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Ijaz Zarin
Ijaz Zarin
Project Coordination
Pakistan: “Every end is a new beginning”
MSF coordinator Ijaz Zarin shares his memories from more than a decade working at a life-saving project in Timergara, Pakistan
04 Mar 2021 / 6 minute read
Tassawar Ali, MSF health promotion supervisor in Pakistan
Tassawar Ali
Health Promoter
Pakistan: Occupational hazards and hepatitis C risk in Machar Colony
Hepatitis C can be life-threatening, but many people don’t know they have the virus. MSF health promoter Tassawar Ali explains how his team is aiming to change that in a slum community in Karachi…
22 Sep 2020 / 5 minute read
Health Promotion Supervisor Tasawwar Ali discusses the stigma of hepatitis C through the visual representation of a butterfly in Machar Colony, Pakistan.
Tassawar Ali, MSF health promotion supervisor in Pakistan
Tassawar Ali
Health Promoter
Mental health matters in Machar
In many societies around the world, talking about mental health is still taboo. Health promoter Tasawwar gets the conversation started among members of a Pakistani fishing community. 
21 Nov 2019 / 3 minute read
Zafar Abdi and colleagues at an MSF project in South Sudan
Zafar Abdi
Zafar Abdi
Finance
How I became a Doctors Without Borders fieldworker (even though I’m not a doctor)
From the snowy mountains of his home country of Pakistan to a healthcare emergency in South Sudan, Zafar shares the story of how he became part of the team...
05 Oct 2019 / 3 minute read
The MSF team distribute essential items to people affected by the 2016 disasters
Ijaz Zarin
Ijaz Zarin
Project Coordination
Looking back : Responding the 2016 earthquake in Pakistan
In 2016 a double disaster struck the communities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in northern Pakistan. Ijaz Zarin was part of the MSF team working to save lives after the district was hit by devastating flooding and then, just days later, an earthquake. He shares his experience...
11 Apr 2019 / 6 minute read
The coastline of Machar Colony
Hassaan Zahid - MSF
Hassaan Zahid
Doctor
Sea breeze from the south: A mobile screening van in Karachi
Hassaan and his team take to the roads as they aim to save lives with an innovative project in Pakistan...
29 Mar 2019 / 9 minute read
The MSF team involved in the hepatitis C screening
Tassawar Ali, MSF health promotion supervisor in Pakistan
Tassawar Ali
Health Promoter
"We don't leave anyone behind": Fighting hepatitis in Pakistan
If you were infected with hepatitis C, would you realise? Most people don't, and that's a real problem in Machar Colony, Pakistan, where many people have no idea that they're living with the virus. Meet the team determined to change that, and to save lives in the process...
20 Mar 2019 / 5 minute read
The health promotion team at an awareness-raising event for hepatitis C
Linnea Nasholm
Linnea Näsholm
Health Promoter
Health promotion in Karachi: how a visit to a fish factory is helping to fight hepatitis C
Hepatitis C can be fatal if left untreated, but 90% of people who contract the virus don't show any initial symptoms. Linnea is in Pakistan as part of a dyamic team responding to this 'silent killer'...
12 Mar 2019 / 8 minute read
Quadruplets
Sundas Pervez MSF
Sundas Parvez
Nurse
Pakistan: The miracle babies
Sundas meets a mother of quadruplets...
08 Mar 2019 / 2 minute read
Khurshid Ahmad consulting with a patient in Pakistan
Khurshid Ahmed MSF
Khurshid Ahmed
Nurse
Pakistan: A new way of treating hepatitis C
In Machar Colony, a slum area of Karachi, an Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team have been treating patients for Hepatitis C using a new line of drugs to combat the virus. 
01 Feb 2019 / 4 minute read
Tariq Khan and an MSF colleague
Tariq Khan MSF
Tariq Khan
Project Coordination
Pakistan: “I am happy that I am somehow helping my people”
Tariq is a project coordinator assistant at a Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Chaman, a town on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan. In this blog, he shares how he is proud to help the people of his hometown.
09 Oct 2018 / 2 minute read
The triplets at Peshawar Women’s Hospital
Sundas Pervez MSF
Sundas Parvez
Nurse
Pakistan: Three baby girls and a proud mother
Sundas Parvez is a nurse in the newborn unit at Peshawar Women’s Hospital in Pakistan, where she has been working with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) since 2014. In this blog, she writes about caring for newborn triplets and the chance to speak to their mother. 
26 Sep 2018 / 3 minute read