada before they determine their priorities for the upcoming federal budget. Inside, we, highlight the importance […]
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