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Claudia Blume

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Serial migrant. Lover of people, words, and ideas. Opinions expressed here are my own.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 16/06/2026
One month into the #Ebola disease outbreak in #DRC, the situation remains critical as infections and deaths rise. Our teams are responding by setting up treatment centres, strengthening surveillance and informing communities. Dr. Maria Mashako, our Medical Coordinator, reports:
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One month after the #Ebola disease outbreak was declared in Democratic Republic of Congo, #MSF warns that the outbreak is outpacing response efforts. www.msf.org/drc-msf-warn...
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DRC: MSF warns dangerous gaps persist in Ebola disease response | MSF
Despite the recent scale-up in the Ebola disease response in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), major gaps in surveillance, diagnosis, contact tracing and community engagement persist.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 25/05/2026
#Ebola outbreak: Sana Bég sits with Maria Kestane of The Big Story to discuss how our teams are responding, what we can do to help and how it affects us here in #Canada. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-t…
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How the latest Ebola outbreak could affect you
Podcast Episode · The Big Story · May 25 · 26m
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 28/05/2026
Leadership starts with the decisions you make every day. And we’re highlighting an important decision our colleagues – including @sana.msf.ca – take every day: hope over despair. She refuses to look away and chooses radical hope. Do you? Join our movement and add your name: www.hopeisradical.ca
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 02/01/2026
Denying medical assistance is unacceptable in any circumstances. Israel’s threat to withhold registration from MSF & other INGOs is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organizations from providing services in #Gaza and the #WestBank, #Palestine. ow.ly/XQwE50XR5OE
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 02/01/2026
“Let’s not call it deregistration, let’s call it a death sentence  —  that is exactly what it would be for the Palestinian people,” says @sana.msf.ca, MSF Executive Director, as Israel moves to bar nearly 40 aid groups under new registration rules. montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
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Oxfam-Québec surprised to be among aid groups Israel bars from Gaza
Nearly 40 organizations supplying aid in Gaza are scheduled to be barred as of Thursday for not complying with new registration requirements.
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
10 years ago, a Syrian refugee family helped me as an immigrant feel Canadian ripplerefugee.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
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How a Syrian refugee family helped me feel Canadian – before being one yet
"A blog describing the efforts of a private refugee sponsorship group in Toronto, Canada."
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 21/11/2025
"Canada has chosen not to lead, but to follow in the footsteps of other countries whose cuts to global health have already had deadly consequences. Such cuts will fuel the reversal of progress against HIV, TB & malaria,” says @healthlawadamh.bsky.social www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/can...
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Canada cuts back spending on fighting infectious diseases at G20 in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG - Prime Minister Mark Carney has made Canada's first-ever cut to funding for a major program for fighting infectious diseases in the world's poorest countries — a move that
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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
With the Eight #GlobalFund Replenishment Summit approaching fast, re-upping this comment from @msf.ca: "Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity" www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/replenishing...
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Replenishing the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is an opportunity for Canada to stand up for humanity | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF warns global health funding cuts risk reversing progress against HIV, TB and malaria. Critical action is needed to sustain critical programs worldwide.
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
MSF raises the alarm about extreme levels of malnutrition in El Fasher and other places in #Sudan www.msf.org/people-face-...
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People face extreme malnutrition in Sudan crisis | MSF
Our teams in Sudan are seeing high rates of malnutrition, including among people who have fled atrocities in El Fasher.
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Cool art action in #Ottawa this Saturday: @msf.ca will stage a human chain gallery on Parliament Hill to call for a stop to the #genocide in #Gaza www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/msf-stages-h...
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
1/ On 2 September, an MSF team reached Nangarhar and Laghman provinces to carry out an assessment following the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan. According to local authorities, more than 1,400 people have been killed and more than 3,000 injured.
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
@msf.ca MSF teams in Afghanistan are currently in touch with the local authorities and international health organisations to assess how we may be able to provide medical support. We continue monitoring the situation and our thoughts are with the victims and their families in these difficult moments.
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts
Britain has a duty to act morally, and stop supporting this genocide, says Médecins Sans Frontières UK executive director Dr Natalie Roberts
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Endlich!
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Natalie Roberts @docnat.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Through the newly launched website, gazainsidethewar.com, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) extensively documents the total war waged by Israeli forces since October 2023, which has destroyed the very conditions of life in Gaza. msf.org.uk/article/gaza...
