Name : Designation : She had all but given up, thinking her TB was going to end her life. Her coffin had already been built. But then Rohatay Abdullaeva, a former nurse living in northwest Uzbekistan, learned she could get help, that she could heal. As World TB Day approaches, MSF celebrates her good health … Read more
Name : Designation : Visceral leishmaniasis is known worldwide as kala azar. Since 2007 MSF is implementing a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Bihar state, northern India. India 2011 © Anna Surinyach / MSF It is 10 in the morning and several people are already waiting at the lab doors to be tested … Read more
Name : MSF doctor Christoph Höhn examines 16-year-old-Shahmosa in her family home. Tajikistan 2013 © Wendy Marijnissen Designation : MSF doctor Christoph Höhn examines 16-year-old-Shahmosa in her family home.Tajikistan 2013 © Wendy Marijnissen a year ago, 16-year-old Shahmosa could do little more than just lie in bed all day. She was too sick and too … Read more
Name : Designation : Displaced people carry their belongings in Araria district, Bihar state © India 2008 Bjorn Nissen /MSF Hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced in northeastern India and neighboring Nepal after the worst flooding in 50 years. In the Indian state of Bihar, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is providing humanitarian … Read more
The International President of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) leads the International Board and the International General Assembly, and represents MSF International. Dr Unni Karunakara was elected International President in June 2010. He has been involved with MSF since 1995, when he set up a tuberculosis (TB) control programme in Ethiopia. He went on … Read more
Name : Designation : Which is the most resilient? A bacteria? A virus? It’s an idea! Both tough and highly contagious, an idea, in my experience, is almost impossible to root out once it takes hold. © Devi Prasad Mohapatra It was an idea that led to the creation of MSF in 1971 and it … Read more
Name : Forty-eight-year-old Linda Vilakati is one of 55 patients who have just successfully completed treatment for MDR-TB in Swaziland. Swaziland 2013 © Zanele Zwane/MSF Designation : “I feel like jumping and dancing and shouting,” says Linda Vilakati. “It has been a long and difficult journey, but I’ve reached the end.” Forty-eight-year-old Linda Vilakati is … Read more
Name : Designation : Visceral leishmaniasis is known worldwide as kala azar. Since 2007 MSF is implementing a kala azar diagnostic and treatment project in Bihar state, northern India. India 2011 © Anna Surinyach / MSF It is 10 in the morning and several people are already waiting at the lab doors to be tested … Read more
Name : Designation : Amul Rathi, has worked as a logistician with MSF for more than five years. He shares his experiences from setting up mobile health clinics in forest areas of Chhattisgarh in India to managing supplies for a hospital in Iraq. Mobile Health Camp in Chhattisgarh, India© Amul Rathi/ MSF My hometown Sukma … Read more
Name : Designation : Salwah Mekrsh was shot by a sniper in Aleppo. In this photo, taken in April 2013, she is about to start a mental health consultation with MSF staff in Kilis. © Turkey 2013 © Anna Surinyach Eighteen-year-old Salwah Mekrsh is unable to walk. Her mother and her sister push Salwah’s wheelchair … Read more