As malaria season hits the Nigerian city of Maiduguri, home to thousands of people displaced by conflict, Swedish doctor Marten is fighting to save the lives of the most vulnerable children.
In Bossangoa, in the west of the Central African Republic, Antoine has joined the Medecines Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders team during the peak season for malaria. He blogs…
Saschveen has recently returned from assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Nduta, Tanzania, where she was providing vital healthcare to the many Burundian refugees there. She shares her diary from the time...
Paediatrician Julia blogs about the start of her first assignment for MSF, in Niger, the largest country in west Africa.
Amy is a nurse from Canada. She blogs about packing up her life at home to join the more than 300 people who work together in the MSF hospital in Lankien, in the north of South Sudan...
Malaria kills around 660,000 people a year, world-wide. When the number of cases in North Kivu reached emergency levels, Emily and the rest of the team had to work fast to set up mobile malaria clinics at different sites across the region. In her last photo blog, Emily showed how the team worked quickly to get the clinics set up. In this post, she blogs about what happens when patients start to arrive...
Emily is a project coordinator in the North Kivu Emergency Response Unit (NKERU). The team works quickly to respond to the most urgent health needs in the North Kivu region of DRC. When the number of people with malaria increased dramatically, Emily and the rest of the unit got to work. Fast.
