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'There is No Such Thing as Free Vaccines': Why MSF Rejected Pfizer’s Donation Offer of Pneumonia Vaccines

October 21, 2016

MSF's Jason Cone describe why Pfizer's offer of donated vaccines is a poor substitute for lowering the high price of the medicine in order to make it accessible to people in desperate need of the vaccine in poor countries.
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One year since the attack on MSF in Kunduz, medical care in conflict zones is under greater threat than ever

October 03, 2016

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the US military airstrikes on the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in which 42 people lost their lives. The attack was a violation of the rules of war, which require military forces to protect medical facilities and personnel in war zones.
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A Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and malaria together: MSF Canada's Stephen Cornish on tackling the world's biggest killers

September 16, 2016

This Friday, September 16, representatives from around the world will gather in Montreal to consider the next three years of funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (now known simply as the Global Fund), which is the primary mechanism through which international efforts against the spread of HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria are made possible.
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Amid hospital bombings, rules of war ring hollow: MSF Canada's Stephen Cornish on why civilians are #NotATarget

February 29, 2016

This opinion piece was first published in the Globe and Mail newspaper on February 29, 2016 by Stephen Cornish, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Canada
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'The war in Syria is being waged against the country’s own people': MSF President Dr. Joanne Liu

February 11, 2016
Dr. Joanne Liu, a physician from Montreal, is the International President of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). She wrote the following article on the humanitarian crisis in Syria for The Huffington Post.
 
 
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After the outbreak, what have we learned? An MSF expert looks at the long shadow cast by Ebola

January 14, 2016

Luis Encinas is an Ebola expert with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He looks back at the outbreak that devastated West Africa, and ahead to what should come next.