Claudia Blume
@claubablu.bsky.social
Serial migrant. Lover of people, words, and ideas. Opinions expressed here are my own.
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...
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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#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: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-the-latest-ebola-outbreak-could-affect-you/id1399721065?i=1000769451244
How the latest Ebola outbreak could affect you
Podcast Episode · The Big Story · May 25 · 26m
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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
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. https://ow.ly/XQwE50XR5OE
“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...
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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10 years ago, a Syrian refugee family helped me as an immigrant feel Canadian ripplerefugee.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
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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"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...
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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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...
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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MSF raises the alarm about extreme levels of malnutrition in El Fasher and other places in #Sudan www.msf.org/people-face-...
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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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...
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.
@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.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 11mo agoBREAKING: At least 250 people killed in a 6.0 magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
Our Médecins Sans Frontières staff are being killed in Gaza. Why are UK ministers enabling that? | Natalie Roberts www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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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...
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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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.
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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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 ⬇️
US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
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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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...
Save the CBC Petition - Friends of Canadian Media
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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-...
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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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
Another colleague killed by an Israeli airstrike.
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)@msf.ca · last yr.#Gaza: we are appalled and saddened by the killing of our colleague Hussam Al Loulou by an airstrike. His wife and 28-year-old daughter were also killed in this horrendous attack. This is the second killing of an MSF colleague in just two weeks. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/gaza-msf-mou...
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...
In Berlin sollen Ärzt*innen bald kulturelle Aktivitäten verschreiben. Doch: Warum muss man erst krank werden, um Zugang zu Kunst zu haben? https://taz.de/Kunst-auf-Rezept/!6076354/
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...
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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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
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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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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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...
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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Unlike in the US, it appears that the French judicial system is still working
Reuters@reuters.com · last yr.French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and handed an immediate five-year ban from public office, a sentence that will bar her from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand reut.rs/4laaGKf