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Somaliland: the hospital of hope

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:49:34 GMT

As our plane touches down in the capital Hargeisa my first impression of Somaliland is its barren, low lying landscape and the number of goats and camels on the runway!

Non-stop day: working at a mobile clinic in Ivory Coast

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:21:18 GMT

Soon after dawn every day, two teams of three nurses leave Tabou, a tiny town on the Atlantic in the West African country of Ivory Coast, to set up mobile health clinics in remote villages.

Horn of Africa: "A situation which is tragic beyond words..."

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:17:02 GMT

Greetings from a VERY dusty Somali Region in Ethiopia. I would have liked to have emailed sooner but as I am sure you have heard on the news, it has been a difficult time. The start of the situation was apparent from March but it has grown in proportions that I could not have imagined.

A cruel reality: Coping with life in North Kivu, DRC

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:12:29 GMT

Torture, forced labour, harassment, rape, armed attacks, killings and lootings happen weekly, if not daily, in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dealing with a refugee health crisis in Kenya

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:00:00 GMT

It started when Abu, our liaison officer, told me that there were lots of people who had just arrived and were settling outside the boundaries of the refugee camp.

Somalia: Malnutrition is on the rise

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:00:00 GMT

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen hundreds of malnourished children — more than I have ever seen in my life before and more than I ever want to see again. I’m a father myself, so seeing children in such a bad state, hour after hour, day after day, is difficult.

Bearing witness: potential for famine in Niger

Fri, 27 May 2011 12:00:00 GMT

Two inseparable elements are combined in MSF’s work: medical aid and witnessing (témoignage). Witnessing consists of being present among the population, being motivated by a concern for their fate as human beings, and listening to the people.

Libya: After the evacuation

Tue, 10 May 2011 12:00:00 GMT

We had just returned from MSF’s second evacuation of war-wounded from the besieged city of Misrata to the safety of hospitals in Tunisia.

Ivory Coast: “Patients are stable, but their problems are not over”

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

I arrived in western Ivory Coast on Sunday, 27th March. On Monday morning, we were still getting ready when the first wounded patients arrived. The 28th March major offensive had just begun.

Evacuation of war-wounded from Libya by boat

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT

It’s 11.30 on Sunday morning, and we are sitting in international waters, 20 miles off the Libyan coast, trying to make a vital contact to give us the all clear to enter the port of Misrata.

First few weeks in Quetta, Pakistan

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Been here five weeks now, can’t quite believe it. First weeks were overwhelming and frustrating, trying to get my head round how everything works. I better understand the needs now, the personalities, the systems. I’ve started to understand consumption: to anyone working with MSF that means a lot – but still got a way to go. Time is going much faster now; initially, once the reports were done and emails read, I didn’t know what to do with myself in the office. Now I’m working long, very long hours.

A day at Birchenough SGBV clinic

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:00:00 GMT

It’s Friday, 7.30 am - it’s a warm and sunny day in Gweru. A seemingly usual summer day… However, when I get to the clinic I get the feeling it will not be a “usual day”. I see a woman and a young girl sitting outside the Counselling room. They are both looking down, not talking to each other, they seem so detached…

Challenging logistics... in Chad

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:00:00 GMT

I’m back in the UK after a three-month mission as a logistician in Chad for two emergency nutrition projects. The most common question my friends and family keep asking me is ‘...but what did you actually do out there?’

Domestic violence in PNG

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Everyone back home wants to know what Papua New Guinea is like. “Is it true that cannibals still exist?” is the usual question to spring from their lips. (The answer is no. Well, not really. Actually, maybe. I still haven’t got a straight answer on that one.)

“Pal can go home today.”

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Like his mother and elder sister, two-year-old Pal suffered from leishmaniasis, a very serious disease, before receiving treatment from us in Pagil, Southern Sudan. “Pal can go home today,” I said to his mother, who was beaming with joy. But this type of treatment didn’t become available overnight:

Maternal care in Quetta, Pakistan

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:00:00 GMT

A day in the life of an MSF midwife.

Flooding worsens

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT

After a very busy week responding to the Kagara flood on September 1st, my heart sank at news of more flooding on the 9th of September. A doctor and I went to investigate.

