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Marcela, a nurse from Argentina, shares her favourite things about working on assignment in Sierra Leone

The stories that moved us or made us smile from the frontline of our work around the world

Jennifer Tong, an Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) surgeon from Hong Kong, shares the story of Sunny Boy – a young Palestinian she helped recover from a gunshot wound.

British doctor Chris Hook has just returned from Yemen. Since August, he has worked as part of MSF’s emergency team helping to set up a hospital in the Al Salakhana district of Hodeidah city. From the beginning of November, the city has experienced heavy fighting and shelling with battles getting close to the hospital…

From the personal to the powerful, from Ebola to innovation, these posts are just some of the many extraordinary stories shared by Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) field workers in 2018...

Saving lives doesn't always mean medicine. Eben blogs about a Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) team that's not afraid to get its hands dirty in order to fight infection...

Pippa is an obstetrics and gynaecology consultant, recently returned from assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Jahun, part of northern Nigeria’s Jigawa state – an area where high numbers of women and children die during childbirth. 

The majority of MSF teams are not made up of international staff from overseas. Instead, from conflict zones to epidemics, most of our medical and logistical teams are people working in their home countries, using their skills where they are desperately needed. Joanne, a Canadian doctor in South Sudan, celebrates one of our incredible local midwives.