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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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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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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.

In Lesotho, rural mountainous terrain is a major barrier to facility-based delivery. Many Maloti Mountain communities are only reachable on foot or horseback — the nearest clinic can be hours away in either direction.

In Sierra Leone, women in rural Kono District have faced broken infrastructure, costly medicine, and too few skilled providers. Maternal waiting homes were built because the distance to emergency obstetric care can be fatal. Some women travel hundreds of miles and wait weeks.

Liberia's rate is also among the highest on earth (worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...). In rural areas with poor road infrastructure, a hired motorbike is often a pregnant woman's most reliable option.

Lesotho's maternal mortality rate is ~566 per 100,000 live births (www.afro.who.int/countries/le... ) — one of the highest in the world. That number lives in a context where rivers separate communities from clinics, and getting care means crossing first.

Lesotho sits almost entirely above 1,000m. Many highland communities aren't reachable by road — at all. For generations, horses have been the means by which people move through those mountains. For a new mother with a baby on her back, they still are.

In many places, getting to a prenatal appointment is just an errand. In communities where PIH works, it can be a half-day journey through terrain with no roads, let alone transit. Here's what that actually looks like. 🧵

What does solidarity look like up close? PIH Canada board members Max FineDay & Jia Hu recently travelled to Rwanda to see PIH’s work firsthand — from hospitals to patient homes to community health worker accompaniment. Watch their full reflection on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CQDlksRQkq4

Have you been personally victimized by the woke virus? Symptoms may include: empathy, evidence, historical context, and a dangerous belief that health care is a human right. You may be entitled to quiz results. Take the quiz: pihcanada.org/quiz

We know how to save these lives. The question is whether we choose to. 👉 Support health care teams reaching children in Haiti: https://partnersinhealthcanada.donorsupport.co/page/FUNVQEBNRMJ

When systems collapse, survival becomes a question of who can still be reached. Listen to how health care teams are navigating insecurity, fuel shortages, and broken infrastructure to reach children who cannot wait. 👉 In the final video, we’ll unpack why and what it would take to change it.

What makes malnutrition especially difficult to sit with is how treatable it is, as with most other medical inequities. To learn more about the situation in Haiti on the ground, join us for this webinar by Zanmi Lasante, as @pih.org is known in Haiti, next Monday: https://bit.ly/ZLWeb

Right now, as war dominates headlines, a slower crisis is undoubtedly spreading underneath it: malnutrition. 👉 A Video Series: Follow along to understand what malnutrition actually looks like for a child, and why food alone isn’t enough.

What does mistrust in medicine reveal about the systems we’ve built? For Global Health Justice Week, we’re gathering to read, reflect, and talk about trust - where it’s broken, and how it can be rebuilt. No medical background required. Join us to learn together. Register: https://bit.ly/3PbHWp5

Friends in Guelph - join us on March 23 for a one-night screening of Bending the Arc. An inspiring look at PIH and the movement for health as a human right, and a panel discussion with PIH Canada and Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. 7PM at The Bookshelf, Guelph

On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women whose leadership is transforming health systems and saving lives. Isata's work is transformational in helping ensure that more mothers and babies survive and thrive. Today, we celebrate that.

can you tell how proud we are??

The stories that defined global health equity in 2025. A year-in-review of care, crisis, and community-led response. 🔗 pihcanada.org/news/2025-st...

Ever wonder where your donation actually goes? From your hands to lifesaving care. 🌍❤️ Right now, donations are matched 2×. Give today and double your impact: https://pihcanada.org/stepup

It’s often said governments should “step in” when donor funding falls. But many face high debt, inflation, climate shocks, and shrinking fiscal space. Without external support, the choice is often between cutting care or charging patients — both of which cost lives.

The largest driver is a 67% reduction in U.S. global health spending, alongside cuts from several European donors. Canada’s 2025 federal budget also locks in future reductions to foreign aid, including international health, starting in 2026–27.

After more than 20 years of steady growth, global health funding has sharply reversed. In just one year, funding fell by 21% — from US$49.6B (2024) to US$39.1B (2025). This is one of the steepest declines in decades.

Fragile health systems are not accidents of geography or fate. They are the result of centuries of man-made systems that drained resources and weakened care long before the outbreak began. If the conditions were created, they can be undone. What does that take?

global health cuts aren’t numbers on a page — they’re missed hiv treatments, clinics under strain, and lives pushed closer to the edge. in Toronto, @zackieachmat.bsky.social named the moment clearly: solidarity has to cross borders. ✊🏽🌍

This year’s program draws on the latest issue of Dædalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, which explores the frontiers of mental health today. 🔗 Learn more & register: pihcanada.org/mental-health-matters #MentalHealthMatters #GlobalHealthEquity #PaulFarmer

🗓️ Schedule: 1:30 | Opening 1:45 | Panel: Global mental health care delivery & research 2:35 | Panel: U.S. mental health advocacy & policy 3:30 | Keynote Address 4:30 | Closing

This event is hosted by @pih.org, @harvardmed.bsky.social, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and @harvardgh.bsky.social. Hear from leading experts on how comprehensive, justice-driven approaches can transform mental health care — globally and within the U.S.

From poverty to displacement to systemic inequity, mental well-being is shaped by far more than what happens inside a clinic. On November 18, 1:30–4:30 p.m. ET, join the Paul Farmer Symposium on Global Health Equity: Mental Health Matters 🧵