Fighting malnutrition in the aftermath of the floods

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT

We were out in the countryside about 80km from Dera Murad Jamali conducting a mobile clinic when we came across a family sitting by the side of the road. Everybody else had evacuated. There were floodwaters all around, but this group weren’t moving anywhere.

Flooding in Kagara

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Wednesday 1st September 2010, 10:30am. The coordinator of our mother and child centre in Goronyo called. She had received reports of 200 deaths in nearby Kagara village, caused by flooding. The immediate needs were shelter, food and water.

"We are distributing constantly, but at the moment it is not enough"

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:00:00 GMT

We’ve been running a number of mobile clinics in Fadfedar canal, in the areas around Manjoshori and in Khabula, where the people we struggled to reach not long ago are now relatively accessible. Here in Dera Murad Jamali (DMJ) we are treating a lot of watery diarrhoea and we’ve begun to support obstetric emergency in the hospital. The numbers of women needing consultations has really increased. We’re seeing a lot of women with placenta praevia, eclampsia and all manner of obstructions, complications and obstetric emergency cases. Our doctors are working around the clock to treat them.

"We’re trying to make a miracle happen"

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Straight away there were rumours about many affected areas. Our team based in Usta Muhammad has been very busy, getting out to remote communities in Baluchistan, handing out emergency relief kits and starting medical treatment.

"We will find a way"

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:00:00 GMT

We'd heard that there were a group of people around Khabula who were stuck and isolated, but we weren't sure of exactly where they were. It took us more than two days to find them, driving around in 4x4s because the flooding has made it so difficult to get around. I was shocked when we found them - I had been in this area three or four days before and the area was completely dry. People had been farming, keeping their livestock, living their normal lives and then all of a sudden here it was completely flooded. Usually there is rain and then flooding. Here there was a flood under a scorching sun.

One foot in front of the other

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

On the evenings when meetings don’t run over and patients don’t arrive too late, I like to walk home from the office. It’s a golden walk, with the sun low in the sky behind me and my lengthening shadow ahead.

The volume of our work has not declined

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Saint-Louis is a hospital inside inflatable tents. The order for it was placed the day after the January 12 earthquake. It involved a huge, around-the-clock logistical effort to get it here, set it up and then operate on the first patient on 25th January.

Motivation

Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Once again I find myself wondering what drives us to undertake this sort of work. I remember my friend Daniel saying that there are 4 motivations for working with MSF – escape, adventure, money and idealism. In talking of escape, he was referring to the fact that many undertake this sort of work when they are trying to put their past behind them and move on, or even literally escape an uncomfortable situation back home.

Interview with Marcus Bleasdale

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Marcus Bleasdale, the photographer behind “Frustration”, travelled to Djibouti in northeast Africa where he captured not only what malnutrition looks like, but also why it exists, how mothers of malnourished children experience it, and what MSF is doing to try to fight it.

This world is crazy, mixed up.

Tue, 18 May 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Ntabamhlope is one of my favourite clinics. And it’s not just the fascinating name that I enjoy. It’s the cross-country journey we take to get there. It’s the ancient, broad trunked tree in the corner of the compound. It’s the way someone has planted flowers around its base and is taking the trouble to tend them. The pharmacy is almost bare, but the limited stock is stacked neatly on the shelves in alphabetical order. The nurses there are already very skilled, but they let me teach them what I can and their uniforms are the whitest I’ve ever seen.

A Momentous Day?

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Mr S looked calm and somewhat bemused by the commotion. He had twice unsuccessfully undergone standard treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and had been taking antiretrovirals for HIV for over a year – he was used to medications and health workers. But today was different.

Needs

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

One of the MSF priorities when deciding whether to open or close a project is to be “needs-driven”. It is one of the reasons that I like working for MSF. This means designing projects, not because they are easy for MSF to access, but because there are real humanitarian medical needs that have been identified during an initial assessment.

A day in the life...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:00:00 GMT

To give a better idea of what it is like to be running mobile clinics in remote parts of Eastern Congo, here is a little summary of what I did today…

Letter from Jenna in Papua New Guinea

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Hey all! I hope you are all well. Any more news from home/ rest of the world? I'm exhausted after the last few weeks and half asleep at the moment. Patients keep coming and they seem to present more sick each time. I'm tired of seeing people die, of seeing babies die before they've even had a chance in this world.

