Name : Designation : (This article first appeared in The Hindu) Dr Bhavna Chawla, a surgeon, recently returned from her first mission with MSF in Lankien, South Sudan. In this letter, she recounts her experience
Name : Designation : It was at one of the Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) counselling centres in the valley that I first met Khateeja (name changed). Hailing from one of the most volatile
Name : Designation : “Home is the sailor, home from the sea” (Robert Louis Stevenson) Madeleine Habib ran away to sea in her early twenties and found a perfect blend of physical work and mental
In Remeka, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), motorcycle drivers – or “motards” in French – are an integral part of MSF’s emergency response team. In this remote area of the country’s conflict-addled East,
Soon after severe spells of rain flooded Chennai on December 2, 2015, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams began assessment in the affected areas. After a detailed assessment of the needs in
12 December 2015: After two months of in-depth investigations following the US airstrikes that destroyed the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on 3 October, MSF today announces with great sadness that
Barcelona/Gaziantep, 7 December 2015 – An upsurge in fighting and bombing over the past week in northern Syria’s Azaz district, near the Turkish border, is jeopardising medical activities in the few hospitals and health posts
More Than 500,000 People Worldwide Call on White House to Consent to Independent Investigation of U.S. Military Attack on MSF Hospital in Afghanistan WASHINGTON, D.C., DECEMBER 9, 2015 — The international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors
Name : Designation : One-month-old Nubia is the first newborn baby known to have survived Ebola, as well as Guinea’s last reported Ebola patient. In the week she returned home, cured, MSF’s Dr Marie-Claire looks
More people have been forced to flee from Ramadi, capital of Al Anbar Governorate in central Iraq, after violence broke out between Iraqi forces and Daesh in November. Many have crossed the River Euphrates in
MSF calls for companies to make new drugs to treat drug-resistant TB available and affordable Cape Town, 3 December 2015—Nearly three years since the first of two new tuberculosis (TB) medicines became available, the drugs
MSF calls for the opening of a safe and legal passage at the land border between Turkey and Greece Brussels/Athens, 3 December 2015 – A joint operation to rescue people risking their lives on the dangerous
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