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Gaza: New MSF website shows Israel's all-out war against Palestinians
MSF documents attacks on Gaza's health system and humanitarian workers
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/04/2025
Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is said to have shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
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Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 16/04/2025
After the April 11 attack on Zamzam camp in #Sudan, about 24,000 people have fled to Tawila in search of safety. Our teams are in Tawila, supporting people arriving exhausted and traumatized ⬇️
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/04/2025
US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
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US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
OTTAWA - Following months of declining Canadian travel to the USA, Americans have launched a tourism campaign inviting Canadians to visit locations like New York, Austin, and possibly even take an all...
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Please sign if you believe that our national public broadcaster is integral to Canada's identity and vital to a healthy democracy. friends.ca/takeaction/s...
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Save the CBC Petition - Friends of Canadian Media
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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
To mark the new season of #TheLastOfUs, time to shamelessly re-up this piece for @msf.ca on the importance of ensuring existing #EssentialMedicines💊, in this case antifungals, are still available when needed (for dystopian fungal pandemics🍄🧟or otherwise). www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/the-last-of-...
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The Last of Drugs: Making sure important medicines are still there when they’re needed | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
By Adam Houston, Medical Policy and Advocacy Officer for MSF Canada One clear lesson from the popular post-apocalyptic television drama The Last of Us is that it is far more enjoyable to vicariously w...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/04/2025
People packed the streets across the U.S. on Saturday to protest against President Trump, his administration's cutbacks, financial turmoil and more. nyti.ms/43GRvS7
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Another colleague killed by an Israeli airstrike.
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
What an inspiring evening at the @theglobeandmail.com Center in Toronto to celebrate the investigative journalists who won the 2025 Canadian @sidneyhillman.bsky.social Prize! Congratulations, and thank you for your important work in these often dark times. www.hillmanfoundation.org/canadian-hil...
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taz @taz.de · 02/04/2025
In Berlin sollen Ärz­t*in­nen bald kulturelle Aktivitäten verschreiben. Doch: Warum muss man erst krank werden, um Zugang zu Kunst zu haben? taz.de/Kunst-auf-Rezept/!6076354
Foto eines kunstvoll bemalten Innenraums. Beschriftung: Kunst auf Rezept. In Berlin können Ärz­t*in­nen bald kulturelle Aktivitäten verschreiben
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sadly, no matter how many aid workers, journalists, and children get killed, the world does nothing to stop this genocide www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says
Forensic consultant says multiple bullets were used from short range in attack that has caused global outrage
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Major Layoffs Begin at U.S. Health Agencies That Track Disease and Regulate Food. Cuts are part of plan to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u... via @nytimes.com
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Trump Administration Begins Layoffs at CDC, FDA and Other Health Agencies
The cuts were part of a Trump administration plan announced last week to dismiss thousands of employees and drastically overhaul the Health and Human Services Department under Secretary Robert F. Kenn...
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Eric Robert Reguly @ereguly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics ‘one after another’ and buried them in a mass grave, UN says
The Palestinian Red Crescent says the slain workers and their vehicles were clearly marked as medical and humanitarian personnel and accused Israeli troops of killing them ‘in cold blood’
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
MSF sends its deepest condolences to the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the United Nations for the killing of eight medics and one UN staff in Rafah, southern Gaza. Our thoughts are with their family members and colleagues. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Red Cross federation ‘outraged’ at deaths of Red Crescent medics in Gaza
Secretary general says he is ‘heartbroken’ by the news, after Israeli military says it fired on ‘suspicious vehicles’ that were later found to include ambulances
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Unlike in the US, it appears that the French judicial system is still working
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“I have to fight despair every day. For me, hope is not some abstract concept. It is a prerequisite for my survival. And so I don’t have room for hopelessness in my life. I’ve got to fight it. Because my life kind of depends on it.” @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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John Green’s brand is optimism. On book tour, he’s fighting despair.
Some people get tennis elbow; John Green has bestseller shoulder. His doctor said – no joke – that Green, 47, was developing arthritis from signing so many books: more than 700,000, he estimates, over...
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 28/03/2025
Our teams working in #Myanmar and #Thailand are safe and accounted for after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the central region. Doctors Without Borders can support communities, once authorities grant unhindered access for teams to do assessments and provide medical care.
