“As I always say, MSF’s projects are a paradise for engineers. You can really build a latrine and a building, and people can really use it and benefit from it the next day. This is a very satisfying job.” Lucy LAU is a mechanical engineer from Hong Kong who joined MSF in 2011. In the same year,...
“As team leader of the mobile clinic, I need to know everything – not only about treating a patient as a doctor but also from budgeting to running the boat and other handyman’s work. I learned when to shift the boat’s horsepower depending on the river’s current, water level, or the weather.” Known...
“If there were no MSF, more mothers and their children, who should blossom like flowers, would have died.” Dr. AN Na, a Chinese gynaecologist, joined Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in 2011 and celebrated her 30th birthday during her first mission in Sierra Leone. On the day she turned 30, a woman...
As closed-door talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement resume in Singapore this week, international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is calling on negotiating countries to reject rules that threaten to dismantle internationally-agreed public health...
Recent floods in Mozambique’s Gaza province have devastated the city of Chokwe, putting the main hospitals and health structures out of action and leaving people in urgent need of medical care. In response, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are bringing in extra staff and medical supplies,...
Integrating aid into UN, AU political and military strategy will threaten Humanitarian Efforts Efforts underway at the United Nations to integrate humanitarian assistance into the international military campaign against opponents of Somalia’s government will further threaten the safe delivery of...
MSF teams have just completed a preventive cholera vaccination campaign in and around the refugee camps in Maban County, South Sudan. 105,000 refugees in four camps and 27,500 residents of the area were vaccinated, with the aim of preventing possible cholera cases. With the cooperation of the South...
In October 2011, Montserrat SERRA and Blanca THIEBAUT were abducted from the refugee camp Ifo 2 in Dadaab, Kenya, while working to help the most vulnerable Somali population. They were then transferred to Somalia, where they could still be held against their will. MSF restates its anger, condemning...
Dr Susanna Ericsson is currently working for Médecins Sans Frontières in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ongoing fighting between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in Katanga province has caused thousands of people to flee into the surrounding bush in fear of their lives. The medical...
Fighting between government forces and Mai-Mai militias in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo has caused thousands of people to flee their homes and hundreds to seek refuge at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Shamwana. For the past few weeks, around 500 people...