And the queues get longer...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

As the message spreads that MSF is providing free health care through mobile clinics, the length of the queues of patients awaiting our arrival each morning is growing. Our MSF doctor and nurse are getting used to doing 10 hours of back-to-back consultations, with only time for a few bananas to eat during the day!

At night I sleep under a tent, during the day I work under one

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

I am 30 years old and I work for MSF as a physiotherapist. I help victims of the earthquake in their rehabilitation by providing manual treatment like massages or helping amputees with their mobility. Some will have to use crutches or walkers and I make sure their recovery goes smoothly.

Kitutu

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Two months after carrying out a health assessment in Kitutu, South Kivu, in eastern DRC, I have returned with a small team to run mobile clinics for the local population, in particular the displaced families.

Leaving Haiti

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

I’ve been dreading this day because there is no easy way to say goodbye. I have developed so much affection and respect for Haitians, who carry such dignity in the face of this crippling adversity.

Living MSF

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The moment the earthquake destroyed so many homes and lives in Haiti I, still new to the organisation, got to experience the essence of MSF. The news of the catastrophe reached us fast: communications were sent out from headquarters keeping us up to date on our colleagues that went missing, those that were miraculously rescued and those we lost.

Miraculous moments in Haiti

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

In any tragedy there are miraculous moments. A couple of those moments occurred today.

Sudan: Dahabaya in Shangil Tobaya

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Shangili Tobaya Talgi Dahabaya, is a rhyme from the opening song of an old Sudanese television series that takes place in Shangil Tobaya. The words Shangil Tobaya translate from Sudanese colloquial Arabic as “flip a brick” and the popular rhyme translates to “flip a brick you will find gold”.

"Their behaviour speaks louder than words"

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Things are slowly changing. Everyday when I walk into our office and our hospitals there are small noticeable changes and supplies are finally piling up in our storage, there is some order to the madness. MSF’s programme is also evolving.

I woke up shaking

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

I had the scare of my life this morning. I had hoped I could sleep in an extra 10 minutes because I’ve been working on 5 hours sleep a night for the last week and am hitting the bottom of the barrel.

First report since arriving in Port-au-Prince

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

The situation remains critical, few aid agencies in place, still hundreds of bodies stuck in buildings. I've only seen about 4 or 5 trucks and cranes trying to remove buildings to get people out, in the entire city!

MSF in the Prison of Hunger, Bunia, DRC.

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT

Over a two-month period, seventeen prisoners referred from Bunia Prison, in the eastern district of Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to the city’s hospital have died - victims of severe malnutrition. An MSF team working in Bunia recently went to the prison to try to put an end to the tragic situation occurring at the prison, into which, more than 500 prisoners are crammed, barely one third of them having been before a judge.

On saying goodbye

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:00:00 GMT

The last day in the field is a blur: some final handover of reports and evaluations and lessons learned the hard way before I forget; a sumptuous lunch followed by a grand afternoon tea organised respectively by the wonderful staff in my two departments; pictures and hand-shakes and exchanging contact details…

My girlfriend has locked me in my room

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:00:00 GMT

My girlfriend has locked me in my room. She doesn’t usually treat me this way and if you can hear a banging that’s her nailing lumps of wood across the door to stop me trying to go to work, running mobile clinics here in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) . The reason for this? Because I managed to get malaria this week.

Success never just comes

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:00:00 GMT

“Success Never Just Comes” is the motto of one of the schools we pass during the four-hour drive to Gokwe Prison. Now that we are in the final weeks of the project, this reminder isn’t really necessary.

Get up, vaccinate, go to bed.

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT

In February and March this year, MSF completed an emergency vaccination campaign in eastern Chad, immunising a total of 98,000 children against measles. Due to high levels of malnutrition and lack of good healthcare, children in Chad are much more vulnerable to disease; the morbidity rate for children contracting measles is around 30%.

Four months’ hard labour in Zimbabwe’s prisons

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT

I’m currently working with a cattle rustler, two bank felons and someone who’ll only admit that he “made some mistakes.” They are all serving time in Chivhu prison, which is one of eight prisons where our water and sanitation (“watsan”) team is working as part of MSF’s four-month project to address the serious malnutrition and health problems in some of Zimbabwe’s most affected prisons.

