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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
Life in Lebanon
Hello and welcome to my blog. My name is Aoife Doran. I am twenty-nine years old and I am a doctor from Ireland. I live in Dublin, my home city, and I enjoy running, hiking and cycling.
Letters from the field
Irish volunteers are currently 'on mission' in Democratic Republic Of Congo; Ethiopia; Haiti; India; Lebanon; Pakistan; Uganda; and South Sudan. Working in high-profile emergencies and the si
South Sudan Calling
Cormac is a GP from Co. Galway, and is currently working in MSF’s nutrition project in Bentiu Unity state, South Sudan.
Dispatches: Letters from the field
'Dispatches' is a quarterly magazine sent to our supporters in homes around Ireland. This magazine is written by MSF staff wor
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
Patient stories
DRC: Nine-year-old Eden wounded in Goma violence
Eden, a nine-year-old boy, was seriously injured in the recent fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and the M23 rebel group in Goma, eastern Congo.&
First patient cured of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Zimbabwe
In her home on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital city, 48-year-old Mary Marizani says that, although she has conquered multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), she now faces another challenge:
South Sudan: The stomach aches that can't be cured with pills
The mental stress of being a refugee can disable a person – even the whole family – making an already difficult situation even harder to cope with.
A night shift in a refugee camp in South Sudan
MSF’s Dr Roberto Scaini offers an insight in to a typical night shift working at MSF’s field hospital in Batil refugee camp:
