Blogs & Stories

Hey, it’s your birthday today! Happy Birthday! Thank you What do you want for your birthday? I just wish the war to be over No other wish this year Excerpt from a text conversation between me and a national staff doctor on her birthday *** When I...

Since war broke out in Yemen in March of 2015, Taiz has been the front line between two warring sides. The constant airstrikes and battles in Taiz destroyed numerous homes, separated families, took away innocent lives and displaced even more...

Dr. Federica Zamatto MSF medical coordinator for migration projects Body bags sadly aligned on the deck of the Bourbon Argos. With feet in the fuel, sour air, our team has been retrieving the bodies of 29 people killed by fuel exhalation, drowned in...

I am happy to return to Bossangoa of Central African Republic, which I came 2 years ago when the huge humanitarian crisis started. The fighting and violence decreased quite a lot but robbery and theft are still happening a lot in this country. The...

I recently had the difficult task of telling Ian Read, Pfizer’s CEO, that Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is rejecting the company’s offer to donate a significant number of pneumonia vaccine (PCV) doses for the children we...