Name : Designation : Despite the back to school ceasefire – an agreement signed in September to guarantee a safe environment for children to attend school after the summer – shelling continues in many villages located near the line of contact in eastern Ukraine. After almost three years of conflict, civilians are still bearing the … Read more
Name : Designation : MSF is providing food aid to families in Maiduguri who receive little or no support from other organisations. Many of these people live in the Muna area on the outskirts of the city, where there are eight informal camps with populations ranging from 500 to 6,000 people. Two of the settlements … Read more
Name : Designation : Muwaffaq Mreish, 51 years old From Damascus, Syria “I was living in Damascus when my house was bombed. We lost our property along with all of our furniture. My mother’s and my siblings’ houses were destroyed too. I needed to leave Syria to protect my sons – our lives would have … Read more
Name : Designation : After working with Doctors without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Liberia at the tail end of the Ebola epidemic, Australian Emma Parker spent almost six months as Head Nurse at Al-Salam Hospital in Khamir, Yemen. Emma talks about her time amid the ‘forgotten war’. “There are no commercial flights in or … Read more
Name : Designation : They survived enslavement, kidnapping, persecution, poverty and in some cases, sexual abuse. To them, the only light on the horizon lay just beyond the Mediterranean. They knew the journey would be long and even potentially deadly. Still, they decided to risk it all at sea — some for the sake of … Read more
Name : Designation : Walid Shbat, 30, lost his leg after being injured by a barrel bomb in Dara’a, southern Syria. Medical treatment in neighbouring Jordan restored his health and his sense of optimism. “Thursday 3 December 2015 was a day that will be forever carved in my memory. That was the day I was … Read more
Name : Designation : Al-Marj clinic is one of the most important MSF-supported medical sites in East Ghouta, an area of besieged towns near Damascus. After suffering a series of tragedies, Dr. Abu Yasser*, a GP and director of the medical department of the clinic, describes the newest challenge: no more ambulances. Yesterday [Monday, … Read more
Increasingly drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis (TB) are on the rise in India, particularly in hotspots such as Mumbai. Two new TB drugs, bedaquiline and delaminid, show promising results and offer renewed hope to patients whose TB strains are resistant to nearly all drugs available. But access to these new life-saving drugs in India remains greatly … Read more
Name : Designation : East Aleppo’s besieged residents have been told to leave their homes or face annihilation. As they brace themselves for what comes next, Amal Abdullah recalls the day four years ago that she was told to leave the east Aleppo neighbourhood where she grew u It was mid-July 2012 when the authorities … Read more
Name : Designation : Dr Harihara Subramanian recently returned from Uzbekistan, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides treatment for people living with TB. When I went to Uzbekistan in April 2016, I saw everyone wearing masks in hospitals. The doctors wear N95 respirator masks, and the patients wear surgical masks. This is unlike … Read more