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🚑 Providing medical care where & when it’s needed. 🥼 Fournir des soins médicaux humanitaires là où les besoins sont les plus grands. Independent. Neutral. Impartial. | Indépendant. Neutre. Impartial. doctorswithoutborders.ca | medecinssansfrontieres.ca

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 23h
“#Ebola is a disease that causes a lot of fear and a lot of miscomprehensions.” – Jack Latour, Canadian Nurse Activity Manager in #DRC. At the start of the outbreak in Nia Nia, more people were dying in the community than arriving at the centre due to fear. Watch her update:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 29/09/2026
#Malaysia plans to return nearly 1,500 refugees back to #Myanmar, including #Rohingya people, while conditions are not safe. "[This is] deeply alarming. Let's be clear. Return is not safe and it is not viable," says Dr Javid Abdelmoneim, International President. Watch his update:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 21/09/2026
From Jan. to July 2026, 1,389 children were hospitalized for acute malnutrition at Mudug regional hospital in #Somalia. As needs grow, funding cuts are forcing organizations to scale back emergency food assistance.. Watch a mother share her story:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 18/09/2026
The #Ebola disease outbreak is not shrinking. It's moving. Our teams are seeing cases emerge in new, underprepared areas while response measures remain insufficient in hotspots. More support from UN agencies is critically needed. Read our response: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/democratic-r...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 17/09/2026
People living with non-communicable diseases, like #diabetes, need access to continuous, reliable care. Yet conflict, displacement and weak infrastructure disrupts treatment and increases the risk of complications. On #WorldPatientSafetyDay, learn more: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/world-patien...
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World Patient Safety Day: Safe care for people living with chronic diseases | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF helps people with chronic diseases access safe, continuous care in humanitarian settings despite conflict, displacement and healthcare challenges.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 17/09/2026
Children must be included in #Ebola treatment & prevention research, as they are disproportionately affected by the outbreak in the #DRC. Yet many barriers restrict their access to medical countermeasures. Red our statement & @thelancet.com commentary: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/democratic-r...
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Children must be included in Ebola treatment and prevention research | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF urges critical action to ensure children access Bundibugyo virus treatment and PEP research, as they face disproportionately high risks in the current DRC outbreak.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 16/09/2026
Israeli airstrikes continue to hit #Gaza every day, killing and injuring people across the Strip. In the last 24 hours, our teams have treated 11 people, including five children, wounded by airstrikes.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 15/09/2026
This escalation risks pushing #Yemen's health system past the point of recovery. Our teams are supporting various medical teams and hospitals. Read here: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/yemen-…
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 15/09/2026
Over 117,000 refugees live in Ouré‑Cassoni camp in #Chad, where needs for food, water, shelter and healthcare are rising. Yet, global humanitarian funding is declining. Read our response and why critical support is needed: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/chad-at-oure...
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Chad: At Ouré-Cassoni, the reduction in humanitarian funding weighs on refugees’ daily lives | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In eastern Chad, more than 117,000 refugees live in the Ouré-Cassoni camp. Needs are increasing while humanitarian funding is declining. MSF warns Ouré-Cassoni must be among the priorities of the huma...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 14/09/2026
Trapped by insecurity in Plaine Savo, #DRC, families face harsh conditions, limited services and the ongoing threat of #Ebola disease. Every week, our teams treat people injured by violence and others suffering from malnutrition. Read our response: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/democratic-r...
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Amid violence, displacement and an Ebola disease outbreak, the people in Plaine Savo are struggling to survive | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ....
In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 76,000 displaced people in Plaine Savo face dire conditions, limited healthcare and the threat of Ebola disease.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 14/09/2026
On Sept. 13, an MSF bus carrying 10 humanitarian staff in #Gaza City was damaged by an Israeli airstrike on a targeted vehicle just two metres away. One MSF staff member was injured in the strike.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 11/09/2026
#Ukraine: On Sept. 10, three Russian drones struck a busy shopping mall in Pavlohrad, killing and wounding civilians. According to local authorities, five people were killed. Our teams are working with local medical staff to treat 67 people, including children and older people.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 11/09/2026
#Gaza: On the morning of Sept. 11, 11 people with injuries from explosions or shrapnel wounds arrived at MSF’s Al Attar healthcare centre in Khan Younis following an Israeli forces airstrike close to a displacement camp nearby.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 10/09/2026
Now is the time for more global action, not less. We believe #Canada can show the moral courage not to follow a moment of global retreat that is putting lives at risk. Tell your MP you agree: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/tell-your-mp... #cdnpoli
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 10/09/2026
On Aug. 31, our teams rescued 18 people in distress in the #MediterraneanSea. Twelve were unaccompanied minors. Over 35,000 people have been recorded dead or missing in the Mediterranean. The true number is likely much higher. Julie Melichar, Country Representative, updates:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 09/09/2026
Humanitarian and health needs continue to grow in the Al-Safa camps, South Kordofan, #Sudan. Our teams are providing water, healthcare, vaccination and support for displaced communities. Watch Mohammed Bilal, our Country Director Assistant, share our response:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 04/09/2026
While other governments are scaling back their humanitarian assistance funding, #Canada must take a stand and support people facing humanitarian crises. 📣 Send a letter to your MP today 🇨🇦: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/contac… #cdnpoli
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 01/09/2026
In #SouthSudan, people living along the rivers in Upper Nile and Jonglei states have to travel long distances — often by boat — to reach healthcare. Our teams support primary healthcare centres and refer patients who need specialized treatment. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/south-sudan-...
