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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 30/09/2026

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. PIH Canada honours residential school survivors, their families, and their communities. Listen, learn, honour, and support today and every day after. 🧡

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 18/09/2026

Budget 2025 cut $2.7B from Canada’s international assistance. Budget 2026 can reverse that. This week, we’re with six other Canadian organizations calling MPs with one message: no more cuts to international aid. Call your MP today: pihcanada.org/nomorecuts

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 11/09/2026

Paul Farmer had zero patience for certain words: budget, strategic plan, tuition fees. These were polite ways of saying no, and he’d rather work towards finding ways to say YES. This is still the standard at PIH today. What word would you add?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 01/09/2026

What does it take to deliver health care? Staff, stuff, space, systems, and social support. All five sound simple, but remove one, and the entire health system weakens. Learn more: pihcanada.org/news/pihs-five-ss-ess…

Orange and red graphic. Large text reads "Remove one and it all weakens" above a white pentagon split into five colour-coded sections labelled Staff, Stuff, Space, Systems, and Social Support. Italic text below reads "The Five S's of PIH." A "Need to Know" badge sits in the lower corner.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 14/08/2026

What does it take to end TB in hard-to-reach places? Community-based care that meets people where they are. In 2023: 9 countries, 36K+ tests, 13K people treated and an 84% success rate. Learn more: pihcanada.org/news/i-want-get-well-… 🔗

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 06/07/2026

Before TB stole his breath, Elvis played the saxophone. Through a clinical trial in Peru he received shorter treatment for one of the most resistant forms of TB, and the support to make recovery possible: pihcanada.org/news/elvis-and-drug-r…

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 05/07/2026

Hundreds of new people have joined us here recently — welcome 💙 We’re Partners In Health Canada: part of a global movement for health equity, working alongside communities to build care that lasts. Here’s a glimpse of what we’ve done together: pihcanada.org/about-us/our-approach…

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 03/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who gave, interacted, shared. Because of your generosity, we’ve met our goal! Your support is helping strengthen the systems that make safe care possible for more moms and babies. Stay up to date on progress: pihcanada.org/#block-pih-local-sign…

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 27/06/2026

Did you know traditional birth attendants were once banned from delivering babies in Sierra Leone? In Kono, PIH chose to partner with them instead. Until June 30, every gift is doubled: pihcanada.org/campaigns/safe-birth?…

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 26/06/2026

It’s encouraging to see Canada commit $8M to the Ebola response. Now we need to build on that leadership with long-term investments that help governments contain outbreaks before they spiral. Listen to Marleigh’s analysis + read more: pihcanada.org/news/dr-cass...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 26/06/2026

A sincere thank you to everyone who joined us in Edmonton this week for an evening with Dr. Joia Mukherjee. In a moment of withdrawn aid and deep uncertainty, Joia reminded us that global health equity is still possible—and communities like this help make it real.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

The answer to structural violence has to be structural too: trained teams, ambulances, blood banks, operating rooms and care people can afford. Until June 30, every gift to PIH Canada’s maternal health work is matched: pihcanada.org/campaigns/sa...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

National averages can also hide inequality within countries—by race, geography, income, disability and migration status. So the question is not simply “Which country is doing better?” It is: who can reach care, who is excluded, and why?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

3.4 billion people live in countries spending more on interest than on health or education. Developing countries paid a record US$921B in interest in 2024. UNCTAD: unctad.org/publication/...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

Governments are responsible for delivering safe care. But accountability without context is incomplete. Colonial extraction, debt and unequal access to financing shape what countries can invest in—and what health systems are forced to postpone.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

Haiti makes this painfully concrete. Years of progress are now threatened by violence, instability and cuts to global health funding—while maternal and emergency care remain essential. More: pihcanada.org/news/decades...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

In 2023, about 260,000 women died during or after pregnancy and childbirth. Around 92% of those deaths occurred in low- and lower-middle-income countries. Most were preventable. WHO: www.who.int/news-room/fa...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

The picture paints a totally different type of scoreboard. A high ratio reflects whether people can reach staff, blood, surgery, medicines and transport—and whether those systems have been resourced. It is not a measure of a country's commitment to its people. Data: www.who.int/publications...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

The World Cup is putting 48 teams side by side across 104 matches. That makes it a useful moment to look beyond the pitch: what happens when we compare countries not by goals, but by whether mothers survive childbirth?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

By day four, Grace was breathing without support. On February 22, she and Phebian went home together. This is extraordinary, and we should celebrate it, but we hope that it soon becomes mundane and ordinary—because high-quality care belongs everywhere. Read more: pihcanada.org/news/first-n...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

When Phebian saw the on-site dormitory where she could stay near Grace, she said: “It looked like America.” Which is powerful because such a simple sentence underscores a lot. Why should safety, dignity and modern equipment feel like they belong somewhere else?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

A few years earlier, staff had the skills but not the infrastructure. Fragile newborns sometimes shared beds. Babies were carried from the operating room in blankets. Now there are 39 specialized NICU beds and temperature-controlled incubators.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

It is tempting to call what happened next a miracle. But it's not. It was oxygen. An infant warmer. Continuous monitoring. Skilled nurses ready to act. In other words: a health system doing what it was built to do.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/06/2026