Too dangerous to stay, even more dangerous to go.

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT

I won’t pretend that this is a genuine letter 'from the field', as I have been back from Pakistan for a while now, following 15 months in the country as Head of Mission. So this piece may not be ‘hot off the press’, but it does benefit from having a period of reflection. As I’m sure you can imagine, there are a vast amount of things that I could write about.

Where is 'The Field'?

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

First of all, there are no fields involved in my work. Not of the grassy variety anyway. ‘The Field’ is an interesting term that is bandied around a great deal in development and humanitarian circles, and it is interpreted differently depending on where you are when you say it*.

“Nobody could take her dignity from her”

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

They came for the money. One of the many luxuries a gun affords a young man in North Kivu is that of time; time to mooch about, time to ask questions, time to observe. That week, a group of armed men loosely affiliated to a group overheard, whilst loitering on the periphery of a village, no doubt hungry and unpaid, that her family had sold a cow. They watched, made casual enquiries - and they plotted.

Week 2: Waiting for the rains

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Week 1: Looking for a dry spot

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:00:00 GMT

Mud, water and more mud

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:30:00 GMT

“There seems to be no end to this catastrophe”

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Battered Trucks and Donkey Tracks

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:00:00 GMT

This area is quite remote, sometimes insecure and very difficult to travel. MSF has hired battered local trucks to reduce the risks of car-jackings. The whole team consists of around 50 people, including logisticians, registrars, nurses, and drivers. We travel in convoy from one base to another, going in seven teams, vaccinating every day. An international team leader is in charge of each team, making sure that we go to the right villages and overlooking the vaccination.

For those who have fled Zimbabwe

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Hello everybody, here I am again, out with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for three months. This time I am in South Africa to assist Zimbabweans who have fled their country, particularly those affected by the cross-border cholera outbreak. We have a base up at the border in a small town called Musina, where we have mobile clinics providing medical aid to the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing the country.

The quick killer

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Dealing with cholera is different than other emergencies I have worked on. It was the speed of it that made it so different. When you enter an area with many people sick from cholera or a clinic completely overloaded with cholera patients, you know lives will soon be lost.

Christmas in Darfur

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:00:00 GMT

It’s going to be a funny sort of Christmas this year. Not because I’ll be working – if you’re a childless A&E nurse then you tend to find yourself working on Christmas Day (so that those with young families can spend it at home), and I’ve only had one “family” Christmas in the last six years. The reason that this Christmas will be particularly different for me is that I will be spending it working in Shangil Tobaya IDP (Internally Displaced Person) camp in Northern Darfur, Sudan.

Jill's Ethiopian Diary: Memories, good and bad.

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:00:00 GMT

I am nearing the end of my three month mission in Ethiopia in the Kambata and Tambaro regions on a malnutrition project. When I look back and reflect on the last three months there are many emotions and fond memories that I wish to hold on to for a very long time… and quite a few that I am sure I will remember, because it is important, but which are not happy ones.

Jill's Ethiopian Diary: Birth, barbecued maize and the weekly shop.

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Many more donkey and carts are seen on a daily basis now, laden with maize, cabbages, bananas and ginger going to and from markets. In most of the areas, there is now a visible reduction in the severe acute malnutrition admissions.

Essential healthcare amid the dust and desolation in Southeast Ethiopia

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Life in the Somali region of Ethiopia is tough. The rains have failed, food is running out and even the camels are dying of thirst.

Jill's Ethiopian Diary - Fighting the food crisis

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT

The journey from Shinshicho to Hadero takes thirty minutes along a pot-holed dirt road.

On the boat

Fri, 30 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

“We’re going to try it.” That is the conclusion. Tomorrow we’re going to go out in a boat with the mobile team. For the first time expats will join one of the national teams to carry out medical consultations and distributions. We have no idea how the authorities will react now that foreigners are also going out into the field.

Nearly the end

Thu, 15 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Traumatised

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Sunday, 12 May - Everyone on our team sees an average of more than 200 patients a day and many people are in shock or are experiencing trauma. There are confused people still searching for their families, children who have lost their parents, parents who have watched their children drown. In the evenings, I sit with my colleagues and everyone tells what they’ve heard and seen during the day. It is difficult for everyone. We are all tired and we sleep poorly.

