Chad | Blogs from Doctors Without Borders

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Chad is at the centre of a humanitarian crisis. Conflict in neighbouring Nigeria spilled over in 2015, when Boko Haram launched its violent assault in the Lake Chad region. There are now hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan, Central African Republic (CAR) and Nigeria in the country. Meanwhile, Chad has as many as 170,000 internally displaced people, uprooted from their homes and livelihoods into makeshift camps.

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) first worked in Chad in 1981. Our work focuses on responding to armed conflict, treating endemic/epidemic disease (primarily malnutrition and malaria), and treating people otherwise excluded from medical attention, including refugees and displaced people

Noor Cornelissen

Project Coordination

Who said he wanted a fish anyway?

In Chad, an MSF pilot project is taking a new approach to humanitarian aid. Project coordinator Noor tells us more…

20 Apr 2022 / 6 minute read

MSF staff and community members sit on the floor in a discussion circle

Noor Cornelissen

Project Coordination

Chad: 'Listening can save lives'

When an emergency hits, our teams are experts at providing fast, high quality healthcare. But what happens in a chronic crisis? How can we work with communities to improve health in the long term? Noor is part of an innovative pilot project that's taking a new approach...

21 Mar 2022 / 4 minute read

David Maene Batechi

Logistician

The road to remembering Joel

On the way to meet the family of a team member, sadly lost, logistics coordinator David reflects...

17 Jul 2020 / 7 minute read

Julia Sohn

Epidemiologist

“All data has a story, and it’s an epidemiologist’s job to tell it”

Is it a few isolated cases? Or the beginning of a mass outbreak? When MSF needs answers like this, we turn to our epidemiologists. But how do they get them? Julia introduces a new tool that’s made getting those answers much faster, with potentially life-saving results…

26 Jun 2020 / 8 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: Control over women

Liza blogs from Chad about the role of women in the community where she's based.

29 Nov 2017 / 4 minute read

Lanice Jones

Doctor

Chad: Tiny Hands

Lanice is a doctor from Canada, currently using her skills in the maternity department of the MSF hospital in Am Timan, Chad...

17 Nov 2017 / 5 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: The first time

On a new assignment with MSF / Doctors without Borders, there are always a lot of 'firsts'. Liza shares a few of hers from Chad...

06 Nov 2017 / 4 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: Chez Moi

Where do field workers live when they're on assignment with MSF / Doctors Without Borders? Liza is in Am Timan, Chad, and in today's blog post, she invites us in...

26 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read