Women

Teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are working with local communities to understand more about the challenges displaced women face in managing menstrual hygiene. Could a simple idea lead to a potential solution? Deputy medical coordinator Dr Alain Kikwaya-Vangi shares an update …

07 Mar 2022 / 3 minute read

Rebecca with a colleage at Paharer Uddi Hospital in Cox's Bazar

Rebecca Smith

Nurse

Bangladesh: “Let us do it together”

Rebecca Smith first began working with MSF when she was a refugee herself in Ivory Coast. Now she's the medical activities manager at the MSF "hospital on the hill", which serves Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. She shares her remarkable story...

07 Mar 2022 / 4 minute read

Fikile Ngwenya

Driver

Eswatini: “To the women: Go there, do it!”

Drivers are vital to all of MSF's projects, using their skills and local knowledge to ensure staff, patients, equipment and supplies travel safely in sometimes hazardous terrain. In Eswatini, driving is a role traditionally associated with men, but Fikile Ngwenya wasn't going to let that stand in her way...

27 Feb 2022 / 4 minute read

Alexandre Bublitz

Paediatrician

Hauwa and Falmata: Strength and resilience in Maiduguri

The ongoing conflict in Northern Nigeria has forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes and livelihoods. Many of them have taken refuge in the town of Maiduguri, including Falmata and her daughter Hauwa. Paediatrician Alexandre shares their story...

28 Aug 2019 / 5 minute read

Sylvia Schaber

Doctor

Difficult decisions, serious consequences

"From a western European perspective, this idea is difficult to understand. Here, however, traditions are deeply rooted in the local communities..."

03 Nov 2018 / 4 minute read

Lisa Lepine

Obstetrician / Gynaecologist

Sexual violence in South Sudan: A bleak proposal

Lisa, an obstetritian / gynaecologist from the USA, has just returned from an assignment with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Aweil, South Sudan. Here she blogs about helping a young woman who has survived sexual violence...

30 Apr 2018 / 3 minute read

Kirsti Rinne

Midwife

Delivering babies in South Sudan: Life lessons

Kirsti is a midwife from the USA, currently working for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders in South Sudan. Today she blogs about a first-time mother and trying to learn from her patients...

26 Apr 2018 / 4 minute read

Liza Courtois

Nurse

Chad: Control over women

Liza blogs from Chad about the role of women in the community where she's based.

29 Nov 2017 / 4 minute read

Alice Gautreau

Midwife

VLOG: Becoming the only midwife on board a search and rescue vessel

"It will be very challenging, but I feel ready"

26 Jul 2017 / 1 minute read

Georgina Woolveridge

Doctor

Surviving sexual violence in Bangladesh: "An endless battle"

Dr Georgina Woolveridge recently spent six months working in Kamrangirchar, a slum area on the outskirts of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. She describes some of the factors fuelling violence in the overcrowded slum.

04 Apr 2017 / 3 minute read

Sarah Wookey

Doctor

Chad: The Angry Blog

Sarah is a GP from the UK, on assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Chad, Africa's fifth largest country.

21 Mar 2017 / 6 minute read

Tiziana Cauli

Communications

Search and rescue: The Women

So far this year, 333 women have been rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by the team on the search and rescue vessel MV Aquarius. Tiziana, the communication manager on board, blogs about meeting two of them.

10 Mar 2017 / 9 minute read

Women

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