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An Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) nurse’s work is diverse. Our nurses have found themselves operating therapeutic feeding centres, running in/outpatient clinics, implementing vaccination campaigns and organising mother-child health programmes.

They may take on managerial roles, heading departments in hospitals or health centres and training and supervising other nursing staff. Standing at the forefront of primary healthcare in our projects, MSF nurses are highly responsive, adaptable and compassionate people, committed to their work and helping those in need.

Read the blog posts below to find out more about life as an MSF nurse, or click here to find out more about applying to join the team.

Rita M. Nelson

Nurse

Ebola: Preventing another outbreak in Liberia

After an Ebola outbreak was declared in Guinea earlier this year, epidemic surveillance was stepped in in neighbouring areas of Liberia. Rita, a nurse and infection prevention specialist, shares her experience of the effort...

16 Jul 2021 / 5 minute read

Tents in a circle. NB. The photo in this blog post are all in colour - a contrast to all of Benjamin's other posts which are in black and white

Benjamin Le Dudal

Nurse

Malnutrition in Madagascar: My last clinic

Nurse Benjamin Le Dudal writes from the end of his assignment in Madagascar's nutrition crisis...

09 Jul 2021 / 6 minute read

Benjamin Le Dudal

Nurse

Malnutrition in Madagascar: "Explo" life

Nurse Benjamin and the team continue their work to find the areas of the country most affected by malnutrition...

26 Jun 2021 / 10 minute read

Benjamin Le Dudal

Nurse

Malnutrition in Madagascar: Narrow paths

Nurse Benjamin joins an "explo" - an exploratory trip to remote corners of a region experiencing a nutritional crisis...

11 Jun 2021 / 10 minute read

Benjamin Le Dudal

Nurse

Malnutrition in Madagascar: Life, death and drums

Cut off from affordable healthcare, families living at the heart of Madagascar's food crisis face difficult decisions. Nurse Benjamin Le Dudal shares the experience of one mobile clinic team taking treatment to the people.

02 Jun 2021 / 11 minute read

Chiara Domenichini

Nurse

Innovation: A new way to manage menstrual hygiene in a humanitarian crisis?

Access to good menstrual hygiene is key to women’s health and wellbeing. But too often in humanitarian crises their needs go unmet. Can an innovative approach find a culturally appropriate solution to this problem? Nurse Chiara Domenichini introduces a new project that’s aiming to find out…

27 May 2021 / 6 minute read

Women help build the shade nets for the clinic

Benjamin Le Dudal

Nurse

Malnutrition in Madagascar: Progress

Nurse Benjamin and the team do their first return trip to a village caught up in Madagascar's nutritional crisis...

24 May 2021 / 7 minute read

Benjamin Le Dudal

Nurse

Malnutrition in Madagascar: Pili-pili

In some of Madagascar's remote communities, a hidden malnutrition crisis is threatening young lives. Nurse Benjamin Le Dudal takes us on the road as the team works to get life-saving treatment to those most in need.

15 May 2021 / 8 minute read

An MSF team arrive at the village of Ranobe in Madagascar

Benjamin Le Dudal

Nurse

Malnutrition in Madagascar: Into the “healthcare desert”

Nurse Benjamin Le Dudal takes us along with a mobile clinic team visiting remote villages in Madagascar's crisis-hit south

07 May 2021 / 10 minute read

Benjamin Le Dudal

Nurse

Malnutrition in Madagascar: Arriving in Ambovombe

Nurse Benjamin Le Dudal travels to the remote town of Ambovombe and the heart of Madagascar’s unseen food crisis

27 Apr 2021 / 8 minute read

Vera Schmitz

Nurse

When fear extinguishes hope – A report from Tigray

In the Tigray region of Ethiopia, armed conflict has been raging for months, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee for their lives. Nurse Vera Schmitz has recently returned from an emergency assignment in the area, and shares her experiences...

18 Mar 2021 / 7 minute read

MSF HIV team members in Eswatini doing the Jerusalema Dance to raise awareness of PrEP

Michelle Daka

Nurse

Eswatini: How we joined the Jerusalema dance challenge to help save lives

Reducing the number of people who contract HIV is a major goal for Nurse Michelle and the MSF team in Eswatini. Worried that key health information wasn’t reaching the people most at risk, they decided to try a different kind of viral challenge…

30 Nov 2020 / 4 minute read

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