Blogs & Stories

Is it possible to personalize medical care when you have thousands of patients but limited resources? MSF nurses Darwin Diaz and Jose Vincent Pagarugan from the international humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors...

Women who are forced from their homes are particularly vulnerable. They have specific health needs that are exacerbated when they are displaced; women on the move lose access to healthcare. They may fall pregnant and give birth, and are at risk of...

When I was young, I've always asked my mom for medical toy sets. I had kidney basins and forceps of various colors and sizes, and a couple of stethoscopes. During playtime, my friends and I would pretend that we were in a hospital – making up...

Inaccessibility to treatment and drug resistant bacteria are not the only factors that make tuberculosis challenging to address. This is what I’ve learned when I was deployed in 2017 to Zhytomyr Region, Ukraine as Project Medical Referent for...

February, the month of love and beating hearts, always makes me contemplate the pacemaker in my chest. I had it in 2013, two months before Supertyphoon “Yolanda”— the tragedy that made me decide to return to humanitarian work for good. You see, I...