MSF in Kenya

Fighting HIV in Kenya: Tales from Homa Bay

Lakshmi wrote this during the unrest around the Kenyan elections, in October 2017. The nurses' strike has since ended, and Lakshmi is still working for MSF / Doctors Without Borders in Homa Bay...

12 Feb 2018 / 5 minute read

Caroline attempts to resuscitate a patient

Caroline Frost

Arzt/Ärztin

Kenya: The Impossible Art of Picking Your Battles

For five months a nurses’ strike in Kenya meant many hospitals were unable to function. Caroline is part of the MSF team supporting the emergency department at the Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital in Eastlands, a slum area in the country’s capital, Nairobi. Although the strike has now come to an end, here Caroline blogs about one day in the department, and the tough decisions faced by the team during that time…

07 Nov 2017 / 8 minute read

Eamonn Faller

Arzt/Ärztin

Beatrice

Eamonn blogs from Kenya about a very young patient he met in the midst of a national strike...

20 Jul 2017 / 5 minute read

Eamonn Faller

Arzt/Ärztin

Kenya: Disasters and triumphs at the HIV clinic

Fresh into his first MSF assignment in Kenya, Irish doctor Eamonn delves into work at our HIV clinic in Homa Bay County.

20 Jun 2017 / 6 minute read

Gordon Oyugi

Pflegepersonal

Kenya: Teamwork is key to fighting TB

TB is a highly contagious disease which causes damage to the lungs. It is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Gordon works at an MSF clinic in Kenya which is aiming to fight the disease. He introduces us to his job...

24 Mai 2017 / 4 minute read

Mercy Githara

Mental health specialist

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: 'We share strength among ourselves'

Mercy Githara works in an MSF clinic for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Nairobi, Kenya.

30 Nov 2016 / 2 minute read

Sam Faber

Arzt/Ärztin

Kibera: 20 years of MSF in one of Africa's largest slums

Sam is a doctor from the UK currently on his first assignment with MSF. He blogs about the work of the team in Kibera, a settlement in Nairobi, where MSF treats patients with a wide range of health needs, including HIV, TB, and support after sexual and gender based violence.

19 Okt 2016 / 5 minute read