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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · 7d

Sobering report from my @doctorswithoutborders.org colleagues in Port-au-Prince: Civilians in Haiti are caught in deadly, escalating violence. Many people have lost access to medical care amid a territorial conflict between armed groups and the police. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/civil...

Civilians in Haiti are caught in deadly, escalating violence

Many people have lost access to medical care amid a territorial conflict between armed groups and the police.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · 21d

@doctorswithoutborders.org calls on US lawmakers to:
• Ensure a surge of lifesaving humanitarian aid to people in Gaza
• Suspend arms transfers to Israel
• Call for an immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza
STOP THE GENOCIDE! LET GAZA LIVE! Sign on: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/campa...

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · 27d

Happy to share: @doctorswithoutborders.org USA appoints Tirana Hassan as new CEO: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/docto...

Doctors Without Borders USA names Tirana Hassan as new CEO

Hassan brings decades of experience across the humanitarian and human rights fields.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · 28d

Thank you, Grace. All of the above, but insecurity and access are among the biggest challenges.

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · 28d

Yesterday was a terrible day in Sudan's Darfur region. Hospitals received 99 people wounded in attacks including drone strikes on populated areas and the shooting and beating of people fleeing the besieged city of El Fasher. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/darfu... @doctorswithoutborders.org

Darfur hospitals receive nearly 100 wounded people in one day

Survivors who managed to escape El Fasher report an unbearable situation in the besieged city and ongoing dangers on the road to Tawila.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 15

In the midst of war, Sudan is experiencing its worst cholera outbreak in years. @doctorswithoutborders.org teams are calling for a scaled-up response. @evesampson.bsky.social @nytimes.com

Sudan, Battered by War, Is Hit by Its ‘Worst Cholera Outbreak’ in Years

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 14

People in Gaza are starving.

Israeli authorities have rejected requests from dozens of NGOs to bring in lifesaving goods, saying they are “not authorized to deliver aid.”

@doctorswithoutborders.org joins more than 100 organizations calling for an end to this "weaponization" of aid.

Israel threatens to ban major aid organizations as starvation deepens in Gaza

MSF joins over 100 organizations calling for an end to Israel’s weaponization of aid.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 12

Cholera is spreading in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

@doctorswithoutborders.org has opened a 160-bed cholera treatment center in Tawila and may need to expand it.

More aid is urgently needed - especially cholera vaccines.

FRANCE 24 @france24.com · Aug 12

Dans l'ouest du Soudan, l'épidémie de choléra frappe durement les déplacés de Tawila

Dans les camps de déplacés de Tawila, dans l'ouest du Soudan en proie à une épidémie de choléra, la peur s'est glissée dans chaque geste du quotidien. Eau, vêtements, gamelles : tout paraît contaminé.

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 12

A doctor bearing witness from two months in Gaza. See also #humansofny www.instagram.com/p/DNOV-qQOdbN

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 12

"Protect, not punish."

People fleeing war, violence and persecution have a right to seek asylum, whether it's 1951 or 2025.

A @doctorswithoutborders.org report calls on governments across the Americas to honor their obligations.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 12

Many pediatric and maternal health programs in southwestern Somalia have been shuttered by US aid cuts this year. A view from the bedsides of malnourished children: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/deadl... @doctorswithoutborders.org

Deadly delays: How funding gaps are undermining health care in Somalia

Poverty, insecurity, and distance already impede access to care in remote areas of Somalia, and the suspension of USAID funding has caused the closure of at least 37 health sites around Baidoa.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 11

@doctorswithoutborders.org is responding to cholera in South Darfur, where treatment centers are overwhelmed. But there are no cholera vaccines in the region. They are urgently needed.

Semafor @semafor.com · Aug 11

Sudan cholera threatens thousands of lives

More than 100,000 cases of the disease have been registered in the ast year, a World Health Organization official said.

www.semafor.com

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · Aug 8

Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 8

In war-torn South Darfur, Sudan, @doctorswithoutborders.org teams are responding to a cholera outbreak. Cholera vaccines are urgently needed. We're calling for @unicef.org to act

Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · Aug 8

South Darfur, Sudan is facing a deadly cholera outbreak. As of 5 August, the Ministry of Health in South Darfur reported 1,440 suspected cases and 74 deaths. We are supporting cholera treatment centres that are now overwhelmed. We need @unicef.org and WHO to act now.

