Due to the increased risk posed by COVID-19 on homeless Canadians and those at risk of homelessness in Canada, the federal government announced a $157.5 million investment into the Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy.
This policy is intended to limit COVID-19's impact on this vulnerable population and as a result, new flexibilities to the program have been introduced.
This page outlines Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada's efforts to address the heightened vulnerabilities of substance users during the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of ensuring these people still have access to treatment and harm reduction services.
This page includes efforts to improve overdose prevention sites, facilitate access to medications, provide awareness on changing medication access, provide information on COVID-19's impacts on subs
This statement highlights Canada's involvement in the global response to COVID-19 with the introduction of a $375 million investment to help further fund the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, which helps lower and middle-income countries gain access to diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines.
This publication also outlines the various supports the federal government has implemented to aid countries in their fight against COVID-19.
This resource outlines the government's efforts to protect persons with disabilities within Canada against COVID-19.
This page describes why people with disabilities may be more vulnerable to COVID-19, how to protect a loved one, how the healthcare system and COVID-19 assessment centers are accessible to people with disabilities, special considerations, the prevention control measures that have been implemented, and mental health considerations/supports.
This document highlights the efforts of the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat to ensure the federal government is adequately responding to the intensified inequalities presented by COVID-19.
This report discusses the development of the new interdepartmental COVID-19 taskforce to tackle COVID-19 inequalities, the virtual COVID-19 town hall series, and the government's response as a result of this taskforce.
This report highlights the lack of and need for both race and ethnic-based data to more adequately address the inequalities faced by minority groups like those seen during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
This publication discusses the extraordinary challenges faced by members of our disabled population during the pandemic through health-related and inclusion-related obstacles and how measures implemented by the Canadian government have been aimed to address these problems.
In addition, this report highlights the legal obligation of the government to address both health and inclusion-related rights.
This publication was developed by Employment and Social Development Canada in order to address the disproportional challenges faced by persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a result, the Government of Canada developed the COVID-19 Disability Advisory Group (CDAG) in order to inform the minister on the challenges faced by these people throughout the pandemic in order to promptly develop strategies to address them.
This page discusses the role Canada has played to combat COVID-19 internationally, in particular, the investments made to assist the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator.
Additionally, this report speaks to the importance of the ACT-Accelerator and what it has been able to accomplish with help from countries like Canada.
This final progress report published by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs discusses the global humanitarian effort to tackle COVID-19 through the Global Humanitarian Response Plan (GHRP) that was created in March, 2020.
This report contains the details on the GHRP, how it has been addressing the humanitarian consequences of COVID-19, the financial overview and challenges,