The Philippines: Medical and mental health needs continue after Typhoon Rai
From January to March 2022, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) mounted an emergency response in Dinagat Island Province and the ...
Natural disasters
Afghanistan
Ode to My Parents
Wong Poh Fei recounts breaking the news of her recruitment to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for a first assignment in Sierr...
Maternal health
Child health
Afghanistan
Breathe: The Story of Saleem
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...
Maternal health
Child health
Afghanistan
"You Cannot Change The Circumstances, But You Can Change Yourself"
At Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Khost Maternity Hospital (also known as the ‘baby factory’), where roughly 50 babies are b...
Maternal health
Child health
Ukraine
Ukraine: Urgent Humanitarian Race Against Time
Anja Wolz, Doctors Without Borders Emergency Coordinator currently based in Lviv, Ukraine, explains the urgency of this stage of the humanitarian resp...
War and conflict
Nigeria
Nursing in Nigeria: “The passion was just ignited in me"
An outbreak of Lassa Fever gave nurse Shirley Samson a passion for protecting her patients and colleagues. Since then, she’s worked through a pandemic...
Infectious diseases
Afghanistan
Nine months in Afghanistan
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...
War and conflict
Philippines
Typhoon Rai Response: Voices from the Field
Survivors and Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff share their stories about the impact of Typhoon Rai (locally known as Ode...
Natural disasters
Afghanistan
“It’s the lucky ones who reach us”: Inside Afghanistan’s child malnutrition crisis
Dr Mohammed is a Doctors Without Borders' medic who works at an Doctors Without Borders' hospital in Lashkar Gah, where hundreds of mothers and childr...
