By Adam Houston, MSF’s Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer in Canada.
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Friends of MSF Chapter Resources
Find below a suite of useful tools, templates, and guiding documents to support the work of your Friends of MSF group. Is there a resource that is not on this page, but you feel would greatly support your team’s activities? Please reach out to Josh to discuss! Policy Handbook (EN) / Policy Handbook (FR) Action […]
Northwest Syria: Mass casualty influx in an MSF co-managed hospital following an airstrike in Idlib
On Saturday, December 211, 2021, 15 casualties were rushed to a hospital co-managed by MSF following an airstrike in Idlib governorate, northwest Syria.
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Haiti: Unbearable insecurity in Port-au-Prince
Haiti’s capital is in a state of high tension as armed groups vie for power across the city and challenge the government.
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South Sudan: Severe floods and lacklustre humanitarian response leave people dangerously exposed in Bentiu
People in Bentiu in northern South Sudan are facing outbreaks to infectious and waterborne diseases, increased food insecurity and malnutrition, due to some of the most severe floods in decades. A failure from humanitarian organizations and authorities to scale up quickly enough in response has left at least 152,000 displaced people in horrific living conditions. […]
One year after the first shot, pharma must urgently “share the tech” of COVID-19 vaccines
As the omicron variant spreads, MSF calls on Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech to immediately share their lifesaving mRNA vaccine technology with manufacturers that stand ready to boost the global supply.
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Darién Gap, Panama: Violence continues in migrant journeys
MSF has now provided 30,000 medical consultations to the people in transit between Colombia and Panama.
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As Canada reopens, lower-income countries still lack access to COVID-19 vaccines – leaving everyone at increased risk
By Jason Nickerson, MSF Humanitarian Representative to Canada, and Adam Houston, MSF Canada Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer.
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Geo Barents: 10 found dead and 186 rescued in Central Mediterranean
MSF search-and-rescue teams found 10 people dead yesterday on a wooden boat in the Central Mediterranean after 186 others were rescued within 24 hours.
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Global vaccine inequity is putting the lives of healthcare workers at risk – including MSF’s own front-line medical staff
By Adam Houston, MSF’s Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer in Canada.
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