Since Saturday 7 October, Herat Province in western Afghanistan has been hit by three powerful earthquakes as well as innumerable aftershocks of varyi...

Sarah was project coordinator at Doctors Without Borders’s Boost Hospital in the city of Lashkar Gar, Afghanistan. Here she shares her story.

Following the earthquake that struck Khost and Paktika provinces in Afghanistan on the night of 21 to 22 June, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans...

On a very busy measles ward, a baby struggles to breathe. The team does not have access to a ventilator, but instead use a technique more commonly ass...

Renny Anggia Julianti is an Indonesian Ob-Gynecologist. On her first mission in 2019, she was assigned in Khost maternity hospital, Afghanistan. And s...

Wong Poh Fei recounts breaking the news of her recruitment to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a first assignment in Sierr...

It was an unspoken understanding that a sick newborn’s life is fragile in this country and that the loss of a child is a common occurrence in many wom...

At Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Khost Maternity Hospital (also known as the ‘baby factory’), where roughly 50 babies are b...

When Mamman Mustapha joined the Doctors Without Borders team in Afghanistan, it was for a short assignment in a ‘relatively quiet’ part of the country...