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Tessa Thadiens drinks tea with MSF colleagues

Tessa Thiadens

Doctor

South Sudan: Litres of tea!

Tessa blogs about the surprisingly valuable ritual of drinking tea while on assignment in South Sudan

03 May 2017 / 1 minute read

Tessa Thiadens

Doctor

South Sudan: Sad Names

Tessa blogs about a pair of newborn twins, and the stories their names can tell...

19 Apr 2017 / 2 minute read

Gerrit Ritmeester

Logistician

Tajikistan: Celebrating World AIDS Day

The 1st of December was World AIDS Day.

12 Dec 2016 / 4 minute read

Bart Bardok

Project Coordination

Pakistan - Expect the Unexpected

Bart is a project coordinator for MSF in Balochistan, in the south west of Pakistan. He blogs about taking a road trip with the mobile clinic team, and the fight against childhood malnutrition...

17 Aug 2016 / 4 minute read

Karline Kleijer

Emergency Coordinator

One two three airstrike

Karline desribes her tricky journey to Taiz. The situation in Taiz city is devastating. It’s a large city of 600,000 people with a frontline running down the middle. There is active fighting and daily airstrikes. The situation is particularly bad in one neighbourhood of Taiz city, home to about 50,000 people, which has effectively been under siege since July.

13 Nov 2015 / 4 minute read

Jeltje Danhof

Doctor

The heroes of the storm

I wrote these diary entries in the wake of Cyclone Komen at the end of July 2015, after days of severe rains across much of Myanmar.

18 Aug 2015 / 3 minute read

Flood

Jeltje Danhof

Doctor

The street that turned into a river

I wrote these diary entries in the wake of Cyclone Komen at the end of July 2015, after days of severe rains across much of Myanmar. Wednesday

11 Aug 2015 / 3 minute read

Flood

Erna Rijnierse

Doctor

'I don't know what to expect so we wait and watch'

MSF doctor Erna Rijnierse has been recording an audio diary for BBC Radio 4 from the Phoenix, a search and rescue boat operating in the Mediterranean Sea with MSF and Migrant Offshore Aid Station (

08 Jun 2015 / 1 minute read

Erna Rijnierse

Doctor

Distress call

MSF coordinate missions with the Italian coastguard who alert them to boats where medical assistance is needed. On this occasion MSF find a wooden fishing boat with 369 people on board, without life jackets and all crammed together in a terribly small space. People are brough onto the Phoenix medically checked and given a rescue kit with the where with all to keep them warm and hydrated.

26 May 2015 / 5 minute read

Erna Rijnierse

Doctor

Saving small children at sea

Third instalment of Erna diary for BBC Radio 4.

14 May 2015 / 1 minute read

Erna Rijnierse

Doctor

You get attached to people

Erna Rijnierse, an MSF doctor aboard our project with Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) rescue mission, has been recording her diary for the BBC Today programme. This is the second instalment from the Phoenix.

07 May 2015 / 1 minute read

Erna Rijnierse

Doctor

I tried to imagine what it would be like

Working on search and rescue

05 May 2015 / 1 minute read