Thirteen minutes after Sierra Leone’s first NICU opened, its first patient arrived. Grace wasn’t crying. She could barely breathe. But for the first time, the team had the space and tools to respond. 🧵

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 20/06/2026

What could you bring to our feed that we haven’t thought of yet? 👀 We’re hiring a creative part-time Social Media Coordinator! Know someone perfect? Send this their way. Apply by June 24: pihcanada.org/sites/default/files/2…

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 15/06/2026

Behind a safe birth: trained health workers, blood banks, reliable transport, stocked pharmacies, and much more. Until June 30, every gift is matched up to $20,000. Double your impact: pihcanada.org/campaigns/safe-birth?…

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 14/06/2026

Should global health aid have to benefit Canada too? In some areas, mutual benefit makes sense. But health priorities should be set by the countries and communities receiving support. @mbrender.bsky.social makes the case: pihcanada.org/news/mutual-...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 05/06/2026

This September, student leaders from across Canada will gather in Toronto to learn, organize, and build community around the fight for global health equity. If you are active in our network, apply now: pihcanada.org/spihc-training-instit…

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/05/2026

What are we still calling “participation” that is actually just permission to speak? And what would have to change if we meant power-sharing literally?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/05/2026

Maybe the uncomfortable question is not whether our sector believes in justice. I believe many people do. The question is whether our institutions are willing to give up enough control for justice to become operational.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/05/2026

This feels especially urgent right now. Aid is being cut. Health systems are being stretched. Ebola is exposing, again, what happens when investment in care infrastructure is treated as optional until a crisis arrives.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/05/2026

Same with “locally led.” If local partners are trusted to deliver the work but not trusted with flexible funding, long-term strategy, or political judgment, then what has actually been localized? The labour? Or the power?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/05/2026

Youth engagement is a good example. Everyone loves youth energy, youth ideas, youth panels, youth turnout. But are we prepared for youth disagreement? Youth critique? Youth decision-making? That is a much bigger ask.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/05/2026

Because you can't just invite different people into the room and call it a day. You need to change who sets the agenda, who controls the resources, whose expertise is treated as legitimate, and who gets to say no. That is where the language gets tested.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/05/2026

A lot of people in our sector agree with “shifting power” and "decolonizing global health" in principle. But do they walk the walk? 🧵

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/05/2026

Outbreaks do not happen in a vacuum. The Ebola outbreak in DRC is unfolding after the largest drop in global aid ever recorded, with real consequences for health workers, patients, and the systems meant to contain disease before it spreads. What happens next is a policy choice. Listen below:

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/05/2026

Read the full analysis: pihcanada.org/news/policy-...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/05/2026

@pih.org’s work is about accompaniment: strengthening public systems, working alongside ministries of health, and building care that can last. Because building parallel systems that disappear when a project ends just reinforces the same cycles of dependency and saviourism.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/05/2026

So when we say health equity is political, this is what we mean. Debt, tax justice, and resource extraction are not “separate” from health. They shape who gets care, and who is expected to wait.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/05/2026

Aid CAN and does save lives. But when essential care depends on funding that can disappear with a stroke of a pen, that is a power dynamic that deserves interrogation and dismantling in the long term--WITHOUT interrupting immediate life-saving care that current aid structures facilitate.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/05/2026

Doctors, nurses, medications, labs, supply chains, safe facilities: none of that can run on goodwill alone.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/05/2026

And yes, the comparison is staggering. And difficult to sit with. But the point is how do we address systemic problems like this? How do we ensure countries have the fiscal space to build systems that last?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/05/2026

Because how are public health systems expected to do the impossible with almost nothing?

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/05/2026

This is one of those numbers that should stop us cold. Why? 🧵

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 20/05/2026

This is the first major Ebola outbreak of the “post-USAID era.” The Democratic Republic of the Congo is facing an outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola — a strain with no approved vaccine, limited research, and no approved targeted treatment. 🧵

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 16/05/2026

I can see it in your eyes... you want to join a reading club. 😉📖 Join us to discuss Structural Violence and Maternal Health. No expert background required. 🤝 🔗 RSVP here: pihcanada.org/doing-hard-things-friends-reading-club

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 14/05/2026

TB is curable. So why are people still dying from it? At #LeadOnTB Hill Day, advocates brought that question to Parliament Hill. Vincent Lin reflects on what changes when policymakers understand the stakes. @resultscanada.bsky.social @stoptbcanada.bsky.social @msf.ca @tbfighters.org @pih.org

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 10/05/2026

Swipe through the photo essay to see how mothers arrive at PIH clinics around the world—and why access means staff, stuff, space, systems and social support. Read: pihcanada.org/news/how-mot...

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 10/05/2026

Rainy season floods Neno's roads, sometimes cutting communities off entirely. When a mother can't make the journey, PIH brings care to her. Sometimes, accompaniment is a four-wheel drive and a driver who knows every rut.

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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 10/05/2026

Neno District has one paved road and 3% household electricity (pihcanada.org/news/cyclone...). Locals say: "If you're not from Neno, you don't know Neno." Getting care has always required going the distance. PIH has spent nearly two decades making sure care goes the distance, too.

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