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Elko Brummelman - MSF advocacy manager
Elko Brummelman
Humanitarian Affairs Advisor
Reaching thousands with a click: How the Rohingya helped guide COVID-19 awareness
With COVID-19 hitting the Rohingya refugee community hard, Elko Brummelman and his team knew they needed a new strategy in Malaysia. They wanted expert advice, and they knew just who to ask.
17 Dec 2020 / 7 minute read
Seinn Seinn Min, MSF health promoter
Seinn Seinn Min
Health Promoter
"Hope on wheels": MSF's mobile clinic in Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone, one project is taking healthcare to the people, as health promoter Seinn Seinn reports...
14 Dec 2020 / 6 minute read
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Blogs Team
Four inspiring stories from our life-saving projects - September 2020
As COVID-19 continues to complicate our work in crises around the world, our teams are adapting and innovating to meet these healthcare challenges head-on
30 Sep 2020 / 3 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
Children play the COVID-19 ludo game
Seinn Seinn Min, MSF health promoter
Seinn Seinn Min
Health Promoter
Snakes, ladders, and COVID-19: Health promotion in Pakistan
With a COVID-19 lockdown in place, Seinn Seinn and the team have to find new ways to reach the community. But as she explains, necessity truly is "the mother of invention"…
14 Sep 2020 / 7 minute read
Women at the hepatatis screening camp
Seinn Seinn Min, MSF health promoter
Seinn Seinn Min
Health Promoter
Quarantine Blues: Remembering my good old days in Pakistan
Seinn Seinn Min is a health promoter with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) who has recently returned from a posting in Pakistan. She shares her experience…
03 Sep 2020 / 9 minute read
Hameed Hilal - MSF health promoter
Hameed Hilal
Health Promoter
Camp life in the time of COVID-19
Three years after his family fled Islamic State violence for the safety of a displacement camp, MSF health promoter Hameed shares how the arrival of COVID-19 in Iraq has forced many families to make more difficult choices
06 Aug 2020 / 7 minute read
Ayla Emmink is an MSF doctor from the Netherlands
Ayla Emmink
Doctor
South Sudan: "This is what we signed up for"
As the first cases of COVID-19 are confirmed in South Sudan, doctor Ayla Emmink shares her concerns for communities and patients in an area where many preventative measures are a luxury
29 Jun 2020 / 4 minute read
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Blogs Team
Five inspiring blogs from Doctors Without Borders - May 2020
On the ground, around the world, our staff are delivering medical aid 365 days a year. Here's our selection of eyewitness stories from the frontline in May. * Some of these stories were written before social distancing measures were implemented *
29 May 2020 / 5 minute read
Lili-Marie Wangari
Emergency Coordinator
“Other diseases won't wait for COVID-19 in Africa's largest slum"
As COVID-19 spreads through the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, MSF emergency coordinator Lili-Marie Wangari and her team race to help protect the vulnerable residents of Kibera – one of the largest urban slums in the world
20 May 2020 / 6 minute read
An MSF staff member hosts a COVID-19 health promotion training and information session with a group of volunteer community healthcare workers in the village of Kiziba, North Kivu province, DRC.
Sabrina Rubli
Health Promoter
COVID-19: Debunking myths and quelling fears in DRC
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, MSF health promoter Sabrina and her team are working to ensure people get the right information about COVID-19 – helping to stop rumours and the virus itself from spreading
13 May 2020 / 6 minute read
Shuvai Munyaradzi became pregnant with her third child after being treated for pre-cancerous lesions on her cervix by MSF in Gutu, Zimbabwe.
Séverine Caluwaerts
Obstetrician / Gynaecologist
"We give more than just hope": How MSF is tackling an unseen cancer
Cervical cancer kills hundreds of thousands of women each year, despite being highly preventable and curable. On International Women's Day, Belgian obstetrician and gynaecologist Séverine shares her experience treating women with cervical cancer – and why we must speak out about this deadly but silent killer.  
03 Mar 2020 / 6 minute read

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