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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

David Maene Batechi
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
An MSF car on a dusty track in Chad
Julia Sohn, MSF epidemiologist
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
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
Liza Courtois
Nurse
Chad: A typical day
What's a 'normal' day like when you're working with Doctors Without Borders / MSF? Nurse Liza is is Am Timan, Chad, and shares hers...
22 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read
Liza Courtois
Nurse
Chad: Arrival
Liza is in Am Timam, Chad, where malnutrition and malaria have been hitting the local people hard...  
19 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read
Lanice Jones
Lanice Jones
Doctor
Re-Animation!
"In French, resuscitation is called ‘reanimation’. This did feel very much like a body becoming re-animated, returning to life."
01 Oct 2017 / 4 minute read
Sarah Wookey
Doctor
Night shift in Chad: Hot off the ward
UK doctor Sarah Wookey blogs about a long hot night in the MSF hospital in Am Timan, Chad...
26 Jun 2017 / 5 minute read
Sarah Wookey discusses a patient with an MSF colleague
Sarah Wookey
Doctor
Chad: Jumping Jack Flash
Sarah is a GP from the UK, on assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Chad, Africa's fifth largest country. She blogs about camel road rage, boozy anecdotes and magic capsules...
07 Apr 2017 / 5 minute read
Armando 'Armandoc' Garcia
Doctor
Chad: The crossroads
Armando is a doctor working with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctor Without Borders (MSF) in Chad. Here he blogs about the significance of Lake Chad: a crossroads of violence, hope and solidarity during recent armed conflict. 
04 Apr 2017 / 3 minute read