MSF Blogs From the Field

Find out first hand what it is like for the MSF field staff who work on our projects around the world.

These blogs are written by a whole host of different people working in a variety of jobs from some of the most inaccessible and difficult places there are. They provide a unique insight into the lives of the people who are on the frontline of MSF's life-saving work.

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Chris Houston, Scot, logistician, karaoke singer

Photo by Chris Houston

The End

From a blog by: Chris Houston

Date: 29/01/2010

I left Papua New Guinea in the middle of October. I am writing this at the end of December. Since then I went to South East Asia with the intention of relaxing, but actually ended up partying all night most of the time. Later, I met with MSF to debrief and then [...]

2010 MSF Field Blogs

From a blog by: Edith Fortier, Project Coordinator

Date: 11/01/2010

FENNA SNATER Logistician Fenna Snater, writes her field blog, “In Africa”, from an HIV treatment project in Epworth township, just outside the captial city of Harare, Zimbabwe. DANIELA WIDMER Nurse, Daniela Widmer, manages in-patient care and writes “The Forgotten Land” in a remote hospital in Boguila, Central African...

Condition: Critical is an online multimedia project by MSF, giving a voice to those affected by the war in Congo (DRC)

Messages of support for the people of Eastern Congo

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

Date: 16/12/2009

Beginning in November 2009, visitors to Condition: Critical were invited to leave messages of support for the people of Eastern Congo. Read the messages that people have left. Already, a selection of these messages have been taken to an MSF project in North Kivu and shared with people there. More messages will be taken to DRC in [...]

When accidents happen

From a blog by: Edith Fortier, Project Coordinator

Date: 09/12/2009

Awareness of road safety is not big here in NWFP. Firstly, many of the roads hardly deserve the name and that certainly doesn’t help. But more significant is the general attitude of what I can only describe as recklessness (or perhaps carelessness?) displayed by most drivers and pedestrians alike. The result: road accidents are a [...]

Fiona replies to a reader’s comment

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

Date: 03/12/2009

Fiona, I admire your courage and have enjoyed reading about your thoughts and experiences. I noticed that you wrote this on April 21st, 2009, (my 32nd birthday). I live in the US and can only imagine what its like where you are. Recent stories of the Crisis were featured today on the Oprah Winfrey Show, so [...]

Mission to Mwenga: Day 7

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

Date: 03/12/2009

On the long return journey today, we had a reality check on how aid agencies are seen from the outside. As we waited at one of the numerous roadblocks, a woman approached us and said she needed to be transported immediately to hospital, as she had been raped the day before (it is important [...]

MSF vaccinates more than 165,000 children against measles in Masisi, North Kivu

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

Date: 30/11/2009

An epidemic of measles is currently raging in the Miandgja, Ngomashi and Lwibo districts in the Masisi region, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. There are hundreds of thousands of children living in these areas who have not been immunised against measles. MSF has therefore launched a large-scale emergency vaccination campaign and has also treated [...]

Mission to Mwenga: Day 6

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

Date: 30/11/2009

We had an interesting meeting with the traditional ethnic leaders of Kitutu today. Each of them had come with lists of names of people who had been displaced from their villages. I asked them why so few of their people visit the health centres here (some health facilities are only used by about 10% [...]

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MSF Blogs From the Field

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The End

From a blog by: Chris Houston

2010 MSF Field Blogs

From a blog by: Edith Fortier, Project Coordinator

Messages of support for the people of Eastern Congo

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

When accidents happen

From a blog by: Edith Fortier, Project Coordinator

Fiona replies to a reader’s comment

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

Mission to Mwenga: Day 7

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

MSF vaccinates more than 165,000 children against measles in Masisi, North Kivu

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

Mission to Mwenga: Day 6

From a blog by: Condition: Critical

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