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James Smith

@james_MSF

Prev. Humanitarian Affairs Advisor @MSF, @MSF_UREPH & @MSF_access. Worked in South Sudan & Sierra Leone. All started with @FoMSFUK_Ireland. As per, views mine.

London Katılım Kasım 2016
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MSF Access
MSF Access@MSF_access·
⚡TODAY governments 🌍🌏🌎 meet at @WTO to discuss a proposal that would speed up access to #COVID19 medical tools for everyone. Ask your country to be on the right side of history and support #NoCovidMonopolies! Help us keep up the pressure! 👇 bit.ly/36Wz126
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What about when the state is the primary aggressor? Acts of resistance on the margins, as hooks says. How does collaboration with govt compromise ‘legitimacy’ (however defined...)? More needed on this for #Rakhine, which appears downplayed in favour of a profile on our HIV work
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James Smith@james_MSF·
Great to see the question of collaboration framed in relation to coloniality, saviourism, paternalism. Certainly resonate in relation to MSF’s arrogant approach. Does this mean collaboration is always one element in the pursuit of ethical, respectful, equal and right?
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UNAIDS Global
UNAIDS Global@UNAIDS·
"96% of the @pfizer vaccines have been booked out by rich countries, leaving the poorest 70 countries in the world with only 1 out of 10 of their people vaccinated next year," says @Winnie_Byanyima in this interview with @BBCNews. We need a #PeoplesVaccine, not a profit vaccine.
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"Because of their social and political embeddedness [local staff] are perceived by their foreign colleagues as a potential risk to MSF’s performance of neutrality and impartiality...the presence of temporary foreign staff is seen as a counter-weight to the embeddedness of locals"
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James Smith@james_MSF·
One for you too @AmyNeilson12, @Turtle1doc given recent discussions on how "local" staff are written out of conversations related to risk and security management in @MSF's public discourse...
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Conflict and Health
Conflict and Health@Conflict_Health·
COVID-19 in humanitarian settings: documenting and sharing context-specific programmatic experiences dlvr.it/Rm73vl
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Ärzte ohne Grenzen
Ärzte ohne Grenzen@msf_de·
"Triage ist ein Prozess der Verhandlung mit Kolleg*innen, Familienmitgliedern, der Patient*in selbst, aber auch ein Prozess des Widerstandes - als Arzt/Ärztin kann es sehr schwierig sein, nicht so viel wie möglich für eine einzelne Person zu tun." @james_MSF beim #HCBerlin
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Ärzte der Welt
Ärzte der Welt@aerztederwelt·
On of the takeaways of the pandemic for @james_msf: "We really need to use this opportunity to reorientate our domestic policy making towards essential services like healthcare and education." #hcberlin
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James Smith@james_MSF·
@SeanHealyMSF Thanks for sharing Sean. Certainly thought-provoking. But palliation? *Inevitable* death. Perhaps in the acute, but attempting to palliate someone who has a decent chance of life if X or Y factors change, an unsavory task. Is our role really to accept inevitability of death...?
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James Smith@james_MSF·
.@Lili_Assaba - there cannot be "five steps to decolonise your institution". Decolonisation is complex, messy, involves friction. No neat or clean ways to decolonise institutions and practices that have violent and highly problematic pasts and presents #HCBerlin
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James Smith@james_MSF·
Reflecting on how the decolonisation conversation has developed, @HebaJournalist suggests "We're well past the narrative around "is colonialism at play"". Optimistic too, but internal conversations still suggest a lot of resistance to this reality #HCBerlin
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James Smith@james_MSF·
"Liberation, solidarity ... those words aren't used in humanitarian discourse" - @Tammamo. While we so often hear we're standing "in solidarity with" one community or another, how much is that true to the political meaning of solidarity? cc @sridhartweet #HCBerlin
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