A Pleasant Surprise – Caesarean Section in the field
You get to do the usual general surgical procedures, which is bowel surgery with its many variations. You get to deal with orthopaedic cases. And...
Tag: MSF
Life in Chad with MSF
As-salamu alaykum! ("May peace be upon you" in Arabic). This is the common greeting heard here in Bokoro, a town about 300 km east of...
A lost generation – working with young refugees in Greece
Conor Kenny is a doctor who has recently returned from Greece. He began his assignment working at Idomeni, a transit camp for refugees on the...
HOW TO | Vaccinate 710,000 people in 10 days
Organising a successful mass vaccination takes much more than just providing a vaccine to those in need. In the contexts where MSF traditionally works, infrastructures...
Fighting AIDS Saving Lives | Community ART groups
Community ART groups is a patient-led initiative that gives support to people living with AIDS. By helping with the distribution of drugs to those less...
Treating people at sea
Sarah is a doctor working on the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. She shares her experience... “Full body aches”...
Is there wine in the Congo?
Sarah is about to start her first assignment for MSF, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She blogs about why she decided to sign up,...
Greater transparency for global health
As the G20 summit draws to an end, we hope that global leaders will push ahead with confronting the problems that mean that people across...
Vlog: Search and rescue in the Mediterranean
Ed Taylor is working on board the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship run by SOS Mediterranee in partnership with MSF. Read more about...
VLOG | Running an Ebola survivor clinic in Sierra Leone
Justin Healy, a British doctor from Anglesey in Wales, vlogs from Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he's running an Ebola survivor clinic.
