Healthcare provision

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An MSF staff member talks to a patient at the African Trypanosomiasis project in Tambura, South Sudan

Juan-Carlos Tomasi

Fieldset

Not all disasters strike without warning. Some are slow. They unfold over decades as a disease devastates a community, instability undermines an area’s health system or certain groups are actively excluded from care.

In these situations, Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) works to give people access to much-needed health care.

This can mean setting up an area’s only hospital or clinic, or running ongoing treatment programmes for diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and tropical diseases such as kala azar or sleeping sickness.

Sylvia Schaber

Doctor

All in one bed: An MSF project in Bossangoa

Sylvia is a German doctor, currently working in the Central African Republic on her first assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). In this blog, she writes about the reality or working in the remote town of Bossangoa.

22 Aug 2018

The entrance gates to MSF's project in Bossangoa

Sylvia Schaber

Doctor

Arriving in the Central African Republic: Cold feet and red sand

Sylvia is a German doctor, currently working in the Central African Republic on her first assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Here, she shares her experience of arriving in the remote town of Bossangoa.

08 Aug 2018

Kate Baldwin

Biomedical scientist

Life in Gaza: "Is your future decided by where you are born?"

Does your birthplace determine your future? This is a question Kate, a biomedical scientist from the UK, asked herself while on a recent assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Gaza Strip.

17 Jul 2018

Ian Cross

Doctor

Kenya: How support groups are giving patients power

Ian Cross is a doctor from the UK, currently working in Kenya on his fourth assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Here, he shares how new support groups are helping patients manage long-term illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension.

16 Jul 2018

Kelly DeVore

Health Promoter

Welcome to Kam: Community health in Dhaka’s biggest slum

Around one million people live in Kamrangichar, the largest slum in Dakha. Kelly DeVore, a health promoter from the US, is at the beginning of assignment that will see her working with the local people to improve the health of this crowded community.

13 Jun 2018

Anna Blideman

Nurse

A nurse in Iraq: Health care still in ruins

Anna is working for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Iraq. Today she blogs about the challenges of helping people get the medical treatment they need in an area still feeling the impact of years of war...

23 May 2018

Mike Tomson

Doctor

Jordan: Finding out what patients think of MSF

Mike is a family doctor from the UK who is currently working with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on a project in Jordan covering non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.

15 May 2018

Mary Gallagher

Jordan: "Abdullah is lucky, but a child's health shouldn't come down to chance"

Mary blogs from MSF's mother and child hospital in Jordan, where she met a young patient she'll never forget...

11 May 2018

Alexander Nyman

Doctor

South Sudan Emergency Room: 4:22 pm

ER doctor Alexander Nyman is at the start of a new assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). He blogs from the remote town of Old Fangak, South Sudan...

26 Apr 2018

Mike Tomson

Doctor

Refugees in Jordan: Rumbles of change?

Mike is in Jordan, where he’s part of an Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) project that provides free non-communicable disease care to vulnerable people.

24 Apr 2018