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Voices from the Field
What better way to give you an insight into our activities on the ground, than to bring you the first-hand accounts by some of MSF's volunteers and patients around the world. Please feel free to comment and share widely.
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Blogs
My new friend ROSS
Emmett Kearney is a water and sanitation logistician from Chicago, whose family originally hail from Clare, Limerick and Mayo. He obtained his MSc at WEDC-Loughborough University, studying wa
Maeve in Karakalpakstan
From Co. Dublin, Maeve Lalor works as an Epidemiologist for the Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Directly observed treatment shortcourse (DOTS ) Plus project in Nukus, Uzbekistan.
MSF Diary: A Week in Fighting Rages in Abidjan
During a week of intense violence that preceded the arrest of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo on April 11, the MSF team working at the Abobo Sud Hospital in northern Abidjan was isol
Anaesthesia Tales
Dr. Mark Campbell is an Anaethetist from Co. Tyrone, currently on his first mission with MSF - an assignment split between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Patient stories
Syria: Patient testimonies of violence and abuse
These testimonies from injured people across Syria were collected by Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) staff between 30th January and 6th February 2012.
South Sudan: "They abducted my child and slit the throats of the two boys"
In the state of Jonglei, in South Sudan, civilians continue to bear the brunt of inter-communal fighting. These testimonies were collected from patients at MSF's hospital in Pibor.
“When the disease hits, it's life or death”
Moïse is thirty-three years old. He arrived a few hours ago, in a serious condition, at the cholera treatment centre in Thomassique, a small town in the Centre department in Haiti.
Somalia: Gearing up in Galgaduud
In large parts of south and central Somalia, where malnutrition rates are high, ongoing conflict makes it difficult for international organizations like MSF to operate at full capacity.
"I haven't seen our home region for over nine months"
As more than 2,000 Somalis cross the borders of their country into Kenya and Ethiopia every day in search of assistance, in Somalia itself unprecedented numbers of people are on the move in a de
