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How can we fix the international humanitarian system? The answer starts at home

July 09, 2014

By Stephen Cornish, Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Canada
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) could be a blow to public health

July 07, 2014
By Stephen Cornish, Executive Director of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Canada
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South Sudan: 'We Are All Displaced Now'

May 19, 2014

By Nicole Johnston, Communications Coordinator, Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Originally published in the Huffington Post, May 16, 2014
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In the Central African Republic, a new kind of violence needs new action

February 11, 2014

Civilians in the Central African Republic (CAR) find themselves at the centre of a humanitarian catastrophe spiraling out of control. The effect of indiscriminate and seemingly unstoppable violence on the entire population has reached shocking levels, and has taken on deeply disturbing inter-communal overtones. Current efforts by the international community are woefully insufficient in the face of this mounting crisis.
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Access Denied

October 22, 2013

On the afternoon of September 24, I watched the news unfolding. Houses flattened, hundreds dead and many more injured following a major earthquake in the Awaran district of Balochistan province.
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Open Letter to All States and Non-State Actors Involved in the Syrian Conflict

September 27, 2013

Following the agreement brokered between the governments of Russia and the United States of America, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) calls on these two States to place at the top of their diplomatic agendas the substantial scale up of humanitarian aid to millions of war-affected Syrians.
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Keeping medicines affordable for all

July 25, 2013

The closed-door negotiations to draft the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement include discussions that could severely restrict access to affordable life-saving medicines for millions of people, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Leaked drafts of the US negotiating positions on the TPP purport to show that Washington is seeking to roll back international public health safeguards in favour of more aggressive protection for intellectual property.
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Access to medicines is a matter of life and death

June 06, 2013

Worldwide, millions of people die each year because they cannot afford the medicines they need. These numbers could climb even higher, unless Canada and other Pacific Rim countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations take decisive action to protect global public health.
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No excuse for failure

May 07, 2013

I recently returned from a two-week mission to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey. There I met with Syrians struggling to survive a brutal civil war that has so far killed more than 70,000 people and forced more than one and a half million to flee to neighbouring countries.
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Hiding behind health: Damage done by alleged fake vaccination program

Recent headlines worldwide reported on the U.S. government’s use of a fake vaccination program for counter-terrorism purposes. Using medical aid as a camouflage for military advantage threatens the lives of patients in the most precarious and embattled places worldwide. Whether this story is true or not, the damage is already done once the slightest suspicion arises that a medical activity like a vaccination campaign may have any motive other than healthcare provision.

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