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taz @taz.de · 28/03/2025
Sowohl die evangelische also auch die katholische Kirche verliert Mitglieder. Das liegt neben der finanziellen Last auch an Glaubwürdigkeitsfragen.
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Immer mehr Kirchenaustritte: Die Schäfchen laufen ihnen in Scharen davon
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else.
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The loss of US support to Gavi is projected to deny approximately 75 million children routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children potentially dying as a result.
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Sana Bég @sana.msf.ca · 24/03/2025
What a shame. Children across the 🌍 don't have access to the #TB care they deserve. Funding cuts are impacting community services & putting even more kids at risk. This #WorldTBDay, join me in amplifying @msf.ca call for: 1️⃣sustained investments in TB diagnosis 2️⃣ treatment 3️⃣prevention #MedSky #TBSky
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
For World TB Day, PIH is hosting a webinar at 12pm EST to discuss the repercussions of recently slashed US foreign aid and the hope that remains. #worldTBday @partnersinhealth.bsky.social Register here: act.pih.org/worldtbday2025
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Register | Turmoil, TB Care, & Taking Action
Join experts on World TB Day to discuss the history, innovations, and social justice impact of TB, the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 24/03/2025
NEW: Social security failures coupled with structural gender inequality leave many people in Germany mired in poverty, especially single-parent families and older women. www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
Germany: Social Security Failing to Protect Rights

New Government Should Act to Address Poverty, Gender Inequality
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I saw a clip of a Fox News host saying his two major rules for men were never to cross your legs and never to drink from a straw — the latter because it causes you to purse your lips which “isn’t manly” — and suddenly all of this made sense. A closeted, over-toilet-trained generation of insecure men
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Lovely review for EITB in The Lancet. Thanks, Dr. Pai!
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 21/03/2025
#Gaza: Along with hundreds of others across the Strip, our colleague Alaa Abd-Elsalam Ali Okal was killed in on March 18 following the resumption of Israeli attacks. Hundreds more were injured in this abrupt end to the ceasefire. Our thoughts are with his family.
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
#DRC update: The situation in #Walikale, #NorthKivu remains tense despite this morning's lull, allowing #MSF teams to assess medical and humanitarian needs. Yesterday, the fighting between FARDC and M23/AFC reached the town centre. Although MSF was not directly targeted, crossfire hit our base.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 20/03/2025
#Gaza: Doctors Without Borders extends its condolences to our colleagues at @unops.org and the families of the staff killed in an explosion on March 19 in a UN compound, located in a deconflicted area in Deir Al-Balah, central Gaza. We are deeply shocked by this deadly incident.
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FoulMouth, Life Coach @fergusmcdingus.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I feel nauseous and claustrophobic just reading this. And disgusted “The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
RFK Jr. is spewing childish libertarian nonsense. Vaccines are not a “personal choice.” We give up some personal freedoms so we all stay alive, by Donald G. McNeil www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... via @postopinions.bsky.social #vaccination
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Opinion | RFK Jr. is spewing childish libertarian nonsense
Vaccines are not a “personal choice.” We give up some personal freedoms so we all stay alive.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 19/03/2025
#Bangladesh: Over one million #Rohingya refugees are facing a crisis as funding cuts force the World Food Program to halve food rations. Vickie Hawkins, General Director, highlights the devastating impact this will have on a community reliant on humanitarian aid. ow.ly/8q5F50VkP2O
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Bangladesh: MSF warns of acute malnutrition crisis among Rohingya refugees | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
As the ripple effect of cuts in the humanitarian sector continue to reverberate around the world, more than one million Rohingya refugees remain confined to camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.   Last we...
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Claudia Blume @claubablu.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The termination of the US funding threatens to undo years of incredible progress against #HIV and #TB, with immediate and long-term consequences. www.msf.org.za/news-and-res...
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Treat the funding cuts like the humanitarian disaster that they are. | MSF
The US funding cuts will affect millions of the world’s most vulnerable people.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 18/03/2025
In Doctors Without Borders Attar clinic in Al-Mawasi, southern #Gaza, our team received 26 injured, three in critical condition, who were later referred to Nasser hospital. The clinic was also struck with shrapnel, our teams unharmed.
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