Survival

Sun, 11 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Saturday, 11 May - We need to rent more boats. Every day the number of teams and amount of material grows and most places can only be reached by boat. I negotiate with a boat owner. He is a nice guy and is very glad to help us with our work. Just as all the other people here, he has a “I barely survived” story too.

Fear

Sat, 10 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Friday, 10 May - The weather got worse last night. Our team tried to sleep in the supply tent we had set up in the village earlier in the day. But in the middle of the night, it was no longer possible. Soaked to the bone and cold from the storm and rain, we ran to a nearby house.

Infection

Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Thursday, 9 May - The girl is seven years old. She has a big, ugly head wound from the moment a palm tree fell on top of her. Using unhygienic material, someone gave her emergency stitches. The wound is now terribly infected and she needs more medical help than our mobile team can offer. Her father is a fisherman and they lived in a house by the sea.

Rice

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Skeletons

Wed, 07 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Yangon

Tue, 06 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Radio News

Sun, 04 May 2008 19:00:00 GMT

Lost luggage

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Living in Palestine and working with the local people has provoked thoughts about my own relationship with material items and ideas of ownership. I’ve asked myself about the importance of material items, how much they mean in my life, how much my ideas of happiness and fulfillment are connected with what I have and what I own.

Speaking out

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Sometimes I’m speechless in the face of people’s suffering here. Words just don’t come to me. I listen and try to give people the time and the space they need to say what they have inside, to vent their sadness and frustration. I wonder how many of them have only told me about what’s happened to them.

Sink or swim in the Dirty River

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I'm woken up at 5.30 am by drums and trumpets. Undeterred by a heavy flooding, the local marching band has taken over the boats. In any other context this might be unusual but in the aptly named town of Riosucio (dirty river), the unusual is an everyday occurrence.

Sad, disappointed, angry, but not shocked

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Hard to say goodbye

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:00:00 GMT

There are some patients that you just can’t leave behind once the sessions have concluded. There are some that you feel you are going to miss, that you would like to see again, and usually the feelings are mutual.

If... if...

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Half of my patients are children who have faced a traumatic event such as an incursion and the other half are usually the mothers and close relatives of those who have been arrested. As patients, children suffer from nightmares, bedwetting, general fear and physical complaints, while adults show lack of interest in daily life, they can’t sleep or eat

Playing in the snow

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Palestine

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A Bundle of Babies

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Rain inside my collar

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

In this diary entry Nicola meets strong women and suspicious men.

The Power of Positive Thinking

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I'm writing this from Tam, the traditional tribal area of the Bol-Nuer tribes. We are doing three weeks of outreach work here; it's isolated, there are very few trees and it's the hottest place I have ever experienced in the world!

Impossible Choices...

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Condom stories

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

In this diary entry Nicola meets strong women and suspicious men.

A Town of Tukuls

Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

In Sri Lanka's turbulent Jaffna Peninsula

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

"We did a totally crazy transfer today of a guy who had been shot through the neck..."

A Day in the DRC

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Back from Nepal

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

For 11 years Nepal has been in the grip of a Maoist insurrection. To the tourist this is barely noticeable. The major urban centres have remained under Government control and trekkers and climbers have free passage through the rural areas - as long as they pay their dues.

Benish Bibi

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Benish Bibi is a survivor of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. She was the supervisor (lead nurse) for MSF’s paediatric inpatient ward in Kashmir.

Unexploded ordinance wreaks havoc in Chad

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Let me tell you about the Ade project I'm involved in. There's still plenty to do in our little frontier paradise. We're running a basic health care programme and a feeding programme for malnutrition.

From Galcayo Somalia ...

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

But what you don't realise is tuberculosis carries a lot of stigma - like AIDS - so they won't tell you if the child has been in contact with someone with TB, especially if it's a senior member of the family.

Human resources in the humanitarian frontline

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Lives Hanging in the Balance in Northern Kenya

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Marburg Disease in Angola

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

A Flying Watsan in Sudan

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

It was a Thursday last March that the call came from MSF. "Can you leave for Sudan on Sunday. There's an outbreak of cholera there..."

Isaac

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

"... When he first arrived he was too weak to stand and so to see him walking gives everyone hope."

In the ongoing crisis in Darfur

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

In Northern Uganda

Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT