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MSF’s submission to SRSR on Support for the Commercialization of Intellectual Property

Posted on 18 May 2023 (26 May 2023) by

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This spring, Canada’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research (SRSR) is holding meetings on Support for the Commercialization of Intellectual Property. More information on these meetings, including submissions, can be found here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/SRSR/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=12062854 MSF is concerned that this discussion overemphasizes the monetization of intellectual property (IP) such as patents while overlooking the importance of societal […]

Canada’s positions on the international pandemic treaty are concerning

Posted on 18 May 2023 (26 May 2023) by

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by Adam R. Houston. Originally published on Policy Options on May 12, 2023 Despite some recent commentary on the federal government’s approach to consulting stakeholders on the proposed pandemic treaty currently being negotiated under the World Health Organization (WHO), little attention has been paid to the positions Canada itself has actually adopted or their potential repercussions. The problem has been fueled […]

Title 42 ends, but migration crisis continues in Mexico and Central America

Posted on 18 May 2023 (25 May 2023) by

On May 11, when the Biden administration ends the COVID-19 public health emergency nationally, Title 42, a public health order used to shut down asylum at the US southern border for more than three years, officially comes to an end. Invoked by the Trump administration in 2020 and repeatedly extended by the Biden administration, Title […]

DRC: MSF treating alarming numbers of victims of sexual violence in displacement camps around Goma

Posted on 18 May 2023 (28 September 2023) by

In just two weeks, more than 670 victims of sexual violence have been treated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in camps for displaced people around Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, representing 48 new victims per day. These shocking figures reflect the extreme vulnerability and risk of violence faced by displaced […]

Haiti: MSF mobile clinics in Port-au-Prince treat people stranded by violence

Posted on 9 May 2023 (9 May 2023) by

Vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince are caught in a spiral of ongoing violence and insecurity, living under the threat of stray bullets and kidnappings as well as economic precarity. Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs mobile clinics almost daily to treat hundreds of children, women, men, and elderly people trapped in their neighbourhoods. In […]

Palestine : MSF report reveals Israel’s coercive measures undermine people’s health in Masafer Yatta

Posted on 11 April 2023 (19 October 2023) by jeremy

Living in constant fear of eviction, seeing their homes demolished and having their movements restricted are some of the challenges faced by Palestinians in and around Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank of Palestine. In its new report The unbearable life: the health impacts of the Israeli measures to forcibly evict the residents of […]

The Rohingya Displacement Crisis

Posted on 30 March 2023 (28 July 2023) by amanda

In August 2017, a coordinated campaign of violence by the Myanmar military against members of that country’s Rohingya ethnic minority drove hundreds of thousands of people to flee across Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh in search of safety. […]

Madagascar: Struggling to survive a triple crisis

Posted on 2 May 2023 (25 May 2023) by jeremy

In Madagascar, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing an alarming rate of malnutrition in southeastern districts where families are dealing with a triple crisis of food insecurity, malaria, and extreme weather events. Between January and April over 1,200 children under five years old suffering from severe acute malnutrition were admitted to […]

Nigeria: MSF alerts on unprecedented number of malnourished children to treat in Maiduguri

Posted on 1 May 2023 (4 May 2023) by jeremy

Unprecedented numbers of malnourished children in need of lifesaving treatment are being brought to therapeutic feeding centres run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, in northeast Nigeria. MSF is warning of an impending catastrophe if immediate action is not taken. The number of admissions since the start of […]

South Sudan: Malaria prevention is an urgent task

Posted on 27 April 2023 (2 May 2023) by jeremy

Kirer Koleka is patiently standing at the back of a queue with her one-year-old daughter strapped to her back and her six-year-year old daughter by her side. Kirer and her daughters are waiting to receive an essential item, mosquito nets, required to prevent malaria which is endemic in South Sudan. Kirer and her family […]