Name : Designation : The volatile security situation in Syria means that Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières is forced to manage its projects remotely, from outside the country. Michael Hering from Melbourne, Australia, recently spent six months as Logistics Coordinator in Gaziantep, Turkey, managing projects across the border in Syria. “Within Syria, … Read more
Name : Designation : An adolescent girl born with HIV shares her experience “I was very young when I was told by the counsellors at the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) clinic that I have HIV in my body, a virus that makes me and my parents sick all the time … Read more
Name : Designation : With the conflict between armed groups escalating in Yemen, MSF project coordinator Christine Buesser headed for the southwestern province of Al Dhale, where medical staff are struggling to keep hospitals running in the face of fighting, bombing raids and desperate shortages of medicine and fuel. Stuck in Djibouti Being stranded for 10 … Read more
Name : Designation : Dr Chandni, an anaesthetist from Agra, India, spent 10 weeks in Papua New Guinea with Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). In this letter written upon her return earlier this year, she reflects on her experience and shares her learnings. I was excited to be in Papua New Guinea … Read more
Name : Designation : Pozzallo, Sicily *name has been changed Photo credit: Julie Remy Idris is 20 years old and is a trained nurse from Somalia. Ten days ago, he arrived in Pozzallo, Sicily, along with almost 450 other people, after having endured a six-month ordeal in the hands of smugglers, travelling through Ethiopia, Sudan and … Read more
Name : Designation : “We believe that the violence will continue during Ramadan: a ceasefire won’t be implemented unless the two warring parties respect it” Jasmin Mohammed Ali (26), a teacher in the primary school in Qatabah, and her sister Asia Mohammed Ali ( 25) talk about their daily life in Qatabah since the conflict … Read more
Name : Designation : Meet Charles, living with HIV, alive thanks to affordable medicines Charles Sako lives with his partner Noel and daughter Gift in Kibera, a deprived area of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Charles is HIV positive and receives treatment at an MSF clinic in Kibera. Charles is a healthy and active individual, … Read more
Name : Designation : Dr Chandrika Rao has been on numerous assignments with MSF since 2008 and is currently working as surgical advisor in Amsterdam. She speaks to DVL Padma Priya, Press Officer, MSF India, about the challenges faced by surgeons in the field, and why it’s difficult to match surgeons for MSF projects. … Read more
Name : Designation : An MSF-supported hospital director describes horror of a mass-casualty influx in northwestern Syria In the afternoon of 04 June 2015, a horrific missile strike devastated a town centre in Idlib Governorate, Syria. The wounded arrived in wave after wave at a nearby small makeshift hospital that is supported by Doctors Without … Read more
Name : Designation : DVL Padma Priya, MSF India’s Press Officer, recently returned from Nepal. Here she recounts the experience of seeing MSF medical teams in action and the challenges of managing emergency communications. On Saturday, 25 April, when the earthquake struck Nepal, I felt tremors in Delhi. I wondered where the epicentre was … Read more