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 8

A wave of starvation in Gaza, and a lack of resources to treat it.

“We’re seeing shortages on the medical side; we’re seeing it on the nutritional side”

- Mohammed Fadlalla of @doctorswithoutborders.org

Starvation is spreading in Gaza — and treating it won’t be easy

Experts warn that famine is unfolding in Gaza — and that treating severe acute malnutrition will take more than just increasing food aid to the enclave.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 7

Cuts to malaria funding by the US are also evident now in Ethiopia’s Gambella region, where @doctorswithoutborders.org is receiving more patients and concerned about further increases: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/aid-c...

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 7

A deep look at what @doctorswithoutborders.org calls a "war on people" - and what nobody is doing to stop it

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 7

“The end of the liberal world order” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in conference rooms and lecture halls. But in war-ravaged Sudan, it’s a reality. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social traveled there and spoke with those who are living in this post-American world:

This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like

In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · Aug 7

“In MSF’s nearly 54 years of operations, rarely have we seen such levels of systematic violence against unarmed civilians.”

The GHF-run food distributions in Gaza, Palestine, have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”, not humanitarian aid.

GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of orchestrated killing | MSF

MSF calls for the immediate dismantling of the GHF scheme; the restoration of the UN-coordinated aid delivery mechanism; and calls on governments to suspend all financial and political support for the GHF.

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 5

US aid cuts are affecting refugees in Ethiopia. A detailed update from @doctorswithoutborders.org teams who are overloaded with malaria and malnutrition patients in the Gambella region after multiple aid organizations ended services www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/aid-c...

Aid cuts threaten refugees’ lives in Ethiopia’s Gambella region

MSF is overwhelmed by the increased patient load, and we fear this number will likely keep rising in the coming months with more health facility closures.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Aug 5

In a worrying trend, there have been a string of brazen attacks against health and humanitarian workers in South Sudan this year. @doctorswithoutborders.org is suspending work in 2 counties after a staff member was abducted by gunmen last week. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/south...

South Sudan: MSF suspends activities in two counties following abductions of health care staff

In the latest of a string of brazen attacks in Morobo and Yei River counties, armed men took an MSF staff member from a vehicle before releasing him hours later.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · Jul 30

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Jul 29

Rising malnutrition in northern Nigeria is being met with aid funding cuts. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/urgen...

Urgent: An alarming malnutrition crisis in northern Nigeria

Rising malnutrition in northern Nigeria is being met—tragically—with aid funding cuts.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · Jul 18

The US Congress’ decision to claw back around $8 billion of funding previously approved for foreign assistance will exacerbate an already dire situation for people all over the world.

“We cannot and should not accept this dangerous new normal." www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/us-cu...

US cuts to international aid harm people caught in conflict and crisis around the world

MSF remains committed to providing global health and humanitarian aid, but we can’t do it all alone.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Jul 17

A bit strange that food and clothing are combined here. There isn’t a “World Clothing Program” …

John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · Jul 17

As Congress votes to cut foreign aid, this chart from a March
@pewresearch.org survey shows which types of foreign aid do and don't have majority support among Americans: www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

Dot plot showing partisan differences in support for various types of U.S. foreign aid, based on a March 2025 Pew Research Center survey.

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Tim Shenk @timshenk.msf.ca · Jul 14

Analyzing cholera outbreaks can point to broader problems. A close look at cholera in Haiti and a call for an urgent and sustained humanitarian response.

Dok Louise @louiseisainmdom.bsky.social · Jul 14

In Haiti, our team's newest research adds evidence to the link between gang violence & the 2022 cholera resurgence. In a collaboration with Haiti's Ministry of Health we investigated the outbreak:
www.ajtmh.org/view/journal...

A figure with two views of a map of a section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti with dots marking cases of cholera and treated and untreated water sources.

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