You get to do the usual general surgical procedures, which is bowel surgery with its many variations. You get to deal with orthopaedic cases. And you get to deal with obstetric emergencies. For me, the latter was the least familiar. As general surgeons, we don’t get that much training in obstetrics and gynaecology anymore. I […]
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As-salamu alaykum! (“May peace be upon you” in Arabic). This is the common greeting heard here in Bokoro, a town about 300 km east of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad. Bokoro is in central Chad, in the southernmost part of the Sahal belt of Africa, so it is an extremely hot, dry, desert climate with […]
Conor Kenny is a doctor who has recently returned from Greece. He began his assignment working at Idomeni, a transit camp for refugees on the Greek border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. After residents of the Idomeni camp were evicted, Conor moved to Lesbos to work providing healthcare in specialised camps designated for […]
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Organising a successful mass vaccination takes much more than just providing a vaccine to those in need. In the contexts where MSF traditionally works, infrastructures are often weak, especially when it comes to communication. In these instances, it’s a real challenge to make people aware of the service we provide. In August 2016, MSF participated […]
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Community ART groups is a patient-led initiative that gives support to people living with AIDS. By helping with the distribution of drugs to those less able, vital ART (Anti-retroviral) drugs are able to reach those most in need. MSF provides medical aid where it is needed most. To donate to MSF, please click here. To […]
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Sarah is a doctor working on the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. She shares her experience… “Full body aches” is a complaint that every MSF medical staff has seen. In most instances, it’s the body’s way of manifesting stress in a context where physical suffering may be socially acceptable […]
Sarah is about to start her first assignment for MSF, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She blogs about why she decided to sign up, how she’s been preparing, and one very important question… This time a year ago I was an NHS general practitioner in Banbury. In two weeks time I will probably be […]
As the G20 summit draws to an end, we hope that global leaders will push ahead with confronting the problems that mean that people across the world have limited access to medical tools and effective drugs. The MSF Access Campaign, which launched in 1999, winning the Nobel Prize, has had some success stories, but so […]
Ed Taylor is working on board the MV Aquarius, a search and rescue ship run by SOS Mediterranee in partnership with MSF. Read more about MSF’s work here. […]
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Justin Healy, a British doctor from Anglesey in Wales, vlogs from Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he’s running an Ebola survivor clinic. […]
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