Medical Doctor

Women who are forced from their homes are particularly vulnerable.

Inaccessibility to treatment and drug resistant bacteria are not the only factors that make tuberculosis challenging to address.

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.

It was the 7th of October, 9 days after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake followed by a 6-meter high tsunami struck and paralyzed Central Sulawesi. 
 
“The death toll (in Central Sulawesi) has risen to 1,900 and climbing,
My name is Achmad Yusuf Toba, oftentimes just referred to as Yutub.
Hilde De Clerk is one of MSF’s most experienced Ebola doctors and has been managing outbreaks of Ebola and similar viruses for more than 10 years.
Since August 2017, near 600,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar have crossed the border to escape violence there.
The first surprise was the sheer size of the attack on Marawi City by pro- Islamic State fighters. 
 
The crisis since – with 360,000 people displaced, and heavy combat into its fifth month – is equally unprecedent
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