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South Sudan: When the river is the only road to healthcare | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF outreach teams use boats to deliver healthcare to river communities in Upper Nile and Jonglei, South Sudan. Staff run a decentralized model of care, supporting primary healthcare centres to provid...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 31/08/2026
A Doctors Without Borders emergency response team visited Bidur, one of the affected flood areas in #Nepal, yesterday for an initial visit to engage directly with local authorities and frontline responders. We know how urgent the situation is for affected communities. 1/2
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 31/08/2026
Health clinics are closing. Food distributions programs are shrinking. Disease outbreaks are becoming harder to contain. Health workers are being forced to do more with less. Tell your MP to stand up: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/contac…
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 31/08/2026
We are appalled by reports of an Israeli airstrike within the Al Aqsa hospital compound on Aug. 29. Hospitals should be safe places for patients and healthcare workers.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 31/08/2026
Many caregivers of children with malnutrition face anxiety, separation from their families and the fear of losing a child. At our Nilefa Kiji nutrition facility in #Nigeria, we support them through the emotional toll: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/nigeria-the-...
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Nigeria: The mental struggle of caregivers attending to children suffering from malnutrition | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF integrates mental health and psychosocial services into our malnutrition programs in Nilefa Kiji nutrition facility to support caregivers.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 28/08/2026
What is it like to respond to the deadliest #Ebola outbreak in the history of #DRC? Elhadji Diop, our Emergency Coordinator, is back from Mongbwalu. He shares his personal account and the challenges faced during the response: Watch the full video: youtu.be/niKeWoDHR5g
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 28/08/2026
#Canada must resist the global trend to reduce humanitarian assistance funding. We will always stand with people caught in conflict, epidemics disasters or exclusion from healthcare. Will you? www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/contac… #cdnpoli
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 27/08/2026
Our report, ‘Children arrive sicker, later and harder to save in Rohingya camps,’ highlights increasingly complex health needs in children at Kutupalong hospital, #Bangladesh. Funding cuts are also weakening services and our hospital is at capacity: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/bangladesh-c...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 27/08/2026
After a major flashflood struck the Rasuwa district in #Nepal, our teams have arrived in Nepal to assess people’s immediate needs. Hundreds of people are feared to have died with many people still missing: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/nepal-msf-as...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 27/08/2026
#Canada’s humanitarian assistance matters, especially at a time when conflicts and crises are rising and aid is in freefall. Our teams are witnessing the impact of these cuts first-hand. Read our statement: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/canadas-huma... #cdnpoli
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Canada’s humanitarian assistance matters | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
In 2020, a brutal war erupted in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been killed. Others fled in search of safety, including several thousand who reached the ...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 25/08/2026
What happens when the specialist needed to care for a patient is nowhere near the hospital? 🌍 In Carnot, #CAR, our teams use telemedicine to connect with specialists around the world, discuss complex cases, share knowledge and make decisions together. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/central-afri...
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Sana Bég @sana.msf.ca · 20/08/2026
#WorldHumanitarianDay is about remembrance. But increasingly, it is also a warning. Aid workers are being killed at record rates as the rules meant to protect them are eroded. The rules exist because we chose to write them. The world we want will exist only if we choose to defend them. @msf.ca
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 23/08/2026
Roughly one person has died from #Ebola every half hour over the past week. 100 days into the deadliest Ebola disease outbreak in the #DRC's history, the response must move faster. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/democr…
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Arndell @arndell.ca · 21/08/2026
Now is the time for more global action, not less. Now is the time for those who can help, to stand with those in need. This is not the time to turn away, but to show solidarity. Help @msf.ca and tell your MP to stand up for people in crisis! www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/contact-your... #Canada
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Tell your MP to stand up for people in crisis |
While other governments are scaling back their humanitarian assistance funding, Canada must take a stand and support people facing humanitarian crises.. Send a letter to your MP today urging them to increase Canada’s humanitarian assistance in the next federal budget in November 2026.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 21/08/2026
Every six hours there is an attack on healthcare. Our staff and the patients we care for witness this reality: airstrikes on our hospital in #SouthSudan, attacks in #Gaza and assaults on our teams in #DRC. Healthcare is #NotATarget. It’s time to hold perpetrators accountable.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 21/08/2026
Now is the time for more global action, not less. We believe #Canada can show the moral courage not to follow a moment of global retreat that is putting lives at risk. Tell your MP you agree: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/tell-y… #cdnpoli
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 20/08/2026
Every six hours, there is an attack on healthcare. In Port-au-Prince, #Haiti, violence is making it harder for women to access maternal and sexual and reproductive healthcare. Watch Naomi Lubin, our Supervising Midwife, share what it takes to deliver care:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 19/08/2026
Half of the children screened in displacement sites in Baidoa, #Somalia, are acutely malnourished. One in four is severely malnourished. Yet funding for the response is falling, even as the needs are growing: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/somali…
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 18/08/2026
#Somalia: On the morning of 17 August, armed clashes erupted in and around Baidoa town, South West state, Somalia. At Bay Regional hospital, MSF teams received 94 wounded people, including 29 women and 20 children, five of them under the age of five.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 17/08/2026
#Canada’s humanitarian assistance funding matters: it’s a commitment to responding where people's needs are most severe. Tell your MP to stand up for people in crisis 🇨🇦: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/tell-your-mp... #cdnpoli
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 14/08/2026
People in DRC are facing multiple challenges at once. Overlapping outbreaks, including the #Ebola disease, increase pressure on exhausted communities and health services. We're calling for vital investments to be maintained across all emergencies so that no crisis is sidelined.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 13/08/2026
What challenges do teams face inside an #Ebola treatment centre? In Mongbwalu, DRC, our teams are caring for people throughout their treatment, from children receiving care to patients being monitored as they recover. Watch our colleagues answer four questions about their work:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 12/08/2026
#SouthSudan: Since 2025, attacks on healthcare have intensified, disrupting medical services and leaving hundreds of thousands of people without access to care. Watch our Secretary General, Laura Leyser, share what she witnessed during her recent visit to the country:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 07/08/2026
The lab at the Elikya #Ebola treatment centre is key for the effective management of patients. Since it was set up, results have been available within 24 hours. This makes it possible to quickly determine whether a person is infected or not. Get a behind the scenes look. 🥼⬇️
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 07/08/2026
#Chad: What happens when over 40,000 don’t have enough water? The lack of humanitarian funding impacts and those who it affects are shown:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 07/08/2026
#Ebola: In settings like Mongbwalu, #DRC, babies like Asanté are among those diagnosed. But what happens when their parents are also infected? Watch her adoption journey and new beginning:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 06/08/2026
#Sudan's war has entered its fourth year. Hundreds of thousands are estimated to have been killed and millions displaced. Those who remain are caught between violence and collapse: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-…
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 04/08/2026
“I brought all my memories with me” says Nisrine, displaced from South #Lebanon. At the height of the war in Lebanon, more than one million people were forced to leave their homes. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/lebano…
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 31/07/2026
Afghan refugees in #Pakistan face the risk of arrest and deportation under the Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan. This is preventing them from accessing healthcare, with many avoiding medical care. Returns to #Afghanistan must be voluntary and safe. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/pakistan-msf...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 31/07/2026
#Haiti: When reaching a hospital becomes too dangerous, what happens to people who need care? Haitian artist Vicky Onélien illustrates how violence can prevent patients from reaching hospitals and interrupt treatments. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/haiti-people...
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 30/07/2026
Cutting #malaria funding in North Kivu, #DRC, will have devastating consequences. Malaria is one of the leading causes of death in the province. Yet it will no longer receive support for malaria control as part of the Global Fund’s next funding cycle. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/democratic-r...
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Malaria funding cuts will have deadly consequences | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
MSF warns that excluding North Kivu from the Global Fund’s next malaria funding cycle could leave millions without essential prevention and treatment.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 29/07/2026
After spending 18 days as a patient at our #Ebola treatment centre in Elykia. Dr. Alex Bonane returned to care for others. Watch as he takes you behind the scenes and shares his experience:
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 29/07/2026
#Gaza: On July 25, seven airstrikes hit different areas of Gaza. Eight wounded patients were referred to our field hospital in Al Zawayda, Deir al-Balah. Across Palestine, people are under constant attack from Israeli forces. This is not a #ceasefire